ITTF World Tour Grand Finals

Annual table tennis tournament

The ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, formerly named ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals, was an annual table tennis tournament sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) at the end of the year. The tournament included seven events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, mixed doubles (new in 2018), U21 men's and women's singles. Players who accumulated the largest number of points on the ITTF World Tour were qualified for the event, and competing for total prize money of US$1,000,000, the biggest total prize money event in the ITTF calendar.[1]

Since 2021, the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals has been effectively replaced by the newly created WTT Cup Finals, which was renamed to WTT Finals in 2023.

## Qualification сriteria

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### Men's and women's singles

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* Attend at least 5 events at ITTF World Tour.[2]
* The top 15 men and 15 women who have accumulated the largest number of points on World Tour standing are invited.
* The ITTF will invite one player from to the host association provided that they played at least 5 events at ITTF World Tour.
* If a player from the host association is already among the 15 invited players or no player from the host association had attended at least 5 events at ITTF World Tour, then the 16th player in order will be invited.

### Men's and women's doubles

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* The same pair has to play at least 4 events at ITTF World Tour.[2]
* The top 7 men's and 7 women's doubles pairs who have accumulated the largest number of points, as a pair, on World Tour standing are invited.
* The ITTF will invite one pair from the host association given that the pair played at least 4 events at ITTF World Tour.
* If a pair from the host association is already among the 7 invited pairs or no pair from the host association had attended at least 4 events at ITTF World Tour, then the 8th pair in order will be invited.
* If a player appears in two or more double pairs, only the highest double will be qualified.

### Mixed doubles

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* The same pair has to play at least 2 events at ITTF World Tour.[2]
* The top 7 doubles who have accumulated the largest number of points, as a pair, on World Tour standing are invited.
* The ITTF will invite one pair from the host association given that the pair played at least 2 events at ITTF World Tour.
* If a pair from the host association is already among the 7 invited pairs or no pair from the host association had attended at least 2 events at ITTF World Tour, then the 8th pair in order will be invited.
* If a player appears in two or more double pairs, only the highest double will be qualified.

### U21 men's and women's singles

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* Attend 4 events in at least 2 continents at ITTF World Tour.
* The top 8 on the World Tour standing are qualified.

If more than 1 player or pair have the same ranking on the World Tour standing when they compete for the last spot, the spot belongs to the player or the pair with higher ITTF world ranking.

## Playing systems

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All the matches in World Tour Grand Finals are played best of 7 games with the exception of the first round of men's doubles and women's doubles, which are played as a best of 5 games.[3]

Seeding of the players and pairs are determined by the final order of the World Tour standings.[4]

### Men's and women's singles, doubles

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16 players (or 8 pairs in doubles) advance towards next round under a knockout system. The top 8 players (or the top 4 pairs in doubles) on the World Tour standing will avoid playing each other in the first round.

### U21 men's and women's singles

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8 players are at first separated into two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top 2 players in each group advance towards a knockout.

## Winners

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Further information on medalists: List of ITTF World Tour Grand Finals medalists

* List of winners at ITTF World Tour Grand Finals:[5]

Location  | Year  | Men's Singles  | Women's Singles  | Men's Doubles  | Women's Doubles  | Mixed Doubles

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Tianjin | 1996  |  Kong Linghui |  Deng Yaping |  Wang Liqin
Yan Sen |  Deng Yaping
Yang Ying |
Hong Kong | 1997  |  Vladimir Samsonov |  Li Ju |  Kong Linghui
Liu Guoliang |  Li Ju
Wang Nan
Paris | 1998  |  Wang Liqin |  Wang Nan |  Wang Liqin
Yan Sen
Sydney | 1999  |  Liu Guozheng |  Chen Jing |  Kong Linghui
Ma Lin
Kobe | 2000  |  Wang Liqin |  Zhang Yining |  Wang Liqin
Yan Sen |  Sun Jin
Yang Ying
Hainan | 2001  |  Ma Lin |  Wang Nan |  Kim Taek-Soo
Oh Sang-Eun |  Lee Eun-Sil
Ryu Ji-Hae
Stockholm | 2002  |  Chuang Chih-yuan |  Zhang Yining |  Kong Linghui
Ma Lin |  Li Jia
Niu Jianfeng
Guangzhou | 2003  |  Wang Hao |  Niu Jianfeng |  Ma Lin
Chen Qi |  Guo Yue
Niu Jianfeng
Beijing | 2004  |  Wang Liqin |  Guo Yue |  Wang Nan
Zhang Yining
Fuzhou | 2005  |  Timo Boll |  Zhang Yining |  Timo Boll
Christian Süß |  Gao Jun
Shen Yanfei
Hong Kong | 2006  |  Wang Hao |  Hao Shuai
Ma Long |  Wang Nan
Zhang Yining
Beijing | 2007  |  Ma Lin |  Li Xiaoxia |  Wang Liqin
Chen Qi |  Guo Yue
Li Xiaoxia
Macau | 2008  |  Ma Long |  Guo Yan |  Gao Ning
Yang Zi |  Li Jiawei
Sun Beibei
Macau | 2009  |  Timo Boll
Christian Süß |  Ding Ning
Liu Shiwen
Seoul | 2010  |  Jun Mizutani |  Feng Tianwei |  Jiang Tianyi
Tang Peng |  Kim Kyung-Ah
Park Mi-Young
London | 2011  |  Ma Long |  Liu Shiwen |  Ma Lin
Zhang Jike |  Guo Yue
Li Xiaoxia
Hangzhou | 2012  |  Xu Xin |  Gao Ning
Li Hu |  Feng Tianwei
Yu Mengyu
Dubai | 2013  |  Ding Ning
Li Xiaoxia
Bangkok | 2014  |  Jun Mizutani |  Kasumi Ishikawa |  Cho Eon-Rae
Seo Hyun-Deok |  Miu Hirano
Mima Ito
Lisbon | 2015  |  Ma Long |  Ding Ning |  Masataka Morizono
Yuya Oshima |  Ding Ning
Zhu Yuling
Doha | 2016 |  Zhu Yuling |  Jung Young-sik
Lee Sang-su |  Yui Hamamoto
Hina Hayata
Astana | 2017 |  Fan Zhendong |  Chen Meng |  Masataka Morizono
Yuya Oshima |  Chen Meng
Zhu Yuling
Incheon | 2018 |  Tomokazu Harimoto |  Jang Woo-jin
Lim Jonghoon |  Mima Ito
Hina Hayata |  Wong Chun Ting
Doo Hoi Kem
Zhengzhou | 2019 |  Fan Zhendong |  Fan Zhendong
Xu Xin |  Miyuu Kihara
Miyu Nagasaki |  Xu Xin
Liu Shiwen
Zhengzhou | 2020[6] |  Ma Long |

## See also

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* ITTF World Tour

## References

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1. ^ "I T T F prize_money". www.ittf.com.
2. ^ a b c "Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals Qualification Criteria" (PDF) (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-31.
3. ^ "Playing System for the Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals" (PDF). ittf.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-04.
4. ^ "Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals Qualification Criteria" (PDF). ittf.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-01.
5. ^ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
6. ^ "Bank of Communications 2020 ITTF Finals: Ma Long and Chen Meng make history". 22 November 2020. Archived from the original on 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.

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