World Table Tennis Championships Finals Betting Tips
The best players in the world are in Doha for nine days of top-class action at the 2025 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals.
Two venues, the Lusail Multipurpose Hall and Qatar University Complex, will host hundreds of matches featuring the world's biggest names, with the mixed doubles final scheduled for May 24 and the other four finals - both singles and men's and women's doubles - on May 25.
Tip 1: Wang Chuqin to win men's singles
Chinese players have won the men's singles at each of the past 10 World Championships, and there does not appear much point looking beyond the top seeds, Lin Shidong and Wang Chuqin.
Of the pair, Wang gets the nod, especially if he can reproduce what he delivered at the Champions Chongqing in March.
Wang was unstoppable, not dropping a set before the semis where he crushed Tomokazu Harimoto 4-1 before stunning Lin 4-1 in the final.
Lin, the world No.1, has been super-consistent for eight months, but this is his first World Championships, and there will be pressure on his shoulders.
Wang, who also beat Lin in this year's Asian Cup, was world silver-medallist two years ago in Durban and is in the mood to go one better in Doha.
Tip 2: Felix Lebrun each-way men's singles
You have to go back to 2003 for the last European winner of the men's singles - Austrian Werner Schlager - and 1993 for the last French winner, Jean-Philippe Gatien.
The Lebrun brothers are flying Le tricolore in the Gulf with Felix taken to outshine older brother Alexis and have a run at the final.
Interestingly, the brothers are seeded to meet in the fourth round, and Felix would get the nod of the two.
The 18-year-old reigning French national champion won a WTT event last year - the first French player to do so - and has the game to challenge the cream of Asia.
Tip 3: Miwa Harimoto to win women's singles
All eyes are on Sun Yingsha, reigning champion and undisputed world No.1.
Sun reeled off four whitewashes in Durban before seeing off Hina Mayata and Chen Yeng in the semis and final, respectively, two years ago.
She is playing better than ever, winning the singles crown in five of her last six World Table Tennis events.
There are dangers, among them compatriot and former world champion Wang Manyu, though it is one of the game's rising stars who can outrun a fancy price, and that's 16-year-old Japanese starlet Miwa Harimoto.
She is seeded No.5 in Doha and in the opposite half of the draw to Sun, and the younger sister of men's star Tomokazu Harimoto is such an exciting talent.
This is her debut, and there will be pressure, but the right-hander looks fearless and can go all the way.