How it was won
Hugo Calderano won the World Cup in Macao, the first player from the Americas to do so. The Brazilian, seeded fifth, lost the first game of the final to the top seed, Lin Shidong, and then won four in a row, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-4, 11-5. Sun Yingsha beat Kuai Man 4-0 in the women's final, 11-9, 11-6, 11-9, 11-6.
Calderano beat Tomokazu Harimoto 4-1 in the quarter-finals and then the second seed, Wang Chuqin, 4-3 in the semi-finals, taking the seventh game 12-10. Kuai came from two games down to beat the second seed, Wang Manyu, in the quarter-finals and from 2-0 down again to beat Mima Ito 4-3 in the semi-finals.