2023 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's doubles

The men's doubles competition of the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 20 to 27 May 2023. The event was played as a straight knockout. All doubles matches were best of 5 games.

Seeds
Doubles events had 16 seeded pairs. Seeding was based on the ITTF world ranking published on 16 May 2023.


 * 1) 🇨🇳 Wang Chuqin / 🇨🇳 Fan Zhendong (champions)
 * 2) 🇰🇷 Lim Jong-hoon / 🇰🇷 Jang Woo-jin (final)
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Shunsuke Togami / 🇯🇵 Yukiya Uda (third round)
 * 4) 🇸🇪 Mattias Falck / 🇸🇪 Kristian Karlsson (quarterfinals)
 * 5) 🇩🇪 Benedikt Duda / 🇩🇪 Dang Qiu (first round)
 * 6) 🇨🇳 Lin Gaoyuan / 🇨🇳 Lin Shidong (quarterfinals)
 * 7) 🇰🇷 Cho Dae-seong / 🇰🇷 Lee Sang-su (semifinals)
 * 8) 🇦🇷 Horacio Cifuentes / 🇦🇷 Gastón Alto (first round)
 * 9) 🇦🇹 Daniel Habesohn / 🇦🇹 Robert Gardos (third round)
 * 10) 🇧🇪 Cedric Nuytinck / 🇵🇱 Jakub Dyjas (second round)
 * 11) 🇭🇰 Ho Kwan Kit / 🇭🇰 Wong Chun Ting (second round)
 * 12) 🇫🇷 Félix Lebrun / 🇫🇷 Alexis Lebrun (third round)
 * 13) 🇭🇺 Nándor Ecseki / 🇭🇺 Ádám Szudi (quarterfinals)
 * 14) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Drinkhall / 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liam Pitchford (quarterfinals)
 * 15)  Darko Jorgić / 🇨🇿 Tomáš Polanský (third round)
 * 16) 🇪🇸 Álvaro Robles / 🇷🇴 Ovidiu Ionescu (third round)

Draw
The draw took place on 18 May. Players of the same association were separated only in the first round of the draw.

Key

 * r = Retired
 * w/o = Walkover