Sono state rese note le teste di serie per la gara a squadre olimpica sia maschile che femminile. Ecco di seguito le due liste di squadre, e la loro composizione, capeggiate in entrambi i generi dalla Cina.

2012 OLYMPIC GAMES MEN'S TEAM SEEDING LIST London, 2012 RANK TEAM PLAYERS NAME 1 CHINA ZHANG Jike MA Long WANG Hao 2 KOREA REP. JOO Saehyuk OH Sangeun RYU Seungmin 3 JAPAN MIZUTANI,Jun NIWA,Koki KISHIKAWA,Seiya 4 GERMANY BOLL,Timo OVTCHAROV,Dimitrij STEGER,Bastian 5 SINGAPORE GAO Ning ZHAN Jian YANG Zi 6 HONG KONG JIANG Tianyi TANG Peng LEUNG Chu Yan 7 AUSTRIA GARDOS,Robert CHEN Weixing SCHLAGER,Werner 8 PORTUGAL FREITAS,Marcos APOLONIA,Tiago MONTEIRO,Joao 9 RUSSIA SHIBAEV,Alexander SKACHKOV,Kirill SMIRNOV,Alexey 10 SWEDEN LUNDQVIST,Jens GERELL,Par PERSSON,Jorgen 11 KOREA DPR JANG Song Man KIM Hyok Bong KIM Song Nam 12 BRAZIL TSUBOI,Gustavo MONTEIRO,Thiago HOYAMA,Hugo 13 GREAT BRITAIN DRINKHALL,Paul BAGGALEY,Andrew PITCHFORD,Liam 14 EGYPT LASHIN,El-Sayed SALEH,Ahmed ASSAR,Omar 15 CANADA WANG,(Eugene) Zhen HINSE,Pierre-Luc HO,Andre 16 AUSTRALIA HENZELL,William HAN Justin FRANK,Robert

2012 OLYMPIC GAMES WOMEN'S TEAM SEEDING LIST London, 2012 RANK TEAM PLAYERS NAME 1 CHINA DING Ning LI Xiaoxia GUO Yue 2 JAPAN ISHIKAWA,Kasumi FUKUHARA,Ai HIRANO,Sayaka 3 SINGAPORE FENG Tianwei WANG Yuegu LI Jiawei 4 KOREA REP. KIM Kyungah SEOK Hajung PARK Miyoung 5 HONG KONG TIE Yana JIANG Huajun LEE Ho Ching 6 GERMANY WU Jiaduo IVANCAN,Irene SILBEREISEN,Kristin 7 NETHERLANDS LI Jiao LI Jie TIMINA,Elena 8 KOREA DPR RI Myong Sun KIM Jong RI Mi Gyong 9 AUSTRIA LIU Jia LI Qiangbing SOLJA,Amelie 10 SPAIN SHEN,Yanfei RAMIREZ,Sara DVORAK,Galia 11 POLAND LI Qian PARTYKA,Natalia GRZYBOWSKA,Katarzyna 12 USA HSING,Ariel ZHANG,Lily WU,Erica 13 GREAT BRITAIN PARKER,Joanna LIU Na SIBLEY,Kelly 14 AUSTRALIA LAY,Jian Fang MIAO Miao TAN,Vivian 15 BRAZIL KUMAHARA,Caroline SILVA,Ligia GUI Lin 16 EGYPT MESHREF,Dina EL-DAWLATLY,Nadeen MAGDY,Raghd