World Table Tennis Championships: The new generation of national table tennis team debuts Zhou Qihao loses to Boll
2021-11-26 11:58:02Source: Xinhuanet
Xinhua News Agency, Houston, November 24th (Reporters Xu Jianmei and Pan Lijun) On the 24th, the Houston World Table Tennis Championships entered the second match day. The new generation of Chinese table tennis team made a collective appearance in the second round of singles. Zhou Qihao, who was alone in the bottom half of the men’s singles, lost 1:4 to the German “table tennis evergreen” Boll and missed the top 32.
The Chinese team players who competed in this World Table Tennis Championships were not experienced in the previous World Championships, and many players ushered in their debut at the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston. In the men’s singles event, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin easily defeated their opponents 4:0 and passed the competition smoothly. Liang Jingkun faced German player Qiu Dang, and Lin Gaoyuan encountered Swedish player Karl Berg. After seven rounds of fierce fighting between the two national table tennis players, they narrowly defeated their opponents and successfully advanced. As the only national table tennis player in the second half, Zhou Qihao missed the promotion after losing to Boll.
The five national table tennis players Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong who participated in the second round of the women’s singles all qualified 4:0. Chen Meng also partnered with Qian Tianyi and defeated a pair of Slovaks 3-0 in the first round of the women’s doubles.
The Japanese star Zhang Benzhi and he fought hard in seven rounds and lost upset to Polish player Jacob Dias. Niwa Takaki and Mori Soon also lost in the second round. At present, Japan’s men’s table tennis player only has Togami Hayasuke. The Japanese women played normally, and Mima Ito, Miu Hirano, Yoshizumi Ishikawa and others successfully advanced.
The ITTF Congress was held in Houston on the same day. Petra Solin from Sweden was elected as the eighth president of ITTF, and Liu Guoliang, chairman of the World Table Tennis Professional League Council and Chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, was elected ITTF Executive Deputy Chairman. In addition, South Korea’s Busan won the right to host the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships.
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