Japan Open (table tennis)

The Japan Open was an annual table tennis tournament in Japan, run by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It was part of the ITTF World Tour.

Japan Open
Tournament information
Tour	ITTF World Tour
Sponsor	LION (from 2017)
Founded	1989
Location	Kitakyushu (2018)
Venue	Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium (2018)
Category	World Tour
Draw	32S / 16D
Prize money	US$170,000 (2018)
Current champions (2018)
Men's singles	Tomokazu Harimoto
Women's singles	Mima Ito
Men's doubles	Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su
Women's doubles	Gu Yuting Mu Zi

History

The tournament was first held in 1989, and was featured on the ITTF World Tour's schedule every year since the Tour's inception in 1996.^[1]

Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner and Germany's Timo Boll jointly hold the record for most men's singles tournament wins, with three each, while Wang Nan of China holds the record for most women's singles tournament wins, with four.

In August 2016, it was announced by the ITTF that Tokyo has been chosen as one of six cities to host a "World Tour Platinum" event in 2017. These events will replace the Super Series as the top tier of the ITTF World Tour.^[2]

Champions

Individual Events

1989–2017

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles
1989	Ma Wenge	Chan Tan Lui	Kiyoshi Saito Yuji Matsushita	Hu Xiaoxin Qiao Hong
1990	Jan-Ove Waldner	Chen Zihe	Erik Lindh Jörgen Persson	Ding Yaping Li Jun
1991	Jan-Ove Waldner	Deng Yaping	Wang Yonggan Yu Shentong	Deng Yaping Qiao Hong
1992	Wang Tao	Deng Yaping	Ma Wenge Yu Shentong	Hong Cha-ok Hyun Jung-hwa
1993	Wang Tao	Chai Po Wa	Lü Lin Wang Tao	Kim Boon-sik Park Hae-jung
1994	Wenguan Johnny Huang	Tang Weiyi
1995	Ding Song	Park Hae-jung
1996	Ding Song	Qiao Hong	Kang Hee-chan Kim Taek-soo	Park Hae-jung Ryu Ji-hae
1997	Jan-Ove Waldner	Wang Chen	Wang Liqin Yan Sen	Lee Eun-sil Ryu Ji-hae
1998	Kong Linghui	Li Ju	Ma Lin Wang Tao	Li Ju Wang Nan
1999	Vladimir Samsonov	Wang Nan	Ma Lin Qin Zhijian	Sun Jin Yang Ying
2000	Wang Liqin	Wang Nan	Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang	Sun Jin Yang Ying
2001	Chiang Peng-lung	Wang Nan	Ma Lin Wang Hao	Kim Bok-rae Kim Kyung-ah
2002	Kalinikos Kreanga	Kim Kyung-ah	Akira Kito Toshio Tasaki	Jing Junhong Li Jiawei
2003	Timo Boll	Guo Yue	Chen Qi Ma Lin	Guo Yue Niu Jianfeng
2004	Chen Qi	Zhang Yining	Wang Liqin Yan Sen	Guo Yue Niu Jianfeng
2005	Timo Boll	Zhang Yining	Timo Boll Christian Süß	Bai Yang Cao Zhen
2006	Wang Liqin	Wang Yuegu	Ma Lin Wang Hao	Tie Ya Na Zhang Rui
2007	Wang Hao	Wang Nan	Chen Qi Wang Liqin	Guo Yue Li Xiaoxia
2008	Ma Lin	Zhang Yining
2009	Oh Sang-eun	Park Mi-young	Seiya Kishikawa Jun Mizutani	Sayaka Hirano Reiko Hiura
2010	Timo Boll	Wang Yuegu	Kenta Matsudaira Koki Niwa	Yuka Ishigaki Yuri Yamanashi
2011	Seiya Kishikawa	Feng Tianwei	Lin Gaoyuan Wu Jiaji	Hiroko Fujii Misako Wakamiya
2012	Jun Mizutani	Shen Yanfei	Kim Min-seok Seo Hyun-deok	Hiroko Fujii Misako Wakamiya
2013	Masato Shiono	Ai Fukuhara	Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura	Gu Yuting Zhou Xintong
2014	Yu Ziyang	Feng Tianwei	Seiya Kishikawa Jun Mizutani	Ai Fukuhara Misako Wakamiya
2015	Xu Xin	Chen Meng	Ma Long Xu Xin	Liu Fei Wu Yang
2016[3]	Fan Zhendong	Liu Shiwen	Ma Long Xu Xin	Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia
2017	Ma Long	Sun Yingsha	Ma Long Xu Xin	Chen Xingtong Sun Yingsha

2018–present

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
2018	Tomokazu Harimoto	Mima Ito	Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su	Gu Yuting Mu Zi	Liang Jingkun Chen Xingtong
2019	Xu Xin	Sun Yingsha	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin	Chen Meng Liu Shiwen	Xu Xin Zhu Yuling

Team Events

Year	Men's Team	Women's Team
1989	Czechoslovakia	China
1990	Sweden	China
1991	Sweden	China
1992	China	China
1994	China	China
1995	South Korea	South Korea
2008	China	China

See also

• Asian Table Tennis Union