On March 20, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Regular Season Challenge was underway. What is going on is the fourth round of the singles qualifiers. In terms of national table tennis, a total of 9 people in the women's singles participated in the qualification round, and in the end, Yang Huijing, Zhang Rui, Shi Xunyao, Fan Siqi, and Qi Fei successfully advanced to the main competition, and Qin Yuxuan, ZhongGeman, Chen Yi, and Zhu Sibing were eliminated.
In the fourth round of the men's singles qualifier, Japan's Shen Qiao also faced France's Akuzu. In the first set, the two sides fell into a battle, the score alternately rose, after the 11:11 draw, the French player Akuzu took the lead, scored two consecutive points, and won a set first at 13:11, leading 1:0. In the second set, Akuzu still has a clear advantage, his strength is great, and the advantage of the stalemate link is obvious.
Japan's Shen Qiao also made a lot of mistakes, and in the end, Akuzu won another set 11:8, leading 2:0. In the third set, the two sides opened with a 3-3 draw. In the middle of the game, Akuzu continued to pull each other in the far side of the field, leading 8:5. The key sub-link, Shen Qiao also chased to 8:9. Akuzu won the match point 10:8 and at 11:8, Akuzu locked in the victory. The aggregate score was 3:0 to eliminate Shen Qiaoya.
Another Japanese player and Kawa Ruiji lost 1:3 to national table tennis teenager Zeng Beixun on aggregate and did not qualify. In this case, with the exit of Shen Qiaoye, the doha regular challenge of this station, the Japanese men's singles has been completely destroyed. In this open tournament, Japanese main players Tomokazu Chang, Yukiya Umada, Takaki Niwa, Hayabusa Tokami and others did not register for the competition.
The South Korean team also suffered heavy losses, in the fourth round of the qualifiers, the South Korean women's singles has been completely destroyed, including the world champion Liang Xiayin, including the female players have all been eliminated. In the South Korean men's singles, Cho Dae-sung was eliminated, leaving only Lin Zhongxun to advance to the main tournament, and Lin Zhongxun defeated Germany's Walter 3:1 in the fourth round of qualifying. Lim defeated Lim at Singapore's Grand Slam station.
In the men's single side of national table tennis, 11 people participated in the qualifiers, and at present, Zhou Qihao, Yu Ziyang, Zhang Yudong, Cao Wei, Sun Wen and other five people have been eliminated. In the fourth round of the qualifiers, Xu Haidong faced teammate Xu Yingbin, and Liu Dingshuo faced teammate Xue Fei, in this case, two more people were eliminated, and the 7 men's singles of national table tennis did not have the opportunity to compete.