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 six events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, U21 men's and women's singles. Players who accumulated largest numbers of points in previous ITTF World Tour are qualified for the event, and competing for total prize money of US$500,000, the biggest total prize money event in the ITTF calendar.

If more than 1 player or pair have the same ranking on the World Tour standing when they compete for the last spot, the spot belongs to the player or the pair with higher ITTF world ranking.

All the matches in World Tour Grand Finals are played best of 7 games.

16 players (or 8 pairs in doubles) advance towards next round under a knockout system. The top 8 players (or the top 4 pairs in doubles) on the World Tour standing will avoid to compete each other in the first rounds.

8 players are at first separated into two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top 2 players in each group advance towards a knockout.

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