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World Championships 2021

23 to 29 November 2021Houston, United States

Champions

Women's singles champion

Wang Manyu

Beat Sun Yingsha 4-2 in the final11-13, 11-7, 6-11, 11-6, 11-8, 17-15

Men's singles champion

Fan Zhendong

Beat Truls Moregard 4-0 in the final11-6, 11-9, 11-7, 11-8

Women's doubles champions

Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha

Beat Mima Ito / Hina Hayata 3-0 in the final11-9, 11-7, 11-8

Men's doubles champions

Kristian Karlsson / Mattias Falck

Beat Jang Woojin / Lim Jonghoon 3-1 in the final11-8, 15-13, 11-13, 12-10

Mixed doubles champions

Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha

Beat Tomokazu Harimoto / Hina Hayata 3-0 in the final11-2, 11-5, 11-8

How it was won

Fan Zhendong and Wang Manyu won the singles titles in Houston. Fan, the top seed, beat Sweden's Truls Moregard 4-0 in the men's final, 11-6, 11-9, 11-7, 11-8. Wang, seeded fourth, came from two games down to beat the top seed, Chen Meng, 4-3 in the semi-finals and then beat Sun Yingsha 4-2, taking the sixth game 17-15.

Moregard was unseeded and beat Timo Boll 4-3 in the semi-finals. The men's draw had opened up early: Poland's Jakub Dyjas beat the second seed, Tomokazu Harimoto, in the last 64, and Lim Jonghoon beat the fourth seed, Lin Yun-Ju. Sweden's Kristian Karlsson and Mattias Falck won the men's doubles, and Sun took two titles, the women's doubles with Wang Manyu and the mixed with Wang Chuqin.

Matches

  1. Women's singles, semi-finalChen MengWang Manyu 341191178116111311911811
  2. Men's singles, semi-finalTruls MoregardTimo Boll 438118111161181012118115
  3. Women's singles, semi-finalWang YidiSun Yingsha 14811113811611811
  4. Men's singles, semi-finalFan ZhendongLiang Jingkun 411151141198111311
  5. Mixed doubles, finalWang Chuqin / Sun YingshaTomokazu Harimoto / Hina Hayata 30112115118
  6. Women's doubles, finalMima Ito / Hina HayataWang Manyu / Sun Yingsha 03911711811
  7. Men's doubles, finalKristian Karlsson / Mattias FalckJang Woojin / Lim Jonghoon 31118151311131210

Times are UK time. Times are approximate: matches can start late or run over, so a match may not have started when its time passes. Tap a played match for point by point. Order of play and results from World Table Tennis.

The draw

Seeds shown in grey. Times are UK time. Times are approximate. Scroll sideways to follow each round.

Last 128

1Chen MengCHN
BYE
Orawan ParanangTHA3
Ye LinSGP4
Dora MadaraszHUN1
Sarah De NutteLUX4
Shin YubinKOR4
Soo Wai Yam MinnieHKG0
Mo ZhangCAN4
Jieni ShaoPOR3
Barbora BalazovaSVK4
Debora VivarelliITA0
Manika BatraIND3
Bruna TakahashiBRA4
Mariia TailakovaRTT0
Miu HiranoJPN4
Jeon JiheeKOR
BYE
Sofia-Xuan ZhangESP1
Yue WuUSA4
Nathalie MarchettiBEL2
Natalia BajorPOL4
Paulina VegaCHI0
Bernadette SzőcsROU4
Margaryta PesotskaUKR4
Yousra HelmyEGY0
Cheng Hsien-TzuTPE4
Natalia PartykaPOL2
Yadira SilvaMEX2
Giorgia PiccolinITA4
BYE
6Kasumi IshikawaJPN
5Cheng I-ChingTPE
BYE
Tin-Tin HoENG4
Marie MigotFRA2
Mabelyn EnriquezGUA0
Sibel AltinkayaTUR4
Amy WangUSA4
Nina MittelhamGER0
Xiaona ShanGER4
Olga VorobevaRTT2
Margo DegraefBEL0
Pauline ChasselinFRA4
Zhu ChengzhuHKG4
Maria XiaoESP0
Yana NoskovaRTT0
Chen XingtongCHN4
Sofia PolcanovaAUT3
Adina DiaconuROU4
Daniela OrtegaCHI0
Jia Nan YuanFRA4
Xin Ru WongSGP1
Liu Hsing-YinTPE4
Anna WegrzynPOL0
Elizabeta SamaraROU4
Hana MatelovaCZE4
Georgina PotaHUN1
Linda BergstromSWE4
Camila ArguellesARG0
Sutirtha MukherjeeIND1
Choi HyojooKOR4
BYE
4Wang ManyuCHN
3Mima ItoJPN
BYE
Zauresh AkashevaKAZ4
Daniely RiosPUR1
Madhurika PatkarIND0
Saki ShibataJPN4
Sabina SurjanSRB3
Britt EerlandNED4
Suthasini SawettabutTHA4
Karoline MischekAUT0
Rui Xuan GoiSGP4
Solomiya BrateykoUKR3
Anastassiya LavrovaKAZ3
Andreea DragomanROU4
Izabela LupuleskuSRB0
Petrissa SoljaGER4
Hina HayataJPN
BYE
Farah Abdel-AzizEGY2
Ayhika MukherjeeIND4
Ganna GaponovaUKR1
Jinnipa SawettabutTHA4
Mateja JegerCRO2
Dina MeshrefEGY4
Xia Lian NiLUX4
Jamila LaurentiITA0
Ivana MalobabicCRO4
Leila OliveiraPOR1
Katerina TomanovskaCZE2
Lee ZionKOR4
BYE
7Wang YidiCHN
8Tianwei FengSGP
BYE
Li Yu-JhunTPE4
Melanie DiazPUR3
Ozge YilmazTUR1
Christina KallbergSWE4
Polina MikhailovaRTT2
Suh HyowonKOR4
Lily ZhangUSA4
Leonie HartbrichHUN0
Andrea TodorovicSRB4
Ana CodinaARG0
Charlotte CareyWAL1
Sabine WinterGER4
Offiong EdemNGR0
Doo Hoi KemHKG4
Adriana DiazPUR4
Aikaterini ToliouGRE0
Katia KessaciALG0
Tatiana KukulkovaSVK4
Judith MoralesCHI0
Lee Ho ChingHKG4
Audrey ZarifFRA0
Chen Szu-YuTPE4
Han YingGER4
Rachel MoretSUI0
Daria TrigolosBLR4
Galia DvorakESP2
Caroline KumaharaBRA1
Ng Wing NamHKG4
BYE
2Sun YingshaCHN

Last 64

1Chen MengCHN4
Ye LinSGP0
Sarah De NutteLUX4
Shin YubinKOR3
Mo ZhangCAN0
Barbora BalazovaSVK4
Bruna TakahashiBRA0
Miu HiranoJPN4
Jeon JiheeKOR4
Yue WuUSA0
Natalia BajorPOL1
Bernadette SzőcsROU4
Margaryta PesotskaUKR4
Cheng Hsien-TzuTPE2
Giorgia PiccolinITA0
6Kasumi IshikawaJPN4
5Cheng I-ChingTPE4
Tin-Tin HoENG0
Sibel AltinkayaTUR0
Amy WangUSA4
Xiaona ShanGER4
Pauline ChasselinFRA0
Zhu ChengzhuHKG0
Chen XingtongCHN4
Adina DiaconuROU0
Jia Nan YuanFRA4
Liu Hsing-YinTPE4
Elizabeta SamaraROU0
Hana MatelovaCZE0
Linda BergstromSWE4
Choi HyojooKOR0
4Wang ManyuCHN4
3Mima ItoJPN4
Zauresh AkashevaKAZ0
Saki ShibataJPN4
Britt EerlandNED3
Suthasini SawettabutTHA4
Rui Xuan GoiSGP1
Andreea DragomanROU4
Petrissa SoljaGER3
Hina HayataJPN4
Ayhika MukherjeeIND0
Jinnipa SawettabutTHA1
Dina MeshrefEGY4
Xia Lian NiLUX4
Ivana MalobabicCRO0
Lee ZionKOR0
7Wang YidiCHN4
8Tianwei FengSGP4
Li Yu-JhunTPE2
Christina KallbergSWE0
Suh HyowonKOR4
Lily ZhangUSA4
Andrea TodorovicSRB2
Sabine WinterGER1
Doo Hoi KemHKG4
Adriana DiazPUR4
Tatiana KukulkovaSVK0
Lee Ho ChingHKG3
Chen Szu-YuTPE4
Han YingGER4
Daria TrigolosBLR0
Ng Wing NamHKG0
2Sun YingshaCHN4

Last 32

1Chen MengCHN4
Sarah De NutteLUX0
Barbora BalazovaSVK3
Miu HiranoJPN4
Jeon JiheeKOR2
Bernadette SzőcsROU4
Margaryta PesotskaUKR0
6Kasumi IshikawaJPN4
5Cheng I-ChingTPE4
Amy WangUSA0
Xiaona ShanGER0
Chen XingtongCHN4
Jia Nan YuanFRA4
Liu Hsing-YinTPE0
Linda BergstromSWE0
4Wang ManyuCHN4
3Mima ItoJPN4
Saki ShibataJPN3
Suthasini SawettabutTHA4
Andreea DragomanROU2
Hina HayataJPN4
Dina MeshrefEGY1
Xia Lian NiLUX0
7Wang YidiCHN4
8Tianwei FengSGP3
Suh HyowonKOR4
Lily ZhangUSA3
Doo Hoi KemHKG4
Adriana DiazPUR4
Chen Szu-YuTPE2
Han YingGER0
2Sun YingshaCHN4

Last 16

1Chen MengCHN4
Miu HiranoJPN3
Bernadette SzőcsROU0
6Kasumi IshikawaJPN4
5Cheng I-ChingTPE1
Chen XingtongCHN4
Jia Nan YuanFRA1
4Wang ManyuCHN4
3Mima ItoJPN4
Suthasini SawettabutTHA2
Hina HayataJPN2
7Wang YidiCHN4
Suh HyowonKOR4
Doo Hoi KemHKG1
Adriana DiazPUR2
2Sun YingshaCHN4

Quarter-finals

1Chen MengCHN4
6Kasumi IshikawaJPN0
Chen XingtongCHN0
4Wang ManyuCHN4
3Mima ItoJPN1
7Wang YidiCHN4
Suh HyowonKOR0
2Sun YingshaCHN4

Semi-finals

1Chen MengCHN3
4Wang ManyuCHN4
7Wang YidiCHN1
2Sun YingshaCHN4

Final

4Wang ManyuCHN4
2Sun YingshaCHN2

Official draw from World Table Tennis, updated 10 November, 15:09.