Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's singles

The women's singles table tennis event was a part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 1 August 2012 at ExCeL London. The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists.

The draw was conducted on 25 July 2012.

Schedule
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Seeds
Seeds were based on the ITTF World Ranking lists published in July 2012. The top 16 seeded players qualified directly to the third round.


 * 1)  (final, silver medalist)
 * 2)  (champion, gold medalist)
 * 3)  (quarterfinals)
 * 4)  (semifinals, fourth place)
 * 5)  (quarterfinals)
 * 6)  (semifinals, bronze medalist)
 * 7)  (third round)
 * 8)  (quarterfinals)
 * 9)  (fourth round)
 * 10)  (fourth round)
 * 11)  (quarterfinals)
 * 12)  (fourth round)
 * 13)  (fourth round)
 * 14)  (fourth round)
 * 15)  (fourth round)
 * 16)  (fourth round)

The players ranked from 17 to 32 qualified directly to the second round.

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