On March 19, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Regular Season Challenge was underway. In March, the WTT Doha Regional Tournament, the Doha Regular Season Challenge, and the Doha Star Challenge will be held consecutively in Doha. In the Doha regular season challenge, the national table tennis coaching staff sent 23 people to participate, including 12 men's singles and 11 women's singles. 20 people need to participate in the qualification round, Zhao Zihao, Liu Weishan, Qian Tianyi three people directly advanced to the main competition.
In the first round of the women's singles qualifier, host Maya took on Thailand's Tamorwan. Both are no-name pawns in table tennis, but the match is very dramatic. Qatar's Maya is average, and although the Thai players did not exert their full strength, Maya is still a rare point. In the first set, Tamorwan led 10:0, and then, taking the initiative to make a mistake, the opponent scored a point, and finally Tamorwan won a set 11:1.
In the second set, Tamorvan started 10-0 again, again took the initiative to make a mistake, and won 11:1. In the third set, Tamorwan locked in the win 11-2. In this case, the host player Maya only scored 4 points in three innings, and the opponent was merciful twice and sent points twice, otherwise, the score may be even more ugly. This is probably the most disparity in international table tennis.
In the women's single side of national table tennis, 9 people need to participate in the qualification tournament. In the first round of the qualifiers, the two women's singles players of the national table tennis were eliminated, namely Qin Yuxuan and ZhonggeMan. Among them, the young player Qin Yuxuan lost to teammate Zhu Sibing by 0:3 on aggregate, and suffered a round of travel, with the scores of 5:11, 4:11 and 3:11 in three sets respectively. It can be seen that the young player Qin Yuxuan is not good at cutting the ball.
The youngster Zhonggeman fought five sets, losing 2:3 to Japan's Zhang Benmeihe on aggregate, and did not qualify. In the first three sets, Zhonggeman led 2-1. In the fourth set, Zhang Benmeihe blasted 11:0. Zhang Benmeihe refused to concede the ball and directly kept a clean sheet for the national table tennis player. In the decider, Zhang Benmei and 11:9 locked in the victory, the total score of 3:2 eliminated Zhonggeman.
In other matches, national table tennis player Ziffey eliminated France's Camille 3:0 on aggregate, and the scores in the three sets were 11:3, 11:4 and 11:2. Chen Yi eliminated Singapore's Hui Kaixin 3:0 on aggregate, with the scores of 11:5, 11:4 and 11:3 in the three sets. Shi Xunyao, the champion of the National Table Tennis Women's Singles World Youth Championships, eliminated a Romanian player 3:0 on aggregate and successfully advanced to the second round of the qualification round.