The Korea Open is an annual table tennis tournament in South Korea. It is organised by the Korea Table Tennis Association, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), and is currently one of six top-tier Platinum events on the ITTF World Tour.
History
The tournament was first held in 1980, and has featured on the ITTF World Tour's schedule (former ITTF Pro Tour) every year since 2001.
China's Xu Xin currently holds the record for most men's singles tournament wins, with four, while Singapore's Feng Tianwei holds the record for most women's singles tournament wins, also with three.
Champions
1980–2017
Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles1980* Jacques Secretin Hwang Nam Suk Jacques Secretin Patrick Gernot Lee Su Ja Kim Jung Ja1982* Jan-Ove Waldner Yang Young-Ja Masahiro Maehara Kiyoshi Saito An Hae-Sook Yang Young-Ja1985** Wang Huiyuan Geng Lijuan1993 Wang Tao Deng Yaping Chu Kyo-sung Kang Hee-Chan Deng Yaping Gao Jun1994 Kong Linghui Chai Po Wa Chu Kyo-sung Lee Chul-seung Qiao Hong Qiao Yunping2001 Kim Taek-soo Wang Nan Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang Gao Xi Li Jia2002 Werner Schlager Tie Ya Na Kim Taek-soo Oh Sang-eun Bai Yang Guo Yan2003 Ma Lin Guo Yan Chen Qi Ma Lin Guo Yue Niu Jianfeng2004 Wang Liqin Zhang Yining Kong Linghui Wang Hao Wang Nan Zhang Yining2005 Oh Sang-eun Kim Kyung-ah Lee Jung-woo Ryu Seung-min Tan Paey Fern Zhang Xueling2006 Joo Sae-hyuk Tie Ya Na Cheung Yuk Leung Chu Yan Tie Ya Na Zhang Rui2007 Oh Sang-eun Jiang Huajun Lee Jung-woo Ryu Seung-min Gao Jun Shen Yanfei2008 Ma Long Guo Yue Wang Hao Wang Liqin Guo Yue Liu Shiwen2009 Jun Mizutani Feng Tianwei Hao Shuai Wang Hao Kim Kyung-ah Park Mi-young2010 Vladimir Samsonov Shen Yanfei Patrick Baum Bastian Steger Kim Kyung-ah Park Mi-young2011 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Feng Tianwei Jin Yixiong Song Hongyuan Hiroko Fujii Misako Wakamiya2012 Zhang Jike Liu Shiwen Ma Long Xu Xin Ding Ning Liu Shiwen2013 Xu Xin Suh Hyo-won Suh Hyun-deok Zhang Jike Park Young-sook Yang Ha-eun2014 Xu Xin Han Ying Yu Ziyang Zhou Kai Chen Ke Wang Manyu2015 Jung Young-sik Ai Fukuhara Jung Young-sik Kim Min-seok Miu Hirano Mima Ito2016 Xu Xin Ding Ning Xu Xin Zhang Jike Ding Ning Liu Shiwen2017 Timo Boll Feng Tianwei Jang Woo-jin Jeong Sang-eun Shan Xiaona Petrissa Solja
) was called Seoul Open ) was the final tournament of the Grand Prix series, called Seoul Grand Prix
2018–present
Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles2018 Jang Woo-jin Zhu Yuling Jang Woo-jin Lim Jong-hoon Chen Meng Ding Ning Jang Woo-jin Cha Hyo Sim2019 Xu Xin Chen Meng Fan Zhendong Xu Xin Chen Meng Wang Manyu Wong Chun Ting Doo Hoi Kem
See also Asian Table Tennis Union
References
External links International Table Tennis Federation Korean Table Tennis Association (in Korean)