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.
The competition featured events in four categories: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles.
Events
Men's Singles Fan Zhendong Dimitrij Ovtcharov Lin Gaoyuan Timo BollWomen's Singles Chen Meng Zhu Yuling Gu Yuting Chen XingtongMen's Doubles Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima Ho Kwan Kit Wong Chun Ting Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura Chen Chien-an Chiang Hung-chiehWomen's Doubles 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.
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.
Men's singles
Players
Draw
Women's singles
Players
Draw
Men's doubles
Players
Draw
Women's doubles
Players
Draw
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.
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
External links 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals International Table Tennis Federation