The 217 ITTF year-end finals will be held from December 14th to 17th. As a result, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Fang Bo and Lin Gaoyuan, men's singles table tennis, may meet in the quarter finals in advance. In the women's singles, Chen Meng and Zhu Yuling led the fight against the Japanese legion led by Hirano Miwoo and Ishikawa Kasumi, and the teenager Gu Yuting played against Hirano Miwoo in the first round.
In men's singles, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan and Fang Bo from China played. According to the draw, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin entered the lower half. Fan Zhendong played against Chinese Taipei star Chuan Chih Yuan in the first round, while Xu Xin's opponent in the first round was Japanese Kentai Matsuhei. If both of them win, there will be a civil war in the eight-to-four competition, and the winner will meet German star Bohr or Belarusian veteran samsonov in the semi-final. Bohr and samsonov's first-round opponents were Yukiya Oshima and Huang Zhen Ting from Hongkong, China.
Fang Bo and Lin Gaoyuan entered the upper half. They played against French Simon Goz and Japanese Yoshida Yoshida respectively in the first round. If they both win their first opponents, they will start a civil war in the quarter-finals like Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin. Ochalov, the new World Cup champion, sits in the upper half, facing Koki Niwa of Japan in the first round, Japanese teenager Zhang Benzhi and the winner of Kazakhstan's Grassmick in the quarter-finals, and is expected to play Fang Bo or Lin Gaoyuan in the semi-finals.
Chen Meng, Zhu Yuling, Gu Yuting, Chen Xingtong and Manyu Wang participated in the women's singles table tennis. According to the lottery, Chen Meng and Gu Yuting entered the upper half. Chen Meng took on Du Kaixun in China and Hongkong in the first round. If he wins, the opponents in the quarter-finals will be between Zheng Yijing of Chinese Taipei and Singaporean veteran Feng Tianwei. Gu Yuting's opponent in the first round was Hirano Miwoo of Japan, and she met the winner of Ishikawa Kasumi and German Han Ying in the quarter-finals.
Zhu Yuling, the defending champion in the second half, faced Hayata Hina of Japan in the first round and the winner of teammate Manyu Wang and Sato Sato in the quarter-final. In the first round, Chen Xingtong played against another German player, Shan Xiaona. In the quarter-final, he met Ito Meicheng and Morisakura, the winners of the first round of Japanese derby, and strived to join Zhu Yuling or Manyu Wang in the semi-finals.