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.
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 Men's and women's singles Attend at least 5 events at ITTF World Tour. 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 The same pair has to play at least 4 events at ITTF World Tour. 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 The same pair has to play at least 2 events at ITTF World Tour. 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 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 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.
Seeding of the players and pairs are determined by the final order of the World Tour standings.
Men's and women's singles, doubles 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 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
List of winners at ITTF World Tour Grand Finals: LocationYearMen's SinglesWomen's SinglesMen's DoublesWomen's DoublesMixed Doubles Tianjin1996 Kong Linghui Deng Yaping Wang Liqin Yan Sen Deng Yaping Yang Ying Hong Kong1997 Vladimir Samsonov Li Ju Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang Li Ju Wang Nan Paris1998 Wang Liqin Wang Nan Wang Liqin Yan Sen Sydney1999 Liu Guozheng Chen Jing Kong Linghui Ma Lin Kobe2000 Wang Liqin Zhang Yining Wang Liqin Yan Sen Sun Jin Yang Ying Hainan2001 Ma Lin Wang Nan Kim Taek-Soo Oh Sang-Eun Lee Eun-Sil Ryu Ji-Hae Stockholm2002 Chuang Chih-yuan Zhang Yining Kong Linghui Ma Lin Li Jia Niu Jianfeng Guangzhou2003 Wang Hao Niu Jianfeng Ma Lin Chen Qi Guo Yue Niu Jianfeng Beijing2004 Wang Liqin Guo Yue Wang Nan Zhang Yining Fuzhou2005 Timo Boll Zhang Yining Timo Boll Christian Süß Gao Jun Shen Yanfei Hong Kong2006 Wang Hao Hao Shuai Ma Long Wang Nan Zhang Yining Beijing2007 Ma Lin Li Xiaoxia Wang Liqin Chen Qi Guo Yue Li Xiaoxia Macau2008 Ma Long Guo Yan Gao Ning Yang Zi Li Jiawei Sun Beibei Macau2009 Timo Boll Christian Süß Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Seoul2010 Jun Mizutani Feng Tianwei Jiang Tianyi Tang Peng Kim Kyung-Ah Park Mi-Young London2011 Ma Long Liu Shiwen Ma Lin Zhang Jike Guo Yue Li Xiaoxia Hangzhou2012 Xu Xin Gao Ning Li Hu Feng Tianwei Yu Mengyu Dubai2013 Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia Bangkok2014 Jun Mizutani Kasumi Ishikawa Cho Eon-Rae Seo Hyun-Deok Miu Hirano Mima Ito Lisbon2015 Ma Long Ding Ning Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima Ding Ning Zhu Yuling Doha2016 Zhu Yuling Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su Yui Hamamoto Hina Hayata Astana2017 Fan Zhendong Chen Meng Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima Chen Meng Zhu Yuling Incheon2018 Tomokazu Harimoto Jang Woo-jin Lim Jonghoon Mima Ito Hina Hayata Wong Chun Ting Doo Hoi Kem Zhengzhou2019 Fan Zhendong Fan Zhendong Xu Xin Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki Xu Xin Liu Shiwen Zhengzhou2020 Ma Long
See also ITTF World Tour
References
External links ITTF World Tour ITTF Statistics