The WTT Regional Tournament in Düsseldorf, Germany, which kicked off on 12 January, began five first-round competitions. France's 15-year-old men's singles straight board rising star Felix lost to teammate Florian 3-4 after 7 innings, and Felix, who once beat Zhuang Zhiyuan in Slovenia before the World Table Tennis Championships, bringing new ideas to the straight board play, still seems to be lacking in absolute strength. In addition, South Korea only sent Kim Tae-hyun to compete, defeating France's Vincent in four straight sets.
WTT Germany Düsseldorf Regional Tournament registration is not large, mainly Germany, France and other European third-rate players, in the women's doubles only 8 pairs of combinations to participate, men's doubles 12 pairs of combinations to participate, mixed doubles have 10 pairs of combinations. As the first international event of table tennis in 2022, it did not attract first-class masters to participate, and even the host's aces Pol, Ochalov, Han Ying, and Solja did not play, foreign players considered their own safety and recently participated in the World Table Tennis Championships and World Cup Finals, which is in the stage of fierce battles in various leagues, and it is naturally not good to be a low-level event adventure.
The biggest attraction in the first round of men's singles, and also worth looking forward to, is the French derby, 15-year-old straight player Felix vs. Florian, the final result is the elder Florian in the decider to laugh at the end, defeating Felix 4-3. In the WTT Slovenia station Felix beat the world champion Taipei Zhuang Zhiyuan, once let the outside world see the new force of straight board play, in the past 30 years, European athletes in addition to a few overseas corps still retain straight board play, European local players rarely appear straight board players, felix's appearance, once let the almost extinct straight board play in the European continent breed again, plus he is only 15 years old, there is still a lot of room for improvement. At present, Felix occasionally has Zhengrong but the absolute ability is not enough, and the national table tennis Xu Xin and even Zhao Zihao are not comparable, he showed the advantages of the World Table Tennis Championships and the competition of this station, only in terms of age, technology and experience need to get a qualitative leap through continuous competition to be able to rank among the real straight board masters.
The South Korean team sent the only seedling Kim Tae-hyun to participate, in the first round of the men's singles against France's Vincent, very easily played a 4-0 score, due to the start of the Korean domestic selection tournament, Kim Tae-hyun can play in the Düsseldorf station, but also basically announced that he will not qualify for this year's World Table Tennis Championships and Asian Games.
In the first round of other men's singles matches, Germany's Meng Fanbo defeated Iran's Hodaj 4-3, Ullmann beat Australia's Dillon 4-2, André lost 1-4 to Gonzalez, and Sypler defeated Austria's Jonas 4-2, including an 11-1 tie in one set. Germany's DeSeliko beat Portugal's Og 4-1, Ault beat Italy's Pecklin 4-0 and Ohmi beat Casas 4-0.