Top seed Xu Xin won the men's singles title at the 2012 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Hangzhou on Sunday, beating Chinese teammate Wang Hao in the final.

Xu, 22, won in four straight games (11-8, 11-7, 11-6, 11-7) and thus reversed the decision of one year ago when he had suffered defeat at the hands of Wang Hao at the quarter-final stage in London.

It is Xu's first major men's singles title of his career. He collected 104,000 U.S. dollars for this milestone victory, and Wang Hao earned 52,000 dollars.

In women's doubles final, Singapore's Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu, who qualified for the year-ending tournament only after Romanian pair Daniela Dodean and Elizabeta Samara pulled out, defeated second-seeded Cheng I-Ching and Huang Yi-Hua of Chinese Taipei 11-13, 11-13, 11-8, 11-4, 11-3, 5-11, 11-2 to win the gold.

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