On the evening of March 17, Beijing time, the men's doubles champion of the table tennis WTT Doha regional tournament was born, and to the great surprise of the fans, the national table tennis combination was eliminated without even stepping into the battlefield of the final, of which Yu Ziyang/ Liu Dingshuo was defeated in the civil war, defeated by teammates Xu Haidong / Yuan Licen, but Xu Haidong / Yuan Licen was then defeated by the Chinese Taipei combination Feng Yixin / Huang Yancheng in the semifinals.
In the end, Feng Yixin/ Huang Yancheng, who was only 96th in the men's doubles world ranking, defeated the world-ranked 272-ranked multinational duo of Sifentes (Argentina) / Lakatos (Hungary) to win the championship, which was really a super upset!
Friends who pay attention to table tennis know that in recent years, the advantages of the Chinese team in the men's doubles event are not obvious, and earlier it was a strategic abandonment, which resulted in the Chinese Taipei combination Zhuang Zhiyuan / Chen Jian'an winning the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships; later, because of the alternation of the old and new, the men's doubles pairing was not connected.
After Ma Long and Xu Xin faded out of the World Series, the newly trained pairs of two world champions, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan/Liang Jingkun, did not reach the final at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships: the performance of the main force is still so, and the matching effect between non-main forces is naturally not very stable.
No, WTT Doha Regional Table Tennis sent two pairs of non-main combinations to participate, and the result did not reach the final again: in the quarterfinals, world champion Yu Ziyang and National Games runner-up Liu Dingshuo cooperated to play, and the result was 2-3 to Xu Haidong / Yuan Licen combination, which was far less famous than his own, but this was a civil war after all, so it was not a national table tennis defeat.
But in the subsequent semi-finals, Xu Haidong/Yuan Licen faced two lesser-known Chinese Taipei players when pairing Feng Yixin/Huang Yancheng, and even ended the battle 1-3 without even playing the decider, which was a big surprise.
You know, Feng Yixin is currently only 18 years old, and the singles world ranking is only 142; Huang Yancheng is only 19 years old, and the singles world ranking is only 306. As for the doubles cooperation of the two, they are only ranked 96th in the world, whether it is basic skills or the usual training conditions are not as good as the national team, but this time they have reached the top, which is really an unexpected ending!
At present, it seems that the national table tennis really has to pay close attention to the men's doubles project. On the evening of March 18, the national table tennis combination Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin will face the Japanese team Yukiya Utada / Hayabusa Tokami at the WTT Grand Slam, so can the two world champions live up to expectations and win the championship? Let's wait and see: Come on, two!