How it was won
The top seeds, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha, won WTT Champions Xinxiang. Fan beat Liang Jingkun 4-1 in the men's final and Sun beat Wang Yidi 4-1 in the women's.
Fan came close to going out twice. He beat Lin Shidong 3-2 in the quarter-finals and South Korea's Lim Jonghoon 4-3 in the semi-finals, 11-9 in the seventh game. Lim had beaten the third seed, Tomokazu Harimoto, and Lin Yun-Ju had beaten the fourth, Ma Long, in the last 16.
