In the singles competition, Fan Zhendong won the men's singles title with Swedish dark horse Moregold who kept a clean sheet in the final, while Manyu Wang won the women's singles title by defeating Sun Yingsha in six sets. In the doubles competition, she successfully defended the women's doubles champion and partnered with Wang to win the mixed doubles champion. Sweden once again stood on the highest podium of men's doubles in the World Table Tennis Championships after 30 years.

With Fan Zhendong's 4-0 sweep of Swedish teenager Moregold, the men's singles champion that fans were most worried about before the game was finally included in Guoping, and Guoping achieved nine consecutive championships in men's singles. In this World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Ping scored 4 gold 1 6 silver and 6 bronze, and China Red flew in Houston. The only champion Guo Ping lost was the men's doubles champion, which was won by the Swedish team Volker/Carlsson.