2025 World Championships

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The 2025 World Table Tennis Championships take place in Doha, Qatar from 17-25 May 2025

 By Martin Hughes
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The Qatar Table Tennis Association are the hosts and organisers for the 2025 World Championships under the auspices and authority of the International Table Tennis Federation.

The competition is being played in Doha, Qatar at the Lusail Multipurpose Hall from Saturday 17 May to Sunday 25 May 2025.

2025 World Championships

 

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Separate competitions

The World Table Tennis Championships first took place in 1926 in London, England. However, since the year 2000, the 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 2025 is the year for the individual events to be contested.

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Events included in 2025

The 2025 World Table Tennis Championship events are...

  • Men's Singles - for the St Bride Vase
  • Women's Singles - for the Geist Prize
  • Men's Doubles - for the Iran Cup
  • Women's Doubles - for the W. J. Pope Trophy
  • Mixed Doubles - for the Heydusek Prize
World Championship trophies by courtesy of the ITTF

The St. Bride Vase was donated by C.Corti Woodcock in 1929, a member of the exclusive St. Bride Table Tennis Club in London, in honour of Fred Perry winning the title at the 1929 World Championships in Budapest.

The Geist Prize was donated in 1931 by Dr. Gaspar Geist, President of the Hungarian TTA.

The Iran Cup was presented at the 1947 World Championships by the Shah of Iran.

The W.J. Pope Trophy was donated in 1948 by W.J. Pope of England who was the ITTF Honorary General Secretary.

The Heydusek Cup was donated in 1948 by Zdenek Heydusek, Secretary of the Czechoslovakia Association.


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Equipment being used in 2025

The following equipment will be used at the 2025 World Championships...

  • Tables - Double Happiness (DHS) Rainbow Table - Maroon
  • Net and Posts - Double Happiness (DHS)
  • Balls - Butterfly R40+ 3-star
  • Flooring - Tibhar GRIP Europe

 

Double Happiness (DHS) Rainbow Table - Maroon

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Eligibility for the 2025 World Championships

Players could only be entered into the competition by their National Association.

The event was open to Member Associations satisfying the following conditions...

  • Associations whose membership subscriptions have been paid up to and including those for 2024.
  • Nominated players have to be eligible to represent their Member Associations according to Regulation 4.1.3 in the ITTF Handbook.

Number of Entries

Each Association could enter a maximum of 3 men and 3 women in each singles events - with the exception of those Associations with a player in the top 100 of the World Ranking (who will be allocated one extra place) and a player in the top 20 of the World Ranking (who will be allocated one further extra place). This is known as the 3+1+1 rule.

Each Association could enter a maximum of 4 players for men's doubles, 4 players for women's doubles and four players for Mixed Doubles (two men and two women) with a maximum of two combined pairs with another Association per doubles event.

The Host Association (Qatar) is guaranteed three singles and four doubles places.


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Playing System for the 2025 World Championships

The first round of Men's Singles and Women's Singles will have 128 places and the first round of Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles will have 64 places.

Singles events have 32 seeded players and doubles events have 16 seeded pairs.

All singles matches are best of 7 games and doubles matches are best of 5 games.

Draws

The draws take place on Wednesday 30 April 2025.

Seeded players are drawn into appropriate positions according to Regulation 3.6.2.3 in the ITTF Handbook.

All other players/pairs are then drawn at random into the remaining 96 positions for singles and 48 positions for doubles.

Players of the same Association are separated according to Regulation 3.6.3.1 in the ITTF Handbook (only in the first round of the draw but not in further rounds).

The ranking list used for seeding and for the draws was the ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking published on 29 April 2025.


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2023 Winners

The previous individual World Table Tennis Championships were held in Durban, South Africa from 20-28 May 2023 and the winners were...

2023 Men's Singles World Champion

2023 World Champion - Fan Zhendong (China) with Mens Singles trophy2023 World Champion
Fan Zhendong (China) with Mens Singles trophy

 

2023 Women's Singles World Champion

Sun Yingsha (China) - Women's Singles World Champion 2023Sun Yingsha (China) - Women's Singles World Champion 2023

 

2023 Men's Doubles World Champions

WANG Chuqin and FAN Zhendong with the Mens Doubles trophyWANG Chuqin and FAN Zhendong (China) with the Mens Doubles trophy

 

2023 Women's Doubles World Champions

2023 World Championships - Women's Doubles Champions - Wang Yidi and Chen Meng (China)2023 World Championships - Women's Doubles Champions
Wang Yidi and Chen Meng (China)

 

2023 Mixed Doubles World Champions

2023 World Championships Mixed Doubles Champions - Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin (China)Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin (China)
Mixed Doubles World Champions 2023

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2025 ITTF World Championship Results


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2020 World Team Championships - Busan, South Korea

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2016 World Team Championships - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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2014 World Team Championships - Tokyo, Japan

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2012 World Team Championships - Dortmund, Germany

2011 World Championships - Rotterdam, Netherlands

2010 World Team Championships - Moscow, Russia

2009 World Championships - Yokohama, Japan

 

 

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