2023 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's singles

The women'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.

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


 * 1) 🇨🇳 Sun Yingsha (champion)
 * 2) 🇨🇳 Wang Manyu (quarterfinals)
 * 3) 🇨🇳 Chen Meng (final)
 * 4) 🇨🇳 Wang Yidi (quarterfinals)
 * 5) 🇨🇳 Chen Xingtong (semifinals)
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Mima Ito (quarterfinals)
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Hina Hayata (semifinals)
 * 8) 🇩🇪 Han Ying (quarterfinals)
 * 9)  Adriana Díaz (fourth round)
 * 10) 🇦🇹 Sofia Polcanova (first round)
 * 11) 🇩🇪 Nina Mittelham (fourth round)
 * 12)  Cheng I-ching (fourth round)
 * 13) 🇫🇷 Jia Nan Yuan (third round)
 * 14) 🇯🇵 Miyuu Kihara (fourth round)
 * 15) 🇯🇵 Miu Hirano (fourth round)
 * 16) 🇭🇰 Doo Hoi Kem (second round)
 * 17) 🇷🇴 Bernadette Szőcs (third round)
 * 18) 🇺🇸 Lily Zhang (first round)
 * 19) 🇰🇷 Shin Yu-bin (fourth round)
 * 20) 🇩🇪 Shan Xiaona (third round)
 * 21) 🇪🇬 Dina Meshref (third round)
 * 22)  Chen Szu-yu (first round)
 * 23)  Fu Yu (third round)
 * 24) 🇯🇵 Miyu Nagasaki (third round)
 * 25) 🇹🇭 Suthasini Sawettabut (second round)
 * 26) 🇰🇷 Jeon Ji-hee (third round)
 * 27) 🇷🇴 Elizabeta Samara (third round)
 * 28) 🇪🇬 Hana Goda (second round)
 * 29) 🇧🇷 Bruna Takahashi (first round)
 * 30) 🇮🇳 Manika Batra (third round)
 * 31) 🇰🇷 Choi Hyo-joo (second round)
 * 32) 🇩🇪 Sabine Winter (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