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| Dates | 28 February – 7 December | ||
| Edition | 1st | ||
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The 2021 WTT Series was the 1st season of the World Table Tennis's professional table tennis world tour.
| WTT Cup Finals |
| WTT Star Contender |
| WTT Contender |
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2021 calendar, [1] [2] with the champions and runners-up documented.
| Date | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February-6 March |
|  Dimitrij Ovtcharov |  Lin Yun-Ju |
| Score: 4–1 (11–7, 14-12, 12–10, 6-11, 11–6) | |||
 Mima Ito | Hina Hayata | ||
| Score: 4–2 (11-9, 11–8, 6–11, 9–11, 11–9, 11–6) | |||
 Cho Dae-seong Lee Sang-su |  Gaston Alto Horacio Cifuentes | ||
| Score: 3–2 (11–3, 9–11, 11–7, 9–11, 13–11) | |||
| Kasumi Ishikawa Miu Hirano | Cheng Hsien-Tzu Chen Szu-Yu | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11–6, 11–8, 11–6) | |||
| Cheng I-Ching Lin Yun-Ju |  Emmanuel Lebesson Jia Nan Yuan | ||
| Score: 3–0 (11–7, 11–13, 11–6, 16-18, 11-4) | |||
| Date | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5–13 March |
| Tomokazu Harimoto | Ruwen Filus |
| Score: 4–2 (11-9, 11-9, 12-14, 11-5, 7-11, 11-8) | |||
| Mima Ito |  Feng Tianwei | ||
| Score: 4–1 (10-12, 12-10, 11-7, 11-8, 11-6) | |||
| Jeoung Young-sik Lee Sang-su |  Ovidiu Ionescu  Alvaro Robles | ||
| Score: 3–2 (2-11, 11-6, 11-8, 8-11, 11-3) | |||
| Jeon Ji-hee Shin Yu-bin | Miu Hirano Kasumi Ishikawa | ||
| Score: 3–0 (11-6, 12-10, 11-8) | |||
| Cheng I-ching Lin Yun-ju | Jeon Ji-hee Lee Sang-su | ||
| Score: 3–1 (10-12, 11-8, 11-9, 11-6) | |||
| Date | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-20 August |
|  Truls Moregard | Kilian Ort |
| Score: 4–3 (3-11, 11-9, 12-10, 9-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-9) | |||
 Xiaoxin Yang |  Elizabet Abraamian | ||
| Score: 4–0 (11-9, 12-10, 11-6, 11-1) | |||
| Tobias Hippler Kilian Ort | Vladimir Sidorenko Kirill Skachkov | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11-3, 11-7, 6-11, 11-7) | |||
 Dora Madarasz Szandra Pergel | Yana Noskova Olga Vorobeva | ||
| Score: 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-6) | |||
 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Manika Batra | Nandor Ecseki Dora Madarasz | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11-9, 9-11, 12-10, 11-6) | |||
| Date | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20–25 September |
|  Hugo Calderano |  Darko Jorgic |
| Score: 4–2 (11-5, 6-11, 10-12, 11-9, 11-3, 11-9) | |||
| Hina Hayata |  Doo Hoi Kem | ||
| Score: 4–1 (11-6, 11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-7) | |||
| An Jae-hyun Cho Seung-min |  Paul Drinkhall Liam Pitchford | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11-7, 4-11, 11-9, 11-4) | |||
| Minami Ando Miyu Nagasaki | Yang Ha-eun Jeon Ji-hee | ||
| Score: 3–0 (11-8, 11-9, 11-6) | |||
| Shunsuke Togami Hina Hayata | Jang Woo-jin Jeon Ji-hee | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11-6, 3-11, 11-2, 11-8) | |||
| Date | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24–30 October |
| Anton Kallberg | Dang Qiu |
| Score: 4–0 (13-11, 11-9, 11-7, 12-10) | |||
 Hana Matelova | Xiaoxin Yang | ||
| Score: 4–3 (11-9, 11-9, 10-12, 6-11, 11-7, 2-11, 11-4) | |||
| Harmeet Desai Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | Alexandre Cassin Emmanuel Lebesson | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11-9, 4-11, 11-9, 11-6) | |||
| Linda Bergstrom Christina Kallberg |  Rachel Moret  Daria Trigolos | ||
| Score: 3–2 (10-12, 11-5, 11-7, 7-11, 11-9) | |||
| Emmanuel Lebesson Jia Nan Yuan | Aleksandr Khanin Daria Trigolos | ||
| Score: 3–2 (3-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-9) | |||
| Date | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–7 November |
|  Liang Jingkun |  Kirill Gerassimenko |
| Score: 4–0 (11-8, 11-7, 11-5, 11-4) | |||
| Wang Yidi | Liu Weishan | ||
| Score: 4–1 (12-10, 3-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-9) | |||
| Lin Gaoyuan Zhou Qihao | Yuto Kizukuri Yuta Tanaka | ||
| Score: 3–0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-9) | |||
| Manika Batra Archana Girish Kamath |  Adriana Diaz Melanie Diaz | ||
| Score: 3–0 (11-3, 11-8, 12-10) | |||
| Wang Chuqin Wang Yidi | Liang Jingkun Liu Weishan | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11-7, 11-8, 9-11, 11-3) | |||
| 8–14 November |
| Liang Jingkun | Wang Chuqin |
| Score: 4–3 (9-11, 10-12, 11-5, 11-5, 9-11, 11-8, 12-10) | |||
| Liu Weishan |  Ni Xialian | ||
| Score: 4–1 (10-12, 11-2, 11-5, 11-7, 11-8) | |||
| Lin Gaoyuan Zhou Qihao | Liang Jingkun Wang Chuqin | ||
| Score: 3–1 (13-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-9) | |||
| Liu Weishan Wang Yidi | Nina Mittelham Sabine Winter | ||
| Score: 3–0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-8) | |||
| Wang Chuqin Wang Yidi | Simon Gauzy Prithika Pavade | ||
| Score: 3–1 (11-5, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6) | |||
| Date | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4–7 December |
| Fan Zhendong | Tomokazu Harimoto |
| Score: 4–1 (11-8, 9-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-5) | |||
| Sun Yingsha | Wang Yidi | ||
| Score: 4–2 (11-3, 17-15, 11-6, 7-11, 6-11, 11-8) | |||
Dimitrij Ovtcharov or Dmytro Ovtcharov is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail, a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was born.
Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs is a professional table tennis player from Romania.
Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics at age 15. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the inaugural mixed doubles event, bronze in women's singles, and silver in the women's team event.
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Liang Jingkun Chinese: 梁靖崑; pinyin: Liáng Jìngkūn is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently world rank number 5 in ITTF. He is a three-time bronze medalist in men's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships.
Manika Batra is an Indian table tennis player. She is a triple gold medalist at the South Asian Games, a double gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games, and a bronze medalist at the Asian Games, Asian Championships, and Asian Cup. She is India's number two in women and her world rank is 27 as of Nov 2024.
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World Table Tennis, stylized as WTT, is an organization created by the ITTF in 2019 that runs commercialized table tennis tournaments. Its inaugural tournament was held in November 2020 in Macao, China. It is distinguished from the predecessor ITTF World Tour by various rules changes and big prize money for commercialized purposes. The head of its council is Liu Guoliang, a former Olympic gold medalist and former head coach of China.
The 2022 WTT series was the 2nd season of the World Table Tennis's professional table tennis world tour.
The 2023 WTT series was the 3rd season of the World Table Tennis's professional table tennis world tour.
The 2024 WTT series was the 4th season of the World Table Tennis's professional table tennis world tour.
