2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals

2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals

Tournament details
Dates	14–17 December 2017
Edition	22nd
Total prize money	US$1,000,000
Venue	"Daulet" Sport Complex
Location	Astana, Kazakhstan
Champions
Men's singles	Fan Zhendong
Women's singles	Chen Meng
Men's doubles	Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima
Women's doubles	Chen Meng Zhu Yuling
Official website	2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
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The 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals was the final competition of the 2017 ITTF World Tour, the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour. It was the 22nd edition of the competition, and was held from 14 to 17 December in Astana, Kazakhstan. ^{[1] [2]}

The competition featured events in four categories: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles. ^[3]

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles details	Fan Zhendong	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Lin Gaoyuan
			Timo Boll
Women's Singles details	Chen Meng	Zhu Yuling	Gu Yuting
			Chen Xingtong
Men's Doubles details	Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima	Ho Kwan Kit Wong Chun Ting	Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura
			Chen Chien-an Chiang Hung-chieh
Women's Doubles details	Chen Meng Zhu Yuling	Hina Hayata Mima Ito	Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching
			Honoka Hashimoto Hitomi Sato

Qualification

Players earned points based on their performances in the singles and doubles tournaments at the 12 events of the 2017 ITTF World Tour. The top 15 men's singles players, the top 16 women's singles players, and the top eight men's and women's doubles pairs who satisfied the qualification criteria were invited to compete. Kazakhstan's Kirill Gerassimenko was the 16th player added to the men's singles event to ensure that the host nation was represented. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Tournament format

The singles and doubles tournaments consisted of knockout draws, with 16 players starting each of the singles events and eight pairs starting each of the doubles events. The seedings for the tournament draws were based on final tour standings, not the official ITTF world ranking. ^[3]

Men's singles

Players

1. Dimitrij Ovtcharov (final)
2. Timo Boll (semifinals)
3. Fan Zhendong (champion)
4. Lin Gaoyuan (semifinals)
5. Xu Xin (quarterfinals)
6. Tomokazu Harimoto (quarterfinals)
7. Simon Gauzy (first round)
8. Vladimir Samsonov (first round)
9. Kenta Matsudaira (first round)
10. Fang Bo (quarterfinals)
11. Koki Niwa (first round)
12. Wong Chun Ting (quarterfinals)
13. Masaki Yoshida (first round)
14. Yuya Oshima (first round)
15. Chuang Chih-yuan (first round)
16. Kirill Gerassimenko (first round)

Draw

	First round											Quarterfinals											Semifinals											Final
	1	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	10	11	12	11	9	11	11
	11	Koki Niwa	12	6	14	6	11	9	5			1	D. Ovtcharov	11	11	11	12	11	5	11
	16	Kirill Gerassimenko	9	6	5	11						6	T. Harimoto	7	13	8	14	8	11	7
	6	Tomokazu Harimoto	11	11	11	13																	1	D. Ovtcharov	7	6	11	11	11	4	12
	7	Simon Gauzy	6	8	8	7																	4	Lin Gaoyuan	11	11	9	8	8	11	10
	10	Fang Bo	11	11	11	11						10	Fang Bo	11	7	6	7	6
	13	Masaki Yoshida	4	1	6	7						4	Lin Gaoyuan	8	11	11	11	11
	4	Lin Gaoyuan	11	11	11	11																												1	D. Ovtcharov	7	9	7	10
	3	Fan Zhendong	17	8	12	8	11	11																										3	Fan Zhendong	11	11	11	12
	15	Chuang Chih-yuan	15	11	10	11	5	6				3	Fan Zhendong	11	11	9	11	12
	9	Kenta Matsudaira	6	8	9	8						5	Xu Xin	6	8	11	9	10
	5	Xu Xin	11	11	11	11																	3	Fan Zhendong	11	11	8	11	9	11
	8	Vladimir Samsonov	3	10	11	11	11	11	9														2	Timo Boll	6	4	11	8	11	7
	12	Wong Chun Ting	11	12	9	13	4	8	11			12	Wong C.T.	11	8	11	3	9	3
	14	Yuya Oshima	6	11	11	10	8	6				2	Timo Boll	4	11	9	11	11	11
	2	Timo Boll	11	8	3	12	11	11

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Women's singles

Players

1. Chen Meng (champion)
2. Wang Manyu (quarterfinals)
3. Kasumi Ishikawa (quarterfinals)
4. Mima Ito (quarterfinals)
5. Gu Yuting (semifinals)
6. Chen Xingtong (semifinals)
7. Zhu Yuling (final)
8. Feng Tianwei (quarterfinals)
9. Sakura Mori (first round)
10. Shan Xiaona (first round)
11. Hina Hayata (first round)
12. Miu Hirano (first round)
13. Han Ying (first round)
14. Doo Hoi Kem (first round)
15. Hitomi Sato (first round)
16. Cheng I-ching (first round)

Draw

	First round											Quarterfinals											Semifinals											Final
	1	Chen Meng	11	11	11	8	9	11
	14	Doo Hoi Kem	5	8	6	11	11	8				1	Chen Meng	11	11	11	11
	16	Cheng I-ching	9	11	15	5	8					8	Feng Tianwei	4	8	6	3
	8	Feng Tianwei	11	7	17	11	11																1	Chen Meng	12	11	11	11
	5	Gu Yuting	11	11	10	11	9	12	11														5	Gu Yuting	10	4	5	9
	12	Miu Hirano	5	6	12	8	11	14	9			5	Gu Yuting	6	11	11	11	6	11
	13	Han Ying	3	9	11	12	6	4				3	K. Ishikawa	11	9	8	6	11	4
	3	Kasumi Ishikawa	11	11	9	10	11	11																										1	Chen Meng	11	11	11	12
	4	Mima Ito	11	11	11	8	5	11																										7	Zhu Yuling	6	3	6	10
	9	Sakura Mori	8	8	7	11	11	5				4	Mima Ito	8	11	6	8	6
	10	Shan Xiaona	2	6	10	11	10					6	Chen Xingtong	11	8	11	11	11
	6	Chen Xingtong	11	11	12	5	12																6	Chen Xingtong	11	6	4	14	7
	7	Zhu Yuling	9	4	11	11	11	9	11														7	Zhu Yuling	9	11	11	16	11
	11	Hina Hayata	11	11	8	8	5	11	7			7	Zhu Yuling	11	8	11	6	11	9	11
	15	Hitomi Sato	6	6	7	11	10					2	Wang Manyu	6	11	7	11	8	11	2
	2	Wang Manyu	11	11	11	8	12

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Men's doubles

Players

1. Jin Ueda / Maharu Yoshimura (semifinals)
2. Masataka Morizono / Yuya Oshima (champions)
3. Ho Kwan Kit / Wong Chun Ting (final)
4. Patrick Franziska / Jonathan Groth (quarterfinals)
5. Tomokazu Harimoto / Yuto Kizukuri (quarterfinals)
6. Chen Chien-an / Chiang Hung-chieh (semifinals)
7. Robin Devos / Cédric Nuytinck (quarterfinals)
8. Gao Ning / Pang Xue Jie (quarterfinals)

Draw

	Quarterfinals											Semifinals											Final
	1	Ueda / Yoshimura	11	11	11
	7	Devos / Nuytinck	9	6	7							1	Ueda / Yoshimura	11	3	11	11	11	10	9
	8	Gao / Pang	4	2	11							3	Ho / Wong	4	11	13	3	7	12	11
	3	Ho / Wong	11	11	13																		3	Ho / Wong	7	11	11	10	11	10	10
	4	Franziska / Groth	7	7	11	9																	2	Morizono / Oshima	11	6	6	12	9	12	12
	6	Chen / Chiang	11	11	3	11						6	Chen / Chiang	5	7	12	14	8	5
	5	Harimoto / Kizukuri	11	9	10	11	8					2	Morizono / Oshima	11	11	10	12	11	11
	2	Morizono / Oshima	8	11	12	8	11

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Women's doubles

Players

1. Hina Hayata / Mima Ito (final)
2. Chen Meng / Zhu Yuling (champions)
3. Matilda Ekholm / Georgina Póta (quarterfinals)
4. Doo Hoi Kem / Lee Ho Ching (semifinals)
5. Chen Szu-yu / Cheng I-ching (quarterfinals)
6. Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Sato (semifinals)
7. Barbora Balážová / Hana Matelová (quarterfinals)
8. Ng Wing Nam / Soo Wai Yam Minnie (quarterfinals)

Draw

	Quarterfinals											Semifinals											Final
	1	Hayata / Ito	11	11	11	11
	7	Balážová / Matelová	9	6	13	5						1	Hayata / Ito	8	11	9	12	11	16
	5	Chen / Cheng	8	7	11	11						4	Doo / Lee	11	6	11	10	9	14
	4	Doo / Lee	11	11	4	13																	1	Hayata / Ito	8	8	8	9
	3	Ekholm / Póta	6	9	11	7																	2	Chen / Zhu	11	11	11	11
	6	Hashimoto / Sato	11	11	8	11						6	Hashimoto / Sato	12	4	9	8
	8	Ng / Soo	3	4	7							2	Chen / Zhu	14	11	11	11
	2	Chen / Zhu	11	11	11

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ITTF Star Awards

The 2017 ITTF Star Awards ceremony was held on the first evening of the Grand Finals at the Rixos President Hotel on 14 December. ^[11]

Awards were handed out in eight categories:

• Male Table Tennis Star: Timo Boll
• Female Table Tennis Star: Ding Ning
• Male Para Table Tennis Star: Viktor Didukh
• Female Para Table Tennis Star: Neslihan Kavas
• Table Tennis Star Coach: Jörg Roßkopf
• Table Tennis Breakthrough Star: Tomokazu Harimoto
• Table Tennis Star Point: Ding Ning (versus Zhu Yuling at the 2017 World Championships)
• Fair Play Star: Irvin Bertrand

See also

• 2017 World Table Tennis Championships
• 2017 ITTF Men's World Cup
• 2017 ITTF Women's World Cup

References

1. "Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals". ITTF. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
2. "Prospectus Information" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
3. "Playing System for the Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
4. "Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals Qualification Criteria" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
5. "Final list of confirmed players" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
6. "Kirill Gerassimenko an exceptional talent, can he deliver the goods on home soil?". ITTF. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
7. "Men's Singles - Main Draw" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 17 December 2017.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
8. "Women's Singles - Main Draw" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 17 December 2017.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
9. "Men's Doubles - Main Draw" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 17 December 2017.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
10. "Women's Doubles - Main Draw" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 17 December 2017.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
11. "Timo Boll & Ding Ning Crowned 2017 Table Tennis Stars at ITTF Star Awards". ITTF. Retrieved 14 December 2017.

External links

• 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
• International Table Tennis Federation