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Location. Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dates. 20–28 May [1] ← 2021. 2025 →. The 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was the 57th edition of World Table Tennis Championships and held in Durban, South Africa. [2] It was the first such event set to be held in Africa since 1939 Championship held in Egypt.
The following are the seeded players, based on the ITTF world ranking published on 16 May 2023. [3] [4]Players are defending points from the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, 2021 WTT Cup Finals and 2021 WTT Feeder, Dusseldorf if points from the tournaments are from the player's 8 best results.
ITTF. The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's double and mixed doubles, are currently ...
The women's singles competition of the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 20 to 28 May 2023. [2] The event was played as a straight knockout. All singles matches were best of 7 games.
Durban. Sun Yingsha. Chen Meng. Chen Xingtong. Hina Hayata. The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared vacant due to time limit rule in force at the time. In 2001, it was decided to declare the two finalists co-champions. Medal table.
The first international tournament was held in January 1926 in Berlin, and the first World Table Tennis Championships was held in December 1926 in London. [5] It was the only event for over 50 years that was run and managed commercially by the ITTF. In 1980, the ITTF World Cups was introduced, followed by the ITTF World Tour in 1996. Until 2003 ...
Website. ITTF. The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had only been men's singles until the start of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years. The competitions are sanctioned by International Table Tennis ...
Fan won five titles in 2023, including double gold at both the Singapore Smash and the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships, where he won the men's singles and doubles competition in both events. Fan won the ITTF "Male Player of the Year" award later that year, with an impressive 81% singles winning rate and reaching seven finals.