The ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals 2025 in Doha concluded with European players claiming four medals. In the Women’s Doubles event, Austria’s Sofia POLCANOVA and Romania’s Bernadette SZOCS clinched silver, while Sweden’s Truls MOREGÅRD secured bronze in Men’s Singles. France also celebrated two bronze medals in Men’s Doubles through the pairings of Alexis and Félix LEBRUN, and Florian BOURRASSAUD and Esteban DORR. In the Men’s Singles final, China’s WANG Chuqin captured the St. Bride Vase, defeating Brazil’s Hugo CALDERANO in commanding fashion (12–10, 11–3, 4–11, 11–2, 11–7). Truls MOREGÅRD’s road to the semifinals featured wins over Francisco SANCHI, Andreas LEVENKO, KAO Cheng-Jui, JANG Woojin, and Shunsuke TOGAMI, before falling to second seed Wang Chuqin 4–1 in the semis. Other Europeans who reached the Round of 16 included France’s Simon GAUZY and Félix LEBRUN, Germany’s Patrick FRANZISKA, Slovenia’s Darko JORGIC, England’s Tom JARVIS, and Sweden’s Anton KÄLLBERG. In the Women’s Doubles final, POLCANOVA and SZOCS were defeated by China’s WANG Manyu and KUAI Man in straight games (11–6, 11–6, 11–5). On their way to the final, they overcame the pairings of Mubanga KUNDA and Latifa NALAVWE, Clio BARCENAS and Arantxa COSSIO, Hana MATELOVA and Barbora BALAZOVA, Sabine WINTER and Yuan WAN, and SHIN Yubin and RYU Hanna. The quarterfinals also featured Spain’s Maria XIAO and Romania’s Adina DIACONU, as well as Germany’s Sabine WINTER and Yuan WAN. In the Women’s Singles final, China’s Sun Yingsha successfully defended her crown with a thrilling 4–3 victory over WANG Manyu (11–6, 12–10, 8–11, 5–11, 12–10, 11–13, 11–7). Croatia’s Lea RAKOVEC delivered one of the tournament’s biggest surprises by reaching the Round of 16 despite being ranked only No. 134 in the world. She was joined in that stage by No. 20 seed Prithika PAVADE of France and No. 11 seed Bernadette SZOCS of Romania, although all three fell short of the quarterfinals. Japan’s Shunsuke TOGAMI and Hiroto SHINOZUKA were crowned Men’s Doubles World Champions after defeating Taiwan’s LIN Yun-Ju and KAO Cheng-Jui in the final (6–11, 11–5, 7–11, 11–6, 11–6). French brothers Félix and Alexis LEBRUN, the top seeds, claimed bronze after their semifinal loss to the Taiwanese duo. Florian BOURRASSAUD and Esteban DORR of France also secured bronze but were forced to withdraw from their semifinal match due to a knee injury sustained by DORR. Other European quarterfinalists included Sweden’s Kristian KARLSSON and Mattias FALCK, who lost to the LEBRUN brothers, and the Romanian–Spanish duo Ovidiu IONESCU and Álvaro ROBLES, who were eliminated by the second French pairing. In the Mixed Doubles event, Álvaro ROBLES and Maria XIAO of Spain reached the quarterfinals. Among those who competed in the Round of 16 were Robert GARDOS and Sofia POLCANOVA of Austria, Ľubomír PIŠTEJ and Barbora BALÁŽOVÁ of Slovakia, Samuel KULCZYCKI and Zuzanna WIELGOS of Poland, and Ovidiu IONESCU and Elizabeta SAMARA of Romania.
