WTT Doha Star Challenge: National table tennis players missed the semifinals in singles

2022-03-31 16:43:31Source: Xinhuanet

Xinhua News Agency, Doha, March 30. The World Table Tennis Major League (WTT) Doha Star Challenge held the men’s and women’s singles quarter-finals on the 30th. Zhang Rui, Xue Fei and Zhou Qihao lost to their respective opponents. The Chinese team players No one made it to the quarterfinals. The Japanese pair Kihara Miyu/Nagasaki Meiyou won the women’s doubles title, while the German pair Qiu Dang/Du Da won the men’s doubles championship.

The main players of the Chinese team who participated in the Singapore Grand Slam before did not participate in this event, and the national table tennis lineup is dominated by young players. Facing Chen Siyu of Chinese Taipei, Zhang Rui won three games in a row with the same score of 11:4 after winning the first game at 11:9. Also advancing to the semi-finals of the women’s singles were Germany’s Han Ying, as well as two Japanese athletes Kato Miyu and Kihara Miyu. Among them, Kato Miyu eliminated the third seed and South Korean player Tian Zhixi.

In men’s singles, Xue Fei lost 1:2 in the first three games against Croatian player Gacini, and unfortunately lost 14:16 in the fourth game. In another match, Zhou Qihao lost 0:3 to the fifth seed, Nigerian Aruna. The top seed and Brazilian star Calderano was eliminated 3:1 by Sweden’s Carlsson, and the second seed and Chinese Taipei athlete Lin Yunru lost 1:3 to South Korea’s Lin Zhongxun.

In the mixed doubles semifinals, the two seeded pairs Zheng Yijing/Lin Yunru (Chinese Taipei) and Yuan Jianan/Lebesson (France) defeated their opponents and advanced to the final.

The women’s doubles final will be between Kihara Miyu/Nagasaki Miyou and Chinese Taipei’s Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen. After the Japanese team won the first game with 13:11, they won two games in a row with a large difference, and won the championship with 3:0. This is also the second women’s doubles title they have won within a week after the WTT Doha regular challenge.

In the men’s doubles final, Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yunru/Liao Zhenjun and Qiu Dang/Du Da fought 2:2 in the first four rounds, and the German pair easily won 11:4 in the tiebreaker.

The WTT Doha Star Challenge will be held on the 31st for the singles semifinals, finals and mixed doubles finals.

On March 30, Chinese player Xue Fei returned the ball in the game.

On the same day, in the men’s singles quarter-finals of the 2022 World Table Tennis Major League (WTT) Doha Star Challenge held in Doha, Qatar, China’s Xue Fei lost 1-3 to Croatia’s Gacini and missed the semi-finals .