How it was won
Wang Chuqin won his first world singles title in Doha, beating Hugo Calderano 4-1 in the final, 12-10, 11-3, 4-11, 11-2, 11-7. Sun Yingsha kept the women's title, beating Wang Manyu 4-3 in a final that went the distance, 11-6, 12-10, 8-11, 5-11, 12-10, 11-13, 11-7.
Calderano became the first player from the Americas to reach a world final. He beat Liang Jingkun 4-3 in the semi-finals after Liang had knocked out the top seed, Lin Shidong, 4-3 in the quarter-finals. China won four of the five titles: Wang Manyu and Kuai Man took the women's doubles and Wang Chuqin and Sun the mixed, while Japan's Hiroto Shinozuka and Shunsuke Togami beat Taiwan's Kao Cheng-Jui and Lin Yun-Ju 3-2 in the men's doubles final.