After series of cancellation of tournaments this year, the 2020 ITTF Finals is one of the three year-end tournaments that conclude the table tennis calendar in 2020. The other two, the 2020 ITTF World Cup and the inaugural World Table Tennis Macao, were also held in November in China.
The top 16 players in the April 2020 ITTF World Ranking were invited to compete in men's and women's singles events, subject to a maximum of four players from each national association. Players were seeded according to their November 2020 World Ranking.[4][5]