On March 21, 2022, the table tennis Doha Challenge continued, the women's doubles field continued to be unpopular, Slovenian dark horse Tofante / Strazar completed a big reversal, 0-2 behind to win three consecutive sets, eliminated the top seed from Puerto Rico's Diaz sisters, the national table tennis combination Liu Weishan / Qian Tianyi lost 0-3 to the Swedish combination Linda / Christina, and the two pairs of women's doubles popular combinations were out of the first round.
Doha Challenge won the championship 400 points, the national table tennis coaching team sent 23 people to participate, because of the conflict with the Grand Slam time, so the main players are absent collectively, and then the national table tennis will converge in Doha, Qatar, because there is a 600-point star challenge, before Chen Meng won the championship in an interview, said that he would continue to work hard and strive to achieve better results in the new arena, she said that she was the star challenge.
According to the arrangement of the International Table Tennis Federation, after the end of the Doha Challenge, the Star Challenge began, some of the main players need to participate in the qualification tournament, attracted the attention of outside fans, and now the focus is on the Doha Challenge, because the world ranking is not high, although the national table tennis sent 23 young players to participate, but only Cao Wei / Xu Yingbin, Liu Weishan / Qian Tianyi two pairs of combinations successfully registered, mixed doubles can only be absent.
Singles Zhao Zihao, Liu Weishan, Qian Tianyi directly advanced to the main tournament, 20 people participated in the qualification round, the result was 12 people were eliminated, 3 men's singles, women's singles 5 people advanced, it is worth mentioning that this competition is very difficult to play, because many famous players in the foreign association have participated.
In the first round of the men's doubles, Cao Wei/ Xu Yingbin played against the South Korean team of Ahn Jae-hyun / Cho Dae-sung, Cao Wei / Xu Yingbin lost the first set 7-11, and won three consecutive sets 11-4, 11-5, 12-10, and finally eliminated Ahn Jae-hyun / Cho Dae-sung 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals, and the Swedish pair Offark/Carlson swept the French combination Alex/Alex 3-0, followed by the Japanese team Shen Qiaoya/and Chuan Ruiji.
Women's doubles Qian Tianyi / Liu Weishan out of the first round, lost three consecutive games against the Swedish combination Linda / Christina, of which Linda is a chipper, the two are very uncomfortable in the face of special play, quickly lose the game, the national table tennis has no chance to impact the women's doubles championship, there are still three items left in the men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles can be fought for, Qian Tianyi is the third runner-up in the women's doubles of the World Table Tennis Championships, and now it seems that there are still many aspects that need to be improved.
The top seed was puerto Rican duo A. Diaz/M. Diaz, who won 11-9 in the first round against Slovenian duo Tofante/Strazar, both 11-9 in the first two sets, followed by Tofante/Strazar won three consecutive sets 11-4, 13-11, 11-8 to defeat A. Diaz/M. Diaz 3-2.
In addition, the Japanese duo of Miyu Kihara / Miyu Nagasaki eliminated the Slovak duo of Raposova / Kukurkova 3-1, and the next round against the Swedish combination linda / Christina.