US Open Table Tennis Championships-2025 (16–21 December 2025)

[GAOdp]

US Open Table Tennis Championships-2025 is an annual table tennis tournament that has been held since 1931 and will be staged for the 97th time in 2025. The event is organized by USA Table Tennis, the non-profit national governing body for table tennis in the United States, responsible for the registration and sanctioning of table tennis tournaments nationwide. The championships will take place December 16–21, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Participants

All players must be USATT “Pro” or “Lifetime” members, or purchase Basic USATT membership and pay the tournament entry fee (USD 75). Membership must be valid through December 21, 2025.
Participants in the 2025 US Open may not enter two events that are scheduled to start at the same time.
The maximum number of events a participant may enter at the 2025 US Open is ten (10).
The maximum number of events a participant may enter on a single competition day at the 2025 US Open is three (3).

Playing format:

All matches at the 2025 U.S. Open Table Tennis Championships will be played under the 11-point scoring system. Men’s and women’s singles events, starting from the semifinal stage, will be played as best-of-seven games (games to 11 points). All doubles events and singles matches prior to that stage will be played as best-of-five games (games to 11 points).
Doubles events will be conducted using a single-elimination (knockout) format. In singles events, when the number of participants is large, a group stage will be introduced, followed by a knockout stage in the second phase of the competition.

Useful links

U.S. Open-2025 — championship section on the official USATT website
2025 U.S. OPEN TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS - Prospectus — tournament prospectus
2025 U.S. OPEN TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS - All players — list of tournament participants (as of December 17, 2025)
2025 U.S. OPEN TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS - Event Draws and Results — full results (as of December 17, 2025)
2024 U.S Open Championship - usatabletennis — tournament photo albums on the USA Table Tennis Flickr page
USA Table Tennis - Photos — tournament photos on the official USA Table Tennis Facebook page
2025 US Open Championships — LIVE broadcasts on the USA Table Tennis YouTube channel

 

[plunder]

any famous or world-class players in the draw?

 

[NextLevel]

any famous or world-class players in the draw?

Ma Jinbao qualify?

 

[plunder]

i had a quick glance over the first two placed players and didn't recognize any names but looeelooee's:
his movements remind me of Benyamin Farayi

 

[Table10Ice]

Anyone from the forum participating in this years' event?

 

[piligrim]

Ma Jinbao qualify?

Who is this?

 

[NextLevel]

Who is this?

Very funny.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

any famous or world-class players in the draw?

didn't see Next Level nor Adam Bobrow

 

[NextLevel]

didn't see Next Level nor Adam Bobrow

Now you are making me think and I don't think i have ever played the US Open before. I should plan on it sometime but when.... who knows.... with TTD next year, it is unlikely but you never know.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Just watched an entertaining match between Chulong Nie and Ryan Lin in U19 Boys Singles. Ryan dominated G4 and had a 6-0 lead with aggressive play in G5. He tightened up a bit and it got to deuce. But Ryan Lin pulls off the 14-12 victory. You may remember that Chulong Nie was the LP player that got Andreas Levenko fuming "This rubber is not correct!".

 

[NextLevel]

Just watched an entertaining match between Chulong Nie and Ryan Lin in U19 Boys Singles. Ryan dominated G4 and had a 6-0 lead with aggressive play in G5. He tightened up a bit and it got to deuce. But Ryan Lin pulls off the 14-12 victory. You may remember that Chulong Nie was the LP player that got Andreas Levenko fuming "This rubber is not correct!".

Ryan Lin is not on the US National team for seniors. So it says something about Chulong Nie's range which is not dissimilar to many pips players... unless someone found a way to make him use correct rubbers lol...

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Tianrui Zhang (2594) 3 - 0 Jinbao Ma (2812) in R32.

 

[NextLevel]

Tianrui Zhang (2594) 3 - 0 Jinbao Ma (2812) in R32.

WTF... last year's finalist eliminated juat like that....

 

[dewnyc]

WTF... last year's finalist eliminated juat like that....

Ma reached the finals the last 2 years, winning in 2023. He also reached the semifinals in 2022, making it 3 years in a row of doing so, until this year.

 

[dewnyc]

Ryan Lin is not on the US National team for seniors. So it says something about Chulong Nie's range which is not dissimilar to many pips players... unless someone found a way to make him use correct rubbers lol...

I played against Nie in the MS RR last year but couldn't give him much of a match. There was a 2000 player in the group who did win a game against him. He was ranked around 500th in the world at the time and I see he's now at 259, with most of his points from Feeder and Youth Contender tournaments in the US.

 

[dewnyc]

Now you are making me think and I don't think i have ever played the US Open before. I should plan on it sometime but when.... who knows.... with TTD next year, it is unlikely but you never know.

Yup, it's quite fun. You can go for the big prize and play against opponents from all around the world. Vegas is fun too, not as hot at that time of the year as during the summer (if the US Smash will continue being there - I saw a RedNote post about WTT looking for a host city) and hotels are cheap (especially Luxor, which is connected to Mandalay Bay) during weekdays right before the holidays.

 

[NextLevel]

Yup, it's quite fun. You can go for the big prize and play against opponents from all around the world. Vegas is fun too, not as hot at that time of the year as during the summer (if the US Smash will continue being there - I saw a RedNote post about WTT looking for a host city) and hotels are cheap (especially Luxor, which is connected to Mandalay Bay) during weekdays right before the holidays.

I think it was in Ontario, California the last two years or something. Or at least the period when Jinbao won. I used to go to Nationals a few years when it was in Vegas so I know that dynamic though I hear it is slightly different now and that everything isn't subsidized by gambling like it used to be. But I should find time for it if I can drop an event off my current calendar. Will give it some thought.

 

[dewnyc]

any famous or world-class players in the draw?

On the women's side, the top players are Lily Zhang and Mo Zhang.
Last year's champion Guo Yan is also here - she beat Nina Mittelham, Amy Wang, and Asuka Sasao last time.

On the draw on Omnipong, the ones with a listed rating over 3000 have a top 100 world ranking used for seeding.
Edward Ly of Canada previously was ranked as high as 35 but is now 127, so his USATT rating of 2606 (from just a few tournaments in the US that he played that counted for ratings) is used instead, making him the 17th seed here.

In the preliminary RR for WS, there were a handful of unrated Vietnamese players who had upset wins to advance but none are still in it. The farthest that I see is Tra My Hoang losing to Sally Moyland (the current US national champion, WR 80, 4th seed here) in R16.

Hong Kong player Zhu Chengzhu is playing only doubles, and won Mixed Doubles with Jishan Liang. She is playing Women's Doubles with penholder Chen Sun, who is in MLTT.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

On the women's side, the top players are Lily Zhang and Mo Zhang.
Last year's champion Guo Yan is also here - she beat Nina Mittelham, Amy Wang, and Asuka Sasao last time.

On the draw on Omnipong, the ones with a listed rating over 3000 have a top 100 world ranking used for seeding.
Edward Ly of Canada previously was ranked as high as 35 but is now 127, so his USATT rating of 2606 (from just a few tournaments in the US that he played that counted for ratings) is used instead, making him the 17th seed here.

In the preliminary RR for WS, there were a handful of unrated Vietnamese players who had upset wins to advance but none are still in it. The farthest that I see is Tra My Hoang losing to Sally Moyland (the current US national champion, WR 80, 4th seed here) in R16.

Hong Kong player Zhu Chengzhu is playing only doubles, and won Mixed Doubles with Jishan Liang. She is playing Women's Doubles with penholder Chen Sun, who is in MLTT.

I'm surprised Hong Kong's Zhu Chengzhu is not playing WS. She would have a pretty good chance of winning. She played well at the XTWC with wins over Linda Bergstrom and Lea Rakovac (very strong Croatian player).

 

[dewnyc]

Earlier this year, Diego Schaaf posted videos of past US Open matches, when the world's best players attended.
2000 was my first time going, and when all the top players were there, probably to prepare (and try to get their rankings up) for the Olympics a few months later.

Here are some of those matches, each of which I saw in person (the matches were with 38 mm ball, games to 21, speed glue, and more hidden serves)

If the whistling during the MS final is annoying, sorry, that was me lol

Anyways, I wonder if it's possible to have something like that (i.e. the very best players participating) at the US Open again. Also, do any other countries have any similar tournaments, which combine being able to watch world-class competition with being able to compete at their own levels/categories?