Singles, Men

Date	17 – 25 September 2000
Status	Olympic
Location	State Sports Centre, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	64 from 35 countries
Format	Round-robin qualifying pools, followed by single-elimination tournament. Top 16 seeded directly into single-elimination.

The men’s singles was expected to come down to the last two Chinese world champions, Kong Linghui, known as King Kong, and the 1996 gold medalist, Liu Guoliang and 1999 World Champion. Liu had failed two doping tests for testosterone after the 1999 World Championships, but was reinstated for the Sydney Olympics. The International Table Tennis Federation ( ITTF) cleared Liu’s name after a three-month-long investigation showed no evidence for exogenous origin of epitestosterone in Liu’s samples and declared that there was no doping offense. In the semi-finals Liu went out to the 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner in straight games. That set up the final between Kong and Waldner. They split the first four games but Kong raced ahead 10-1 in the final. Waldner fought back, but Kong finished strongly, winning the gold medal in five games.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC
1	Kong Linghui	CHN		Gold
2	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE		Silver
3	Liu Guoliang	CHN		Bronze
4	Jörgen Persson	SWE
=5	Jörg Roßkopf	GER
=5	Liu Guozheng	CHN
=5	Uladzimir Samsonau	BLR
=5	Werner Schlager	AUT
=9	Chiang Peng-Lung	TPE
=9	Christophe Legoût	FRA
=9	Damien Éloi	FRA
=9	Jean-Michel Saive	BEL
=9	Koji Matsushita	JPN
=9	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL
=9	Timo Boll	GER
=9	Toshio Tasaki	JPN
=17	Chang Yen-Shu	TPE
=17	Cheung Yuk	HKG
=17	Danny Heister	NED
=17	Jean-Philippe Gatien	FRA
=17	Johnny Huang	CAN
=17	Kallinikos Kreangka	GRE
=17	Kim Taek-Su	KOR
=17	Lee Cheol-Seung	KOR
=17	Peter Franz	GER
=17	Peter Karlsson	SWE
=17	Philippe Saive	BEL
=17	Seiko Iseki	JPN
=17	Trinko Keen	NED
=17	Yu Seung-Min	KOR
=17	Zoran Primorac	CRO
=17	Petr Korbel	CZE
=33	Adrian Crișan	ROU
=33	Yinghua Cheng	USA
=33	Chetan Baboor	IND
=33	David Zhuang	USA
=33	Ding Yi	AUT
=33	El-Sayed Lashin	EGY
=33	Hugo Hoyama	BRA
=33	Josef Plachý	CZE
=33	Song Liu	ARG
=33	Mark Smythe	AUS
=33	Matthew Syed	GBR
=33	Daniel Tsiokas	GRE
=33	Segun Toriola	NGR
=33	Slobodan Grujić	SCG
=33	Tomasz Krzeszewski	POL
=33	Yauhen Shchatinin	BLR
=49	Anton Suseno	INA
=49	Ashraf Helmy	EGY
=49	Augusto Morales	CHI
=49	Francisco Arado	CUB
=49	Gdara Hamam	TUN
=49	Hamad Al-Hammadi	QAT
=49	Patrick Sahajasein	MRI
=49	Jorge Gambra	CHI
=49	Kurt Liu	CAN
=49	Leung Chu Yan	HKG
=49	Majidreza Ehteshamzadeh	IRI
=49	Peter Akinlabi	NGR
=49	Peter Jackson	NZL
=49	Renier Sosa	CUB
=49	Russ Lavale	AUS
=49	Simon Gerada	AUS

Preliminary Round (17 – 20 September 2000)

Group A (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Kallinikos Kreangka	GRE	2	0	6	0	126	68
2	El-Sayed Lashin	EGY	1	1	3	3	100	124
3	Anton Suseno	INA	0	2	0	6	96	130

Match #1	Kallinikos Kreangka	GRE	3 – 0 21-10, 21-10, 21-15	Anton Suseno	INA
Match #2	El-Sayed Lashin	EGY	3 – 0 22-20, 24-22, 21-19	Anton Suseno	INA
Match #3	Kallinikos Kreangka	GRE	3 – 0 21-6, 21-9, 21-18	El-Sayed Lashin	EGY

Group B (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Jörg Roßkopf	GER	2	0	6	0	126	69
2	David Zhuang	USA	1	1	3	4	110	127
3	Ashraf Helmy	EGY	0	2	1	6	98	138

Match #1	Jörg Roßkopf	GER	3 – 0 21-8, 21-11, 21-15	Ashraf Helmy	EGY
Match #2	Jörg Roßkopf	GER	3 – 0 21-15, 21-8, 21-12	David Zhuang	USA
Match #3	David Zhuang	USA	3 – 1 21-11, 21-16, 12-21, 21-16	Ashraf Helmy	EGY

Group C (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Petr Korbel	CZE	2	0	6	1	139	107
2	Chetan Baboor	IND	1	1	4	3	137	138
3	Peter Jackson	NZL	0	2	0	6	101	132

Match #1	Petr Korbel	CZE	3 – 1 13-21, 21-17, 21-16, 21-14	Chetan Baboor	IND
Match #2	Chetan Baboor	IND	3 – 0 25-23, 21-18, 23-21	Peter Jackson	NZL
Match #3	Petr Korbel	CZE	3 – 0 21-11, 21-13, 21-15	Peter Jackson	NZL

Group D (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Johnny Huang	CAN	2	0	6	2	160	123
2	Segun Toriola	NGR	1	1	5	4	165	163
3	Renier Sosa	CUB	0	2	1	6	106	145

Match #1	Johnny Huang	CAN	3 – 0 21-16, 21-12, 21-12	Renier Sosa	CUB
Match #2	Johnny Huang	CAN	3 – 2 21-12, 12-21, 22-24, 21-19, 21-7	Segun Toriola	NGR
Match #3	Segun Toriola	NGR	3 – 1 21-19, 19-21, 21-18, 21-8	Renier Sosa	CUB

Group E (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL	2	0	6	2	161	130
2	Adrian Crișan	ROU	1	1	5	3	155	133
3	Simon Gerada	AUS	0	2	0	6	74	127

Match #1	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL	3 – 2 15-21, 21-16, 19-21, 21-16, 21-18	Adrian Crișan	ROU
Match #2	Adrian Crișan	ROU	3 – 0 21-9, 21-16, 21-11	Simon Gerada	AUS
Match #3	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL	3 – 0 21-8, 21-10, 22-20	Simon Gerada	AUS

Group F (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Seiko Iseki	JPN	2	0	6	1	142	103
2	Yinghua Cheng	USA	1	1	4	3	135	115
3	Francisco Arado	CUB	0	2	0	6	67	126

Match #1	Seiko Iseki	JPN	3 – 0 21-7, 21-7, 21-17	Francisco Arado	CUB
Match #2	Seiko Iseki	JPN	3 – 1 16-21, 21-18, 21-17, 21-16	Yinghua Cheng	USA
Match #3	Yinghua Cheng	USA	3 – 0 21-8, 21-14, 21-14	Francisco Arado	CUB

Group G (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Toshio Tasaki	JPN	2	0	6	1	137	118
2	Josef Plachý	CZE	1	1	3	3	113	107
3	Jorge Gambra	CHI	0	2	1	6	112	137

Match #1	Toshio Tasaki	JPN	3 – 0 21-14, 21-19, 21-17	Josef Plachý	CZE
Match #2	Josef Plachý	CZE	3 – 0 21-16, 21-14, 21-14	Jorge Gambra	CHI
Match #3	Toshio Tasaki	JPN	3 – 1 21-17, 11-21, 21-15, 21-15	Jorge Gambra	CHI

Group H (17 – 19 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Cheung Yuk	HKG	2	0	6	3	182	152
2	Hugo Hoyama	BRA	1	1	5	3	155	145
3	Kurt Liu	CAN	0	2	1	6	105	145

Match #1	Hugo Hoyama	BRA	3 – 0 21-16, 21-16, 21-13	Kurt Liu	CAN
Match #2	Cheung Yuk	HKG	3 – 1 21-15, 21-9, 19-21, 21-15	Kurt Liu	CAN
Match #3	Cheung Yuk	HKG	3 – 2 18-21, 21-17, 19-21, 21-15, 21-18	Hugo Hoyama	BRA

Group I (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	2	0	6	0	127	88
2	Mark Smythe	AUS	1	1	3	5	128	158
3	Leung Chu Yan	HKG	0	2	2	6	143	152

Match #1	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	3 – 0 21-9, 22-20, 21-19	Leung Chu Yan	HKG
Match #2	Mark Smythe	AUS	3 – 2 21-18, 10-21, 14-21, 21-15, 22-20	Leung Chu Yan	HKG
Match #3	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	3 – 0 21-5, 21-18, 21-17	Mark Smythe	AUS

Group J (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Trinko Keen	NED	2	0	6	1	144	75
2	Daniel Tsiokas	GRE	1	1	4	3	118	126
3	Majidreza Ehteshamzadeh	IRI	0	2	0	6	65	126

Match #1	Trinko Keen	NED	3 – 0 21-4, 21-11, 21-5	Majidreza Ehteshamzadeh	IRI
Match #2	Daniel Tsiokas	GRE	3 – 0 21-19, 21-13, 21-13	Majidreza Ehteshamzadeh	IRI
Match #3	Trinko Keen	NED	3 – 1 21-9, 18-21, 21-15, 21-10	Daniel Tsiokas	GRE

Group K (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Danny Heister	NED	2	0	6	0	126	90
2	Tomasz Krzeszewski	POL	1	1	3	3	112	107
3	Russ Lavale	AUS	0	2	0	6	85	126

Match #1	Danny Heister	NED	3 – 0 21-13, 21-19, 21-17	Tomasz Krzeszewski	POL
Match #2	Tomasz Krzeszewski	POL	3 – 0 21-16, 21-11, 21-17	Russ Lavale	AUS
Match #3	Danny Heister	NED	3 – 0 21-9, 21-15, 21-17	Russ Lavale	AUS

Group L (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Lee Cheol-Seung	KOR	2	0	6	2	155	132
2	Slobodan Grujić	SCG	1	1	5	3	152	136
3	Peter Akinlabi	NGR	0	2	0	6	87	126

Match #1	Slobodan Grujić	SCG	3 – 0 21-14, 21-12, 21-18	Peter Akinlabi	NGR
Match #2	Lee Cheol-Seung	KOR	3 – 0 21-16, 21-10, 21-17	Peter Akinlabi	NGR
Match #3	Lee Cheol-Seung	KOR	3 – 2 21-11, 21-19, 15-21, 14-21, 21-17	Slobodan Grujić	SCG

Group M (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Timo Boll	GER	2	0	6	1	143	99
2	Song Liu	ARG	1	1	4	4	137	143
3	Hamad Al-Hammadi	QAT	0	2	1	6	101	139

Match #1	Timo Boll	GER	3 – 1 21-9, 17-21, 21-12, 21-19	Song Liu	ARG
Match #2	Song Liu	ARG	3 – 1 21-16, 13-21, 21-12, 21-14	Hamad Al-Hammadi	QAT
Match #3	Timo Boll	GER	3 – 0 21-14, 21-12, 21-12	Hamad Al-Hammadi	QAT

Group N (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Chang Yen-Shu	TPE	2	0	6	0	126	78
2	Ding Yi	AUT	1	1	3	3	113	99
3	Gdara Hamam	TUN	0	2	0	6	64	126

Match #1	Chang Yen-Shu	TPE	3 – 0 21-10, 21-11, 21-7	Gdara Hamam	TUN
Match #2	Chang Yen-Shu	TPE	3 – 0 21-19, 21-13, 21-18	Ding Yi	AUT
Match #3	Ding Yi	AUT	3 – 0 21-9, 21-17, 21-10	Gdara Hamam	TUN

Group O (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Peter Franz	GER	2	0	6	0	128	64	Q
2	Matthew Syed	GBR	1	1	3	3	96	85
3	Patrick Sahajasein	MRI	0	2	0	6	51	126

Match #1	Peter Franz	GER	3 – 0 21-8, 21-4, 23-21	Matthew Syed	GBR
Match #2	Peter Franz	GER	3 – 0 21-9, 21-10, 21-12	Patrick Sahajasein	MRI
Match #3	Matthew Syed	GBR	3 – 0 21-3, 21-8, 21-9	Patrick Sahajasein	MRI

Group P (17 – 20 September 2000)

Winner in each group advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Wins	Losses	Games For	GA	Points For	PA
1	Philippe Saive	BEL	2	0	6	1	145	107	Q
2	Yauhen Shchatinin	BLR	1	1	4	3	141	118
3	Augusto Morales	CHI	0	2	0	6	65	126

Match #1	Yauhen Shchatinin	BLR	3 – 0 21-13, 21-10, 21-13	Augusto Morales	CHI
Match #2	Philippe Saive	BEL	3 – 0 21-10, 21-8, 21-11	Augusto Morales	CHI
Match #3	Philippe Saive	BEL	3 – 1 18-21, 21-18, 21-19, 22-20	Yauhen Shchatinin	BLR

Round One (21 September 2000)

Winner of each match advanced to next round.

Match #1	Kong Linghui	CHN	3 – 0 21-14, 21-12, 21-16	Johnny Huang	CAN
Match #2	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL	3 – 0 21-5, 21-17, 21-13	Jean-Philippe Gatien	FRA
Match #3	Timo Boll	GER	3 – 1 21-11, 15-21, 21-18, 21-17	Kim Taek-Su	KOR
Match #4	Werner Schlager	AUT	3 – 2 13-21, 8-21, 21-19, 21-19, 21-12	Danny Heister	NED
Match #5	Jörgen Persson	SWE	3 – 1 21-16, 21-15, 16-21, 21-18	Peter Franz	GER
Match #6	Koji Matsushita	JPN	3 – 0 22-20, 21-19, 21-17	Cheung Yuk	HKG
Match #7	Liu Guozheng	CHN	3 – 2 21-14, 21-16, 18-21, 17-21, 21-15	Philippe Saive	BEL
Match #8	Chiang Peng-Lung	TPE	3 – 0 25-23, 21-12, 24-22	Kallinikos Kreangka	GRE
Match #9	Liu Guoliang	CHN	3 – 0 21-14, 22-20, 21-19	Trinko Keen	NED
Match #10	Damien Éloi	FRA	3 – 1 21-14, 11-21, 21-6, 22-20	Lee Cheol-Seung	KOR
Match #11	Jörg Roßkopf	GER	3 – 2 20-22, 21-19, 21-17, 19-21, 21-12	Peter Karlsson	SWE
Match #12	Toshio Tasaki	JPN	3 – 0 25-23, 21-16, 21-17	Zoran Primorac	CRO
Match #13	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE	3 – 1 21-23, 21-13, 21-15, 21-17	Seiko Iseki	JPN
Match #14	Jean-Michel Saive	BEL	3 – 0 21-11, 21-13, 21-17	Petr Korbel	CZE
Match #15	Christophe Legoût	FRA	3 – 2 21-15, 21-23, 10-21, 25-23, 21-17	Yu Seung-Min	KOR
Match #16	Uladzimir Samsonau	BLR	3 – 0 21-14, 23-21, 21-14	Chang Yen-Shu	TPE

Round Two (22 September 2000)

Winner of each match advanced to next round.

Match #1	Kong Linghui	CHN	3 – 2 18-21, 21-17, 21-10, 20-22, 21-14	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL
Match #2	Werner Schlager	AUT	3 – 2 24-22, 19-21, 17-21, 21-13, 21-16	Timo Boll	GER
Match #3	Jörgen Persson	SWE	3 – 0 21-14, 21-13, 21-19	Koji Matsushita	JPN
Match #4	Liu Guozheng	CHN	3 – 0 21-11, 21-13, 21-19	Chiang Peng-Lung	TPE
Match #5	Liu Guoliang	CHN	3 – 2 19-21, 13-21, 22-20, 21-9, 21-13	Damien Éloi	FRA
Match #6	Jörg Roßkopf	GER	3 – 2 17-21, 21-15, 21-13, 19-21, 21-14	Toshio Tasaki	JPN
Match #7	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE	3 – 1 21-14, 19-21, 21-18, 21-15	Jean-Michel Saive	BEL
Match #8	Uladzimir Samsonau	BLR	3 – 0 21-11, 21-17, 21-12	Christophe Legoût	FRA

Quarter-Finals (23 September 2000)

Winner of each match advanced to next round.

Match #1	Kong Linghui	CHN	3 – 2 21-14, 13-21, 20-22, 21-10, 21-14	Werner Schlager	AUT
Match #2	Jörgen Persson	SWE	3 – 1 14-21, 21-18, 21-16, 21-19	Liu Guozheng	CHN
Match #3	Liu Guoliang	CHN	3 – 0 21-11, 21-14, 21-7	Jörg Roßkopf	GER
Match #4	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE	3 – 2 20-22, 18-21, 21-14, 21-18, 21-19	Uladzimir Samsonau	BLR

Semi-Finals (24 September 2000)

Winner of each match advanced to next round.

Match #1	Kong Linghui	CHN	3 – 1 21-12, 13-21, 21-16, 21-13	Jörgen Persson	SWE
Match #2	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE	3 – 0 21-19, 21-16, 21-19	Liu Guoliang	CHN

Final Round (25 September 2000)

Match 1/2	Kong Linghui	CHN	3 – 2 21-16, 21-19, 17-21, 14-21, 21-13	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE
Match 3/4	Liu Guoliang	CHN	3 – 1 21-18, 19-21, 21-14, 21-13	Jörgen Persson	SWE