ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals 2025: Preview, schedule, how to watch live action from Doha

The 2025 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals head to Doha, Qatar, from 17–25 May, returning to the city after 21 years away.

Athletes from the People's Republic of China won all five events two years ago in Durban, South Africa, and have won the men's and women's singles world titles at every edition since 2005 – but will that 20-year run come to an end?

Werner Schlager in 2003 was the last non-Chinese singles world champion, but this year Brazil's Hugo Calderano will enter as the men's singles World Cup winner, a title he won barely a month ago in Macau, China.

Some 600 or so paddlers from all five continents will be in Doha to compete in men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles. There will be a brand new men's singles world champion, with no previous winner competing in Doha; the defending champion pairs in both men's and women's doubles are also not competing. Only Sun Yingsha in women's singles, and mixed doubles alongside Wang Chuqin, will be in action defending titles.

Discover what you need to know about the 58th edition of the World Championships below.

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