The 2026 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup was the 35th edition of the Asian Cup. It was held from 4 to 8 February 2026 at the Wuyuan River Stadium in Haikou, China. Players who reach the semifinals in this tournament will qualify for the 2026 ITTF World Cup.
Playing System The detailed rules for the playing system of the 2026 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup are as follows:
Seeding for this event will be based on the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Singles Rankings published in week 6 of 2026 (3 February 2026). The tournament will be conducted in two stages.
The first stage is a group round. Thirty-two players will be divided into 8 groups of 4 players each, playing a round-robin within their group. The group draw method is as follows: the 8 highest-ranked players will be placed into Groups A to H in order; the remaining players will be allocated to the groups in sets of four according to their ranking using a modified 'snake' system. To ensure fairness, players from the same national or regional association will be drawn into different groups during the draw. After the group matches, the top two players from each group will advance to the second stage.
The second stage is a knockout stage, conducted as a single-elimination tournament. The draw for the knockout stage has specific rules: the winner of Group A is fixed in position 1, and the winner of Group B is fixed in position 16; the winners of Groups C and D will be drawn by lot into positions 8 or 9; the winners of Groups E to H will be randomly drawn into positions 4, 5, 12, or 13. The runners-up from each group will be randomly drawn into the remaining positions, with one key restriction: the two players from the same group in the first stage must be drawn into different halves of the knockout stage draw. Additionally, the association avoidance rule will not be applied in the knockout stage.
Regarding the match format, all matches in the first-stage group round will be best-of-five games. In the second stage, the round of 16 matches will be best-of-five games, while the quarterfinals, semifinals, and final will be best-of-seven games.
Medalists Men's Singles Wang Chuqin Tomokazu Harimoto Shunsuke TogamiWomen's Singles Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu Kuai Man
Seeds The seeding will be based on the ITTF World Ranking lists published prior to the event. The seeded players will be as follows:
SeedPlayersMen'sWomen's1 Wang Chuqin Sun Yingsha2 Lin Shidong Wang Manyu3 Tomokazu Harimoto Chen Xingtong4 Xiang Peng Kuai Man5 Jang Woo-jin Wang Yidi6 Shunsuke Togami Miwa Harimoto7 Zhou Qihao Chen Yi8 Yukiya Uda Hina Hayata9 Chen Yuanyu Honoka Hashimoto10 Hiroto Shinozuka Shin Yu-bin11 Yuta Tanaka Miyu Nagasaki12 Chen Junsong Kim Na-yeong13 Wong Chun Ting Zeng Jian14 Feng Yi-hsin Doo Hoi Kem15 Kirill Gerassimenko Kaho Akae16 Kuo Guan-hong Manika Batra
SeedPlayersMen'sWomen's17 Liao Cheng-ting Li Yu-jhun18 Snehit Suravajjula Yeh Yi-tian19 Chang Yu-an Su Tsz Tung20 Akash Pal Chien Tung-chuan21 Lam Siu Hang Orawan Paranang22 Ankur Bhattacharjee Huang Yu-jie23 Pang Yew En Koen Suthasini Sawettabut24 Izaac Quek Ser Lin Qian25 Alan Kurmangaliyev Swastika Ghosh26 Wong Qi Shen Zauresh Akasheva27 Kwan Man Ho Tan Zhao Yun28 Ho Kwan Kit Sarvinoz Mirkadirova29 Mohammed Abdulwahhab Hend Zaza30 Abdulaziz Bu Shulaybi Aya Majdi31 Ali Alkhadrawi Arujan Kamalova32 Aidos Kenzhikulov Mariana Sahakian
Men's Singles Group Stage
Group 1 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Wang Chuqin 3 3 0 9 1 6 Akash Pal 3 2 1 6 5 5 Feng Yi-hsin 3 1 2 6 6 4 Mohammed Abdulwahhab 3 0 3 0 9 3
Group 2 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Lin Shidong 3 3 0 9 1 6 Kuo Guan-hong 3 2 1 6 4 5 Snehit Suravajjula 3 1 2 3 8 4 Abdulaziz Bu Shulaybi 3 0 3 4 9 3
Group 3 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Wong Chun Ting 3 3 0 9 5 6 Tomokazu Harimoto 3 2 1 7 4 5 Liao Cheng-ting 3 1 2 5 6 4 Aidos Kenzhikulov 3 0 3 3 9 3
Group 4 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Xiang Peng 3 3 0 9 1 6 Chang Yu-an 3 2 1 7 5 5 Kirill Gerassimenko 3 1 2 4 6 4 Ali Alkhadrawi 3 0 3 1 9 3
Group 5 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Hiroto Shinozuka 3 3 0 9 2 6 Izaac Quek 3 2 1 6 5 5 Kwan Man Ho 3 1 2 3 6 4 Jang Woo-jin 3 0 3 4 9 2
Group 6 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Shunsuke Togami 3 3 0 9 1 6 Alan Kurmangaliyev 3 1 2 5 6 4 Chen Yuanyu 3 1 2 5 7 4 Ankur Bhattacharjee 3 1 2 3 8 4
Group 7 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Zhou Qihao 3 3 0 9 1 6 Yuta Tanaka 3 2 1 6 5 5 Pang Yew En Koen 3 1 2 5 7 4 Ho Kwan Kit 3 0 3 2 9 3
Group 8 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Yukiya Uda 3 2 1 8 4 5 Lam Siu Hang 3 2 1 8 5 5 Chen Junsong 3 2 1 6 7 5 Wong Qi Shen 3 0 3 3 9 3
Knockout Stage
Women's Singles Group Stage
Group 1 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Sun Yingsha 3 3 0 9 0 6 Yeh Yi-tian 3 2 1 6 3 5 Manika Batra 3 1 2 3 6 4 Hend Zaza 3 0 3 0 9 0
Group 2 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Wang Manyu 3 3 0 9 0 6 Kaho Akae 3 1 2 3 6 4 Li Yu-jhun 3 1 2 3 6 4 Aya Majdi 3 0 3 0 9 3
Group 3 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Chen Xingtong 3 3 0 9 1 6 Doo Hoi Kem 3 2 1 7 4 5 Chien Tung-chuan 3 1 2 4 7 4 Arujan Kamalova 3 0 3 1 9 3
Group 4 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Kuai Man 3 3 0 9 0 6 Su Tsz Tung 3 2 1 6 4 5 Zeng Jian 3 1 2 4 6 4 Mariana Sahakian 3 0 3 0 9 3
Group 5 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Miyu Nagasaki 3 3 0 9 1 6 Wang Yidi 3 2 1 7 3 5 Ser Lin Qian 3 1 2 3 6 4 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova 3 0 3 0 9 3
Group 6 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Miwa Harimoto 3 3 0 9 3 6 Kim Na-yeong 3 2 1 7 4 5 Suthasini Sawettabut 3 1 2 4 6 4 Swastika Ghosh 3 0 3 2 9 3
Group 7 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Honoka Hashimoto 3 3 0 9 1 6 Chen Yi 3 2 1 7 3 5 Orawan Paranang 3 1 2 3 6 4 Tan Zhao Yun 3 0 3 0 9 3
Group 8 PlayerMWLGWGLPts Hina Hayata 3 3 0 9 4 6 Shin Yu-bin 3 2 1 8 5 5 Huang Yu-jie 3 1 2 4 6 4 Zauresh Akasheva 3 0 3 2 9 3
Knockout Stage
References
External links ITTF official Website