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The World Championships 2009.
The world's best come together in Yokohama, Japan ...
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.
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So let's look at what events are included ...
The World Championships 2009 events are ...
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.
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.
The last individual World Table Tennis Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia in May 2007 and the winners were ...
Men's Doubles Event Results
First Round (Last 64)
Thursday 30 April 2009
| Winners | Result | Losers |
| CHEN Qi WANG Hao China |
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 China |
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 China |
4-0 | JEVTOVIC Marko PETE Zolt SRB |
Second Round (Last 32)
Friday 1 May 2009
| Winners | Result | Losers |
| CHEN Qi WANG Hao China |
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 China |
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 China |
4-2 | JOO Se Hyuk SEO Hyun Deok KOR |
Third Round (Last 16)
Saturday 2 May 2009
| Winners | Result | Losers |
| CHEN Qi WANG Hao China |
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 China |
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 China |
4-1 | FREITAS Marcos SILVA Andre POR |
Quarter Finals
Sunday 3 May 2009
| Winners | Result | Losers |
| CHEN Qi WANG Hao China |
4-2 | OH Sang Eun RYU Seung Min KOR |
| 13-11, 11-7, 11-9, 8-11 8-11, 11-9 |
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| HAO Shuai ZHANG Jike China |
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 |
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| MA Long XU Xin China |
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 China |
4-1 | HAO Shuai ZHANG Jike China |
| 9-11, 11-4, 13-11, 11-7, 11-9 |
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| MA Long XU Xin China |
4-0 | KISHIKAWA Seiya MIZUTANI Jun JPN |
| 11-6, 11-8, 11-3, 11-5 |

2009 World Championships
Mens Doubles Finalists
CHEN Qi & WANG Hao (top) - MA Long & XU Xin (bottom)
Final
Tuesday 5 May 2009
| Winners | Result | Losers |
| CHEN Qi WANG Hao China |
4-1 | MA Long XU Xin China |
| 6-11, 13-11, 13-11, 11-5, 11-9 |

2009 World Championships
Mens Doubles Champions
CHEN Qi & WANG Hao
World Championships 2009
Men's Doubles Event
(The Iran Cup)
WINNERS = CHEN Qi & WANG Hao (China)
RUNNERS-UP = MA Long & XU Xin (China)
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