How it was won
Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha won the World Cup in Macao. The event opened with groups, and the winners went into a 16-player knockout draw.
Wang came closest to losing. Darko Jorgic led him 3-1 in the quarter-finals before Wang won the last three games, and in the final Japan's Sora Matsushima led 3-2. Wang took the last two games 11-4, 11-8 to win 4-3, after a second game he won 18-16. Matsushima, the seventh seed, had beaten Truls Moregard 4-0 and Lin Yun-Ju 4-3 on the way.
Sun beat Wang Manyu 4-1 in an all-Chinese women's final, 11-9, 11-8, 13-11, 8-11, 11-7. Her hardest match was in the quarter-finals, where Egypt's Hana Goda took her to 13-11 in the seventh game. Sabine Winter, unseeded, beat Wang Yidi 4-0 to reach the semi-finals, where Sun beat her by the same score.