2023 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's singles

The men's singles competition of the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 20 to 28 May 2023. The event was played as a straight knockout. All singles matches were best of 7 games.

By making the final, Fan Zhendong retained the ITTF no. 1 singles ranking. Wang Chuqin and Ma Long were also in contention for the ITTF no. 1 singles ranking.

Seeds
Singles events had 32 seeded players. Seeding was based on the ITTF world ranking published on 16 May 2023.


 * 1) 🇨🇳 Fan Zhendong (champion)
 * 2) 🇨🇳 Wang Chuqin (final)
 * 3) 🇨🇳 Ma Long (semifinals)
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Tomokazu Harimoto (quarterfinals)
 * 5) 🇨🇳 Liang Jingkun (semifinals)
 * 6) 🇧🇷 Hugo Calderano (first round)
 * 7) 🇸🇪 Truls Möregårdh (third round)
 * 8) 🇨🇳 Lin Gaoyuan (quarterfinals)
 * 9)  Lin Yun-ju (fourth round)
 * 10) 🇩🇪 Dang Qiu (fourth round)
 * 11) 🇰🇷 Lim Jong-hoon (fourth round)
 * 12)  Quadri Aruna (second round)
 * 13)  Darko Jorgić (fourth round)
 * 14) 🇰🇷 Jang Woo-jin (fourth round)
 * 15) 🇩🇪 Dimitrij Ovtcharov (third round)
 * 16) 🇩🇪 Patrick Franziska (third round)
 * 17) 🇫🇷 Alexis Lebrun (third round)
 * 18) 🇯🇵 Yukiya Uda (third round)
 * 19)  Chuang Chih-yuan (third round)
 * 20) 🇸🇪 Kristian Karlsson (third round)
 * 21) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liam Pitchford (first round)
 * 22) 🇸🇪 Anton Källberg (first round)
 * 23)  Andrej Gaćina (first round)
 * 24) 🇸🇪 Mattias Falck (first round)
 * 25) 🇩🇪 Ruwen Filus (third round)
 * 26) 🇭🇰 Wong Chun Ting (third round)
 * 27) 🇩🇪 Benedikt Duda (first round)
 * 28) 🇰🇷 Lee Sang-su (third round)
 * 29) 🇪🇬 Omar Assar (quarterfinals)
 * 30) 🇫🇷 Félix Lebrun (third round)
 * 31) 🇫🇷 Simon Gauzy (second round)
 * 32) 🇸🇰 Wang Yang (second 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

Seeded Players
The following are the seeded players, based on the ITTF world ranking published on 16 May 2023.

Players are defending points from the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, 2021 WTT Cup Finals and 2021 WTT Feeder, Dusseldorf if points from the tournaments are from the player's 8 best results.

† Points from the player's 9th best result or 10th best result. & No change in points because points from this tournament did not count as one of the player's 8 best results.