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


The men's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Thursday 2 August 2012 at ExCeL London. The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists. In the 2008 event all three medals were won by Chinese athletes with Ma Lin taking gold.
The draw was conducted on 25 July 2012.

Qualification

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time.
DatesStart timeRound
28 July9:45Preliminary round
28 July16:00First round
29 July11:00Second round
30 July10:00Third round
30 July19:00Fourth round
31 July20:00Quarterfinals
1 August10:00Quarterfinals
2 August10:00Semifinals
2 August14:30Bronze medal match
2 August15:30Gold medal match

Seeds

Seeds were based on the ITTF World Ranking lists published in July 2012 with a maximum of 2 players per country. The top 16 seeded players qualified directly to the third round.
The players seeded from 17 to 32 qualified directly to the second round.

  17. Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Preliminary rounds