2017 ITTF World Tour

Details
Duration	17 January 2017 – 17 December 2017
Edition	22nd
Tournaments	12 + Grand Finals
Categories	World Tour Platinum (6) World Tour (6) Grand Finals (1)
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titles	Men: Dimitrij Ovtcharov (4) Women: Chen Meng (3)
Points leader	Men: Dimitrij Ovtcharov (1,550) Women: Chen Meng (2,162)
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The Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour was the 22nd season of the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour.

The events for the 2017 tour were split into two tiers: World Tour Platinum and World Tour. The Platinum events offered higher prize money and more points towards the ITTF World Tour standings, which determined the qualifiers for the 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in December.^[1][2][3]

On 12 January 2017 it was announced that Chinese shipping company Seamaster had agreed a four-year sponsorship deal with the ITTF World Tour.^[4]

Schedule

Below is the schedule released by the ITTF:^[5]

Tour	Event	Location	Venue	Date		Prize money (USD)	Ref.
				Start	Finish
1	Hungarian Open	Budapest	SYMA Sports and Conference Centre	January 19	January 22	120,000	[6]
2	India Open	New Delhi	Thyagaraj Sports Complex	February 16	February 19	150,000	[7]
3	Qatar Open	Doha	Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena	February 23	February 26	220,000	[8]
4	Korea Open	Incheon	Namdong Gymnasium	April 20	April 23	155,000	[9]
5	Japan Open	Tokyo	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium	June 16	June 18	220,000	[10]
6	China Open	Chengdu	Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium	June 22	June 25	220,000	[11]
7	Australian Open	Gold Coast	Gold Coast Sports & Leisure Centre	July 4	July 7	400,000	[12]
8	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte	Arena Asarel	August 17	August 20	130,000	[13]
9	Czech Open	Olomouc	OMEGA Sport Center	August 24	August 27	140,000	[14]
10	Austrian Open	Linz	TipsArena Linz	September 19	September 24	210,000	[15]
11	German Open	Magdeburg	GETEC Arena	November 10	November 12	210,000	[16]
12	Swedish Open	Stockholm	Eriksdalshallen	November 16	November 19	130,000	[17]
13	Grand Finals	Astana	"Daulet" Sports Complex	December 14	December 17	1,000,000	[18][19]

Events

Winners

World Tour Platinum

Event	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	U21 Men's singles	U21 Women's singles
Qatar Open	Ma Long	Chen Meng	Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima	Chen Meng Wang Manyu	Lam Siu Hang	Doo Hoi Kem
Japan Open	Ma Long	Sun Yingsha	Ma Long Xu Xin	Chen Xingtong Sun Yingsha	Lim Jong-hoon	Yuka Umemura
China Open	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Ding Ning	Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura	Ding Ning Liu Shiwen	Yuto Kizukuri	Maki Shiomi
Australian Open	Vladimir Samsonov	Chen Meng	Jang Woo-jin Park Gang-hyeon	Chen Meng Zhu Yuling	Park Gang-hyeon	Saki Shibata
Austrian Open	Lin Gaoyuan	Wang Manyu	Koki Niwa Jin Ueda	Chen Xingtong Sun Yingsha	Xue Fei	Zhang Rui
German Open	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Chen Meng	Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su	Hina Hayata Miu Hirano	Xue Fei	Chen Ke

World Tour

Event	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	U21 Men's singles	U21 Women's singles
Hungarian Open	Yan An	Chen Xingtong	Fang Bo Zhou Yu	Chen Xingtong Li Jiayi	Kirill Gerassimenko	Zeng Jian
India Open	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Sakura Mori	Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima	Matilda Ekholm Georgina Póta	Asuka Sakai	Sakura Mori
Korea Open	Timo Boll	Feng Tianwei	Jang Woo-jin Jeong Sang-eun	Shan Xiaona Petrissa Solja	Lim Jong-hoon	Minami Ando
Bulgarian Open	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Kasumi Ishikawa	Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura	Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito	Mizuki Oikawa	Mizuki Morizono
Czech Open	Tomokazu Harimoto	Mima Ito	Patrick Franziska Jonathan Groth	Hina Hayata Mima Ito	Can Akkuzu	Adriana Díaz
Swedish Open	Xu Xin	Chen Xingtong	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin	Hina Hayata Mima Ito	Park Gang-hyeon	Zhang Rui

Finals

World Tour Platinum

Qatar Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Ma Long	Fan Zhendong	4–2 (11–8, 11–8, 11–7, 5–11, 6–11, 11–4)
Women's singles	Chen Meng	Wang Manyu	4–1 (12–10, 11–9, 11–6, 2–11, 11–6)
Men's doubles	Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima	Kristian Karlsson Mattias Karlsson	3–1 (9–11, 11–5, 11–5, 11–9)
Women's doubles	Chen Meng Wang Manyu	Jeon Ji-hee Yang Ha-eun	3–1 (11–4, 11–6, 4–11, 11–6)

Japan Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Ma Long	Fan Zhendong	4–1 (11–7, 5–11, 11–7, 11–8, 11–5)
Women's singles	Sun Yingsha	Chen Meng	4–3 (9–11, 11–9, 8–11, 8–11, 11–7, 11–9, 11–8)
Men's doubles	Xu Xin Ma Long	Koki Niwa Maharu Yoshimura	3–0 (11–9, 11–3, 11–7)
Women's doubles	Chen Xingtong Sun Yingsha	Jeon Ji-hee Yang Ha-eun	3–2 (10–12, 8–11 ,11–3 ,11–7, 11–6)

China Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Timo Boll	4–3 (17–15, 7–11, 12–10, 11–9, 7–11, 6–11, 12–10)
Women's singles	Ding Ning	Sun Yingsha	4–1 (8–11, 11–9, 11–4, 11–7, 11–6)
Men's doubles	Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura	Tomokazu Harimoto Yuto Kizukuri	3–1 (12–10, 9–11, 11–8, 11–9)
Women's doubles	Ding Ning Liu Shiwen	Chen Meng Zhu Yuling	3–1 (9–11, 11–7, 11–4, 12–10)

Australian Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Vladimir Samsonov	Simon Gauzy	4–1 (11–13, 11–8, 11–5, 11–8, 11–8)
Women's singles	Chen Meng	Wang Manyu	4–2 (3–11, 12–10, 3–11, 12–10, 11–2, 11–7)
Men's doubles	Jang Woo-jin Park Gang-hyeon	Chen Chien-an Chiang Hung-chieh	3–1 (11–2, 11–13, 11–5, 11–6)
Women's doubles	Chen Meng Zhu Yuling	Chen Xingtong Wang Manyu	3–0 (11–8, 11–9, 11–7)

Austrian Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Lin Gaoyuan	Yan An	4–1 (12–10, 11–9, 12–10, 10–12, 11–7)
Women's singles	Wang Manyu	Gu Yuting	4–0 (11–9, 12–10, 11–2, 11–9)
Men's doubles	Koki Niwa Jin Ueda	Ruwen Filus Ricardo Walther	3–1 (11–7, 9–11, 11–9, 11–8)
Women's doubles	Chen Xingtong Sun Yingsha	Honoka Hashimoto Hitomi Sato	3–2 (4–11, 11–7, 7–11, 12–10, 11–4)

German Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Timo Boll	4–3 (9–11, 11–5, 11–9, 6–11, 11–7, 7–11, 11–6)
Women's singles	Chen Meng	Zhu Yuling	4–3 (9–11, 8–11, 13–11, 9–11, 13–11, 11–9, 11–4)
Men's doubles	Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su	Tomokazu Harimoto Yuto Kizukuri	3–2 (8–11, 3–11, 11–5, 16–14, 11–6)
Women's doubles	Hina Hayata Miu Hirano	Chen Szu-yu Cheng I-ching	3–0 (11–7, 11–8, 11–9)

World Tour

Hungarian Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Yan An	Shang Kun	4–2 (13–11, 6–11, 11–7, 11–6, 10–12, 11–8)
Women's singles	Chen Xingtong	Wen Jia	4–1 (13–11, 8–11, 11–9, 11–9, 11–9)
Men's doubles	Fang Bo Zhou Yu	Hugo Calderano Gustavo Tsuboi	3–1 (11–6, 6–11, 11–8, 11–8)
Women's doubles	Chen Xingtong Li Jiayi	Matilda Ekholm Georgina Póta	3–1 (11–4, 11–6, 9–11, 11–8)

India Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Tomokazu Harimoto	4–0 (11–6, 11–8, 11–4, 14–12)
Women's singles	Sakura Mori	Matilda Ekholm	4–3 (7–11, 11–5, 11–8, 12–10, 6–11, 8–11, 11–6)
Men's doubles	Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima	Ruwen Filus Ricardo Walther	3–1 (9–11, 11–7, 11–6, 11–9)
Women's doubles	Matilda Ekholm Georgina Póta	Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching	3–2 (9–11, 11–3, 5–11, 14–12, 11–8)

Korea Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Timo Boll	Patrick Franziska	4–0 (11–8, 12–10, 12–10, 11–6)
Women's singles	Feng Tianwei	Kasumi Ishikawa	4–2 (12–10, 6–11, 11–9, 5–11, 11–8, 11–9)
Men's doubles	Jang Woo-jin Jeong Sang-eun	Patrick Franziska Jonathan Groth	3–2 (11–9, 8–11, 12–10, 7–11, 12–10)
Women's doubles	Shan Xiaona Petrissa Solja	Hina Hayata Mima Ito	3–1 (11–4, 11–3, 3–11, 11–9)

Bulgarian Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Kenta Matsudaira	4–1 (9–11, 11–7, 11–4, 11–9, 11–9)
Women's singles	Kasumi Ishikawa	Mima Ito	4–0 (12–10, 11–4, 11–7, 11–5)
Men's doubles	Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura	Soumyajit Ghosh Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	3–2 (11–13, 11–7, 11–4, 6–11, 11–5)
Women's doubles	Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito	Matilda Ekholm Georgina Póta	3–1 (6–11, 11–8, 11–9, 11–5)

Czech Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Tomokazu Harimoto	Timo Boll	4–2 (11–3, 4–11, 8–11, 11–9, 11–6, 11–9)
Women's singles	Mima Ito	Kasumi Ishikawa	4–1 (11–5, 15–13, 11–3, 9–11, 11–4)
Men's doubles	Patrick Franziska Jonathan Groth	Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura	3–1 (11–6, 8–11, 11–9, 11–8)
Women's doubles	Hina Hayata Mima Ito	Matilda Ekholm Georgina Póta	3–2 (11–5, 8–11, 8–11, 11–6, 11–8)

Swedish Open

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Xu Xin	Fan Zhendong	4–1 (6–11, 11–7, 11–9, 11–6, 11–2)
Women's singles	Chen Xingtong	Ding Ning	4–3 (11–9, 15–13, 10–12, 11–6, 6–11, 6–11, 11–9)
Men's doubles	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin	Ho Kwan Kit Wong Chun Ting	3–1 (6–11, 11–5, 11–6, 11–8)
Women's doubles	Hina Hayata Mima Ito	Chen Meng Zhu Yuling	3–1 (11–8, 1–11, 11–9, 11–9)

Standings

Singles

Points were accumulated during the singles tournaments at each of the twelve ITTF World Tour events.^[3] The 15 men and 16 women who played in at least five events and accumulated the largest number of points were invited to play in the Grand Finals in Astana in December. Kazakhstan's Kirill Gerassimenko was also invited to take part in the men's singles event, to ensure that the host nation was represented.^[20]

Men's singles – final standings[21] Rank after all 12 events Events Points 1 Dimitrij Ovtcharov 5 1,550 2 Ma Long 3 1,050 3 Timo Boll 5 1,000 4 Fan Zhendong 5 975 5 Lin Gaoyuan 6 744 6 Xu Xin 5 650 7 Tomokazu Harimoto 9 641 8 Yan An 4 616 9 Simon Gauzy 7 615 10 Vladimir Samsonov 6 614 11 Kenta Matsudaira 10 613 12 Fang Bo 5 594 13 Koki Niwa 9 560 14 Wong Chun Ting 6 433 15 Masaki Yoshida 5 375 16 Jun Mizutani 3 350 17 Yuya Oshima 9 347 18 Chuang Chih-yuan 7 332 19 Lee Sang-su 4 316 20 Marcos Freitas 6 272 21 Paul Drinkhall 5 264 22 Kristian Karlsson 8 253 23 Ruwen Filus 8 236 24 Maharu Yoshimura 10 228 25 Liang Jingkun 6 225 104 Kirill Gerassimenko 5 16

Women's singles – final standings[22] Rank after all 12 events Events Points 1 Chen Meng 8 2,162 2 Wang Manyu 5 1,400 3 Sun Yingsha 3 1,000 4 Kasumi Ishikawa 10 963 5 Mima Ito 9 766 6 Gu Yuting 5 756 7 Chen Xingtong 6 725 8 Zhu Yuling 5 713 9 Ding Ning 2 625 10 Feng Tianwei 6 550 11 Sakura Mori 10 438 12 Shan Xiaona 6 399 13 Hina Hayata 9 376 14= Miu Hirano 8 371 14= Han Ying 6 371 16 Doo Hoi Kem 7 329 17 Hitomi Sato 10 288 18 Cheng I-ching 6 282 19= Miyu Kato 10 268 19= Honoka Hashimoto 10 268 21= Chen Ke 4 216 21= Gu Ruochen 2 216 23= Liu Shiwen 1 200 23= Feng Yalan 1 200 25 Jeon Ji-hee 7 199

Player met the qualification criteria for the Grand Finals and competed at the event   Player did not qualify for the Grand Finals, either due to not meeting the qualification criteria or not finishing in a high enough position Doubles[edit] Points were accumulated during the doubles tournaments at each of the twelve ITTF World Tour events.[3] The eight men's pairs and eight women's pairs who played in at least four events and accumulated the largest number of points, as a pair, were invited to play in the Grand Finals in Astana in December.[20] Men's doubles – final standings[23] Rank after all 12 events Events Points 1 Jin Ueda / Maharu Yoshimura 4 675 2 Masataka Morizono / Yuya Oshima 6 645 3 Ruwen Filus / Ricardo Walther 8 357 4 Jung Young-sik / Lee Sang-su 2 350 5 Ho Kwan Kit / Wong Chun Ting 6 345 6 Patrick Franziska / Jonathan Groth 4 338 7 Tomokazu Harimoto / Yuto Kizukuri 4 332 8= Jang Woo-jin / Park Gang-hyeon 2 319 8= Koki Niwa / Jin Ueda 2 319 10 Fan Zhendong / Xu Xin 3 313 11 Ma Long / Xu Xin 1 300 12 Fang Bo / Zhou Yu 2 275 13 Chen Chien-an / Chiang Hung-chieh 4 239 14 Kristian Karlsson / Mattias Karlsson 4 226 15 Robin Devos / Cédric Nuytinck 7 207 16 Jang Woo-jin / Jeong Sang-eun 1 200 17 Koki Niwa / Maharu Yoshimura 3 182 18 Gao Ning / Pang Xue Jie 6 170 19 Jiang Tianyi / Lam Siu Hang 6 158 20= Hugo Calderano / Gustavo Tsuboi 2 138 20= Tristan Flore / Emmanuel Lebesson 3 138 Women's doubles – final standings[24] Rank after all 12 events Events Points 1 Hina Hayata / Mima Ito 5 613 2 Chen Xingtong / Sun Yingsha 2 600 3 Chen Meng / Zhu Yuling 4 588 4 Matilda Ekholm / Georgina Póta 5 519 5 Jeon Ji-hee / Yang Ha-eun 6 488 6 Doo Hoi Kem / Lee Ho Ching 7 432 7 Chen Szu-yu / Cheng I-ching 5 363 8 Chen Meng / Wang Manyu 2 338 9 Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Sato 4 325 10= Ding Ning / Liu Shiwen 1 300 10= Hina Hayata / Miu Hirano 1 300 12 Kasumi Ishikawa / Mima Ito 2 219 13 Barbora Balážová / Hana Matelová 7 201 14 Shan Xiaona / Petrissa Solja 1 200 15 Chen Xingtong / Wang Manyu 1 150 16 Ng Wing Nam / Soo Wai Yam Minnie 5 145 17 Lin Ye / Zhou Yihan 6 133 18 Han Ying / Shan Xiaona 5 127 19 Feng Tianwei / Yu Mengyu 3 95 20= Miyu Kato / Miyu Nagasaki 2 88 20= Gu Yuting / Soo Wai Yam Minnie 2 88   Pair met the qualification criteria for the Grand Finals and competed at the event   Pair met the qualification criteria for the Grand Finals, but withdrew prior to the event   Pair did not qualify for the Grand Finals, either due to not meeting the qualification criteria or not finishing in a high enough position Grand Finals[edit] Main article: 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals The 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 14–17 December 2017.[18] ITTF Challenge Series[edit] In addition to the twelve ITTF World Tour events, eleven ITTF Challenge Series events also took place in 2017. These events were held in Belarus, Thailand, Chile, Slovenia, Croatia, Brazil, North Korea, Nigeria, Poland, Belgium and Spain.[25] For the first time, the Challenge Series did not form part of the main ITTF World Tour.[26] See also[edit] 2017 World Table Tennis Championships 2017 ITTF Men's World Cup 2017 ITTF Women's World Cup 2017 in table tennis References[edit] ^ "ITTF Announces 12 Host Cities for New & Improved 2017 World Tour". ITTF. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016. ^ "2017 ITTF World Tour prize money distribution" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017. ^ a b c "2017 ITTF World Tour points allocation" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 20 November 2017.[permanent dead link] ^ "ITTF Secures World Tour Title Sponsorship & Strategic Partnership with Seamaster". ITTF. Retrieved 15 January 2017. ^ "2017 ITTF World Tour Calendar" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017. 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