World Championships 2009

Mens Doubles Results

The World Championships 2009.
The world's best come together in Yokohama, Japan ...

World Championships 2009 logo

The World Table Tennis Championships first took place in 1926 in London, England.

However, since 2000, the World Table Tennis Championship has been split into two separate competitions.

Team events are now held in even numbered years, whilst individual events (singles and doubles) are held in odd numbered years.

So let's look at what events are included ...

Events included

The World Championships 2009 events are ...

Format of events

Individual Events ...

Individual events are played on a knockout basis and all matches are the best of 7 games.

There are 128 places in the first round proper of the men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles events, but not more than 64 places in the first round proper of men's and women's doubles events.

In doubles events, both players must be from the same Association.

Numbers

Each Association is entitled to 5 entries in each singles event, with 1 additional entry in the appropriate event for each place held by its player in the first 10 places of the first issue of the ITTF world ranking list in the year of the Championships, with up to 7 players in each individual event.

The host Association may enter up to 7 pairs in the mixed doubles and 7 players in each other individual event.

Different players may be entered in each doubles event. However, the number of players entered in doubles must not exceed the number of players entered in the corresponding singles.

In mixed doubles the number of pairs entered must not exceed the number of players nominated in the men's or women's singles, whichever is the lower.

Players of the same Association shall be separated in preliminary rounds, groups and in the first round of the draw, but not in further rounds.

2007 winners

The last individual World Table Tennis Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia in May 2007 and the winners were ...

Men's Singles - Wang Liqin (China)
Women's Singles - Guo Yue (China)
Men's Doubles - Ma Lin & Chen Qi (China)
Women's Doubles - Zhang Yining & Wang Nan (China)
Mixed Doubles - Guo Yue & Wang Liqin (China)

World Championships 2009

Men's Doubles Event Results

First Round (Last 64)

Thursday 30 April 2009

Winners	Result	Losers
CHEN Qi WANG Hao CHN	4-1	MATSUDAIRA Kenta NIWA Koki JPN
CHIANG Hung-Chieh CHIANG Peng-Lung TPE	4-2	CARNEROS Alfredo DURAN Marc ESP
APOLONIA Tiago MONTEIRO Joao POR	4-1	ABRAMOV Isaak SHARON Yaniv ISR
BLASZCZYK Lucjan WANG Zeng Yi POL	4-1	KUCHUK Aleksandr PLATONOU Pavel BLR
CHUANG Chih-Yuan WU Chih-Chi TPE	4-2	DANIEL Artur KOSOWSKI Jakub POL
MATSUDAIRA Kenji UEDA Jin JPN	4-3	BAUM Patrick FEJER-KONNERTH Zoltan GER
GAVLAS Antonin KORBEL Petr CZE	4-0	BEKNAZAROV Yermek SURTUBAYEV Marat KAZ
OH Sang Eun RYU Seung Min KOR	4-0	SOINE Toni TAMMINEN Timo FIN
HAO Shuai ZHANG Jike CHN	4-0	DAVIS Kyle HENZELL William AUS
GIONIS Panagiotis GRE PAPAGEORGIOU Konstantinos	4-2	BOBOCICA Mihai YANG Min ITA
KEINATH Thomas SEREDA Peter SVK	4-0	CAI Xiao Li PANG Xue Jie SIN
OVTCHAROV Dimitrij STEGER Bastian GER	4-1	HINDERSSON Mikkel STERNBERG Kasper DEN
PERSSON Jorgen SVENSSON Robert SWE	4-2	DINH Quang Linh DOAN Kien Quoc VIE
ROGIERS Benjamin VOSTES Yannick BEL	w/o	GACINA Andrej TAN Ruiwu HRV
LEBESSON Emmanuel MATTENET Adrien FRA	4-1	ILLAS Erik PISTEJ Lubomir SVK
CHEUNG Yuk LI Ching HKG	4-0	ASSAR Omar NADIM Ahmed EGY

KISHIKAWA Seiya MIZUTANI Jun JPN	4-1	JANCARIK Lubomir SIMONCIK Josef CZE
KIM Jung Hoon LEE Jin Kwon KOR	4-1	CHEN Chien-An CHUAN Che-Wei TPE
MONTEIRO Thiago TSUBOI Gustavo BRA	4-2	LIU Song TABACHNIK Pablo ARG
ACHANTA Sharath Kamal SAHA Subhajit IND	4-0	GRUJIC Slobodan KARAKASEVIC Aleksandar SRB
GERELL Par LUNDQVIST Jens SWE	4-1	SANGUANSIN Phakpoom SANGUANSIN Phuchong THA
KUZMIN Fedor RUBTSOV Igor RUS	4-3	DIDUKH Aleksandr ZHMUDENKO Yaroslav UKR
NEKHVEDOVICH Vitaly SAMSONOV Vladimir BLR	4-0	SLATINSEK Uros TOKIC Bojan SVN
GAO Ning YANG Zi SIN	4-3	VANG Bora ZENG Cem TUR
JIANG Tianyi TANG Peng HKG	4-1	LIN Ju VILA Juan Antonio DOM
HE Zhi Wen MACHADO Carlos ESP	4-3	HOYAMA Hugo MATSUMOTO Cazuo BRA
AHADI Mehran MALMIRI Vahed IRI	4-1	ALI SALEH Ahmed LASHIN El-Sayed EGY
PRIMORAC Zoran TOSIC Roko HRV	4-1	SMIRNOV Aleksandr VAINULA Vallot EST
FREITAS Marcos SILVA Andre POR	4-2	CHEN Weixing GARDOS Robert AUT
HABESOHN Daniel PRESSLMAYER Bernhard AUT	4-3	CRISAN Adrian FILIMON Andrei ROU
JOO Se Hyuk SEO Hyun Deok KOR	4-1	PAYKOV Mikhail SKACHKOV Kirill RUS
MA Long XU Xin CHN	4-0	JEVTOVIC Marko PETE Zolt SRB

Second Round (Last 32)

Friday 1 May 2009

Winners	Result	Losers
CHEN Qi WANG Hao CHN	4-0	CHIANG Hung-Chieh CHIANG Peng-Lung TPE
BLASZCZYK Lucjan WANG Zeng Yi POL	4-3	APOLONIA Tiago MONTEIRO Joao POR
MATSUDAIRA Kenji UEDA Jin JPN	4-1	CHUANG Chih-Yuan WU Chih-Chi TPE
OH Sang Eun RYU Seung Min KOR	4-3	GAVLAS Antonin KORBEL Petr CZE
HAO Shuai ZHANG Jike CHN	4-0	GIONIS Panagiotis GRE PAPAGEORGIOU Konstantinos
OVTCHAROV Dimitrij STEGER Bastian GER	4-0	KEINATH Thomas SEREDA Peter SVK
PERSSON Jorgen SVENSSON Robert SWE	4-0	ROGIERS Benjamin VOSTES Yannick BEL
CHEUNG Yuk LI Ching HKG	4-2	LEBESSON Emmanuel MATTENET Adrien FRA

KISHIKAWA Seiya MIZUTANI Jun JPN	4-1	KIM Jung Hoon LEE Jin Kwon KOR
MONTEIRO Thiago TSUBOI Gustavo BRA	4-3	ACHANTA Sharath Kamal SAHA Subhajit IND
KUZMIN Fedor RUBTSOV Igor RUS	4-1	GERELL Par LUNDQVIST Jens SWE
GAO Ning YANG Zi SIN	4-1	NEKHVEDOVICH Vitaly SAMSONOV Vladimir BLR
JIANG Tianyi TANG Peng HKG	4-1	HE Zhi Wen MACHADO Carlos ESP
PRIMORAC Zoran TOSIC Roko HRV	4-0	AHADI Mehran MALMIRI Vahed IRI
FREITAS Marcos SILVA Andre POR	4-2	HABESOHN Daniel PRESSLMAYER Bernhard AUT
MA Long XU Xin CHN	4-2	JOO Se Hyuk SEO Hyun Deok KOR

Third Round (Last 16)

Saturday 2 May 2009

Winners	Result	Losers
CHEN Qi WANG Hao CHN	4-2	BLASZCZYK Lucjan WANG Zeng Yi POL
OH Sang Eun RYU Seung Min KOR	4-2	MATSUDAIRA Kenji UEDA Jin JPN
HAO Shuai ZHANG Jike CHN	4-2	OVTCHAROV Dimitrij STEGER Bastian GER
CHEUNG Yuk LI Ching HKG	4-3	PERSSON Jorgen SVENSSON Robert SWE

KISHIKAWA Seiya MIZUTANI Jun JPN	4-2	MONTEIRO Thiago TSUBOI Gustavo BRA
GAO Ning YANG Zi SIN	4-3	KUZMIN Fedor RUBTSOV Igor RUS
JIANG Tianyi TANG Peng HKG	4-3	PRIMORAC Zoran TOSIC Roko HRV
MA Long XU Xin CHN	4-1	FREITAS Marcos SILVA Andre POR

Quarter Finals

Sunday 3 May 2009

Winners	Result	Losers
CHEN Qi WANG Hao CHN	4-2	OH Sang Eun RYU Seung Min KOR
13-11, 11-7, 11-9, 8-11 8-11, 11-9

HAO Shuai ZHANG Jike CHN	w/o	CHEUNG Yuk LI Ching HKG


KISHIKAWA Seiya MIZUTANI Jun JPN	4-2	GAO Ning YANG Zi SIN
9-11, 11-2, 11-4, 4-11 11-5, 13-11

MA Long XU Xin CHN	4-1	JIANG Tianyi TANG Peng HKG
11-6, 11-6, 11-13, 11-1 11-7

Semi Finals

Monday 4 May 2009

Winners	Result	Losers
CHEN Qi WANG Hao CHN	4-1	HAO Shuai ZHANG Jike CHN
9-11, 11-4, 13-11, 11-7, 11-9

MA Long XU Xin CHN	4-0	KISHIKAWA Seiya MIZUTANI Jun JPN
11-6, 11-8, 11-3, 11-5