2017 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's doubles explained

Event:	Men's doubles
Competition:	2017 World Table Tennis Championships
Venue:	Messe Düsseldorf
Location:	Düsseldorf, Germany
Dates:	29 May – 4 June
Win Label:	Final score
Win Value:	11–9, 16–14, 11–9, 6–11, 13–11
Gold:	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin
Gold Nation:	CHN
Silver:	Masataka Morizono Yuya Oshima
Silver Nation:	JPN
Bronze:	Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su
Bronze Nation:	KOR
Bronze2:	Koki Niwa Maharu Yoshimura
Bronze2 Nation:	JPN
Prev:	2015
Next:	2019

See main article: 2017 World Table Tennis Championships.

The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles was the 54th edition of the men's doubles championship.^{[1] [2]}

Xu Xin and Zhang Jike were the defending champions but Zhang did not compete this year.^[3]

Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin defeated Masataka Morizono and Yuya Oshima 11–9, 16–14, 11–9, 6–11, 13–11 in the final to win the title.^[4]

Seeds

Matches were best of 5 games in qualification and best of 7 games in the 64-player sized main draw.^{[5] [6]}

1. Masataka Morizono / Yuya Oshima (final)
2. Patrick Franziska / Jonathan Groth (third round)
3. Fan Zhendong / Xu Xin (champion)
4. Jung Young-sik / Lee Sang-su (semifinals)
5. Hugo Calderano / Gustavo Tsuboi (third round)
6. Alexey Liventsov/ Mikhail Paikov (first round)
7. Ho Kwan Kit / Wong Chun Ting (quarterfinals)
8. Kristian Karlsson / Mattias Karlsson (third round)
9. Koki Niwa / Maharu Yoshimura (semifinals)
10. Robin Devos / Cedric Nuytinck (second round)
11. Ruwen Filus/ Ricardo Walther (first round)
12. Chen Chien-an / Liao Cheng-ting (quarterfinals)
13. Jang Woo-jin/ Jeong Sang-eun (first round)
14. Jakub Dyjas / Daniel Górak (third round)
15. Jiang Tianyi / Lam Siu Hang (second round)
16. Sharath Kamal / Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (second round)
17. Timo Boll / Ma Long (third round)
18. Nándor Ecseki/ Ádám Szudi (first round)
19. Quadri Aruna / Segun Toriola (second round)
20. Tristan Flore / Emmanuel Lebesson (second round)
21. Gao Ning / Pang Xue Jie (third round)
22. Nima Alamian / Noshad Alamian (second round)
23. Pär Gerell / Anton Kallberg (second round)
24. Gaston Alto/ Horacio Cifuentes (first round)
25. Tomáš Konečný / Tomaš Polansky (first round)
26. El-sayed Lashin/ Ahmed Saleh (first round)
27. Brian Afanador/ Daniel González (first round)
28. Cristian Pletea / Hunor Szőcs (second round)
29. Eric Jouti/ Cazuo Matsumoto (second round)
30. Harmeet Desai / Soumyajit Ghosh (second round)
31. Aleksandar Karakašević / Wang Zengyi (second round)
32. Robert Gardos/ Daniel Habesohn (first round)

Draw

Top half

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 4

External links

• Main draw

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of Winners. All About Table Tennis.
2. Web site: 2017 results. https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsMD.pdf. dead. 2012-04-12. International Table Tennis Federation.
3. Web site: Entry list . 2017-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510165657/http://www.old.ittf.com/ittf_tournaments/ittf_entries_doubles_wttc_web.asp?Gender=M&Tour_ID=2705&Doubles=1 . 2017-05-10 . dead .
4. Web site: Press Release: China Defends Men's Doubles Crown at ITTF World Championships. 4 June 2017. ittf.com.
5. Web site: Playing system . 2017-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113132/http://www.old.ittf.com/World_Events/2017WTTC/Playing_system_WTTC2017.pdf . 2017-03-29 . dead .
6. http://d3mjm6zw6cr45s.cloudfront.net/2016/11/2017_WTTC_MD.pdf Seeds