With less than 20 days remaining before the highly anticipated ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals Doha 2025, excitement continues to build as the official draw ceremony approaches. The draws will take place on Wednesday, 30 April 2025, and will be live-streamed for table tennis fans worldwide on ITTF’s YouTube.

The draw ceremony represents a crucial moment for players as they learn their path for the prestigious tournament. The latest ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Lists (Week 18), to be published on Tuesday, 29 April 2025, will determine seedings for all events. With seeding positions directly tied to tomorrow’s ranking publication, players and fans will be keeping a close eye on these critical rankings that will shape the tournament’s competitive landscape.

The World Championships will feature five individual events – Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, and Mixed Doubles – all played in a straight knockout format.

In the singles events, 32 players will be seeded and placed into predetermined positions, with the remaining competitors randomly drawn into the 96 available positions to complete the 128-player bracket. For doubles events, 16 pairs will be seeded, with the remaining pairs drawn randomly into the 48 available positions to complete the 64-pair bracket. All singles matches will be contested as best-of-7 games, while doubles matches will be best-of-5 games. The tournament rewards will include gold medals for event winners, silver medals for finalists, and bronze medals for semi-finalists.

The ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals represent the pinnacle of individual achievement in the sport, bringing together the world’s elite players in one of the most prestigious competitions on the table tennis calendar.