On March 20, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Regular Season Challenge was underway. In this open tournament, the individual champion will receive 400 points. After the Doha Regular Season Challenge, the Doha Star Challenge will continue, with 600 points for the individual champion. In the Doha regular season challenge of this station, 23 people of the national table tennis registered to participate, of which 20 people needed to participate in the qualification round, Liu Weishan, Qian Tianyi, Zhao Zihao three people directly advanced to the main competition.
In the second round of the singles qualifier, the women's singles broke out, and the top seed of the qualifier, Luxembourg's Nat, lost 1:3 to Thailand's nobody Tamorwan on aggregate, and did not qualify. Nat has made significant progress, and last year's World Table Tennis Championships she partnered with 58-year-old world champion Ni Xialian, who won the third place in the women's doubles of the World Table Tennis Championships. In the recent Oman Open, Nat scored 3:0 clean sheets against Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing, which shows that she is not bad.
In the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, Nat lost to Japan's Hina Hayata 2:3 in the first round of the women's singles regular match. But in the women's doubles competition, Nat partnered with Ni Xialian and once again advanced to the women's doubles semifinals. In the semi-finals, the total score was 0:3 against the national table tennis world table tennis championships women's doubles champion Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu, and had no chance to qualify. After finishing the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, Nat rushed to Doha to participate in the regular challenge.
Unexpectedly, in the second round of the women's singles qualifier, Nat was upset. Facing Thailand's Tamorvan, In the first set, Nat won the first set 11:7 to lead 1:0. In the second set, Thailand's Tamorwan pulled back a set 11-9. In the third set, the two sides were locked in a fierce battle, and the score was fierce until 14:14. After that, Tamorwan scored two consecutive points to win another set 16:14. In the fourth set, Tamorwan sealed the win 11:8.
In this way, Thailand's Tamorwan defeated the top seed of the women's singles in the qualifiers 3:1 on aggregate and successfully advanced. In terms of national table tennis, there are currently 8 people who have been eliminated, namely Qin Yuxuan, Zhong Geman, Chen Yi, Zhou Qihao, Yu Ziyang, Zhang Yudong, Cao Wei, and Sun Wen. Another 12 qualified for the fourth round of qualifying and will compete for tickets to the Doha Regular Challenge.
The Doha regular season challenge has a strong gold content, and Swedish world champion Fark needs to participate in the men's singles qualifier, and he is the number one seed in the men's singles in the qualifiers. In the men's singles, Hugo, Lin Yunru, Aruna, Huang Zhenting, Dako, Francesca, Zhuang Zhiyuan, Simon, Carlsson and others all participated in the competition. So, men's single, the competition is very fierce.