The 2017
ITTF World Tour Grand Finals The ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, formerly named ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals, is an annual table tennis tournament sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) at the end of the year. The tournament includes seven events: men's and wome ...
was the final competition of the
2017 ITTF World Tour, the
International Table Tennis Federation
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national table tennis associations. The role of the ITTF includes overseeing rules and regulations and seeking technological improvement for the sport of table tenni ...
's professional
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
world tour. It was the 22nd edition of the competition, and was held from 14 to 17 December in
Astana
Astana, previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, is the capital city of Kazakhstan.
The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, tho ...
,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
.
The competition featured events in four categories: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles.
Events
Qualification
Players earned points based on their performances in the singles and doubles tournaments at the 12 events of the
2017 ITTF World Tour. The top 15 men's singles players, the top 16 women's singles players, and the top eight men's and women's doubles pairs who satisfied the qualification criteria were invited to compete. Kazakhstan's
Kirill Gerassimenko
Kirill Gerassimenko (born 18 December 1996) is a Kazakhstani table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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was the 16th player added to the men's singles event to ensure that the host nation was represented.
Tournament format
The singles and doubles tournaments consisted of knockout draws, with 16 players starting each of the singles events and eight pairs starting each of the doubles events. The seedings for the tournament draws were based on final
tour standings, not the official
ITTF world ranking
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second.
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.
Men's singles
Players
Draw
Women's singles
Players
Draw
Men's doubles
Players
Draw
Women's doubles
Players
Draw
ITTF Star Awards
The 2017
ITTF Star Awards ceremony was held on the first evening of the Grand Finals at the Rixos President Hotel on 14 December.
Awards were handed out in eight categories:
*Male Table Tennis Star:
Timo Boll
Timo Boll (, ; born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia Düsseldorf. He is ranked second in the German Table Tennis National League, and fifteen in the ITTF world rankings as of October 20 ...
*Female Table Tennis Star:
Ding Ning
Ding Ning (; born 20 June 1990) is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships.
At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Ding won her second world title in ...
*Male Para Table Tennis Star:
Viktor Didukh
*Female Para Table Tennis Star:
Neslihan Kavas
*Table Tennis Star Coach:
Jörg Roßkopf
Jörg Roßkopf (born May 22, 1969 in Dieburg, Hesse) is a former professional German table tennis player who is currently the head coach of the German Men's National Table Tennis Team. As a player, he won the title in Men's Doubles at the 1989 Wo ...
*Table Tennis Breakthrough Star:
Tomokazu Harimoto
*Table Tennis Star Point:
Ding Ning
Ding Ning (; born 20 June 1990) is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships.
At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Ding won her second world title in ...
(versus
Zhu Yuling
Zhu Yuling (; born 10 January 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player.
Career
She was born in Mianyang in 1995 and played table tennis from the age of 5 as it occupied her when she was ill. At nine years old she and her mother moved so that she ...
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at the 2017 World Championships
*Fair Play Star:
Irvin Bertrand
See also
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2017 World Table Tennis Championships
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2017 ITTF Men's World Cup
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2017 ITTF Women's World Cup
The 2017 ITTF Women's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Markham, Ontario, from 27 to 29 October 2017. It was the 21st edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the first time that it had been staged in Canada.
In the final, Chin ...
References
External links
2017 ITTF World Tour Grand FinalsInternational Table Tennis Federation
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