The 2022 Table Tennis Doha Challenge began the first day of competition, in the men's doubles event that started first, Cao Wei/ Xu Yingbin, the only participant in the national table tennis, lived up to expectations, facing South Korea's strong file Ahn Jae-hyun / Cho Dae-sung, in the case of losing a set first, 3-1 (7-11/11-4/11-5/12-10) eliminated the opponent and strongly advanced to the men's doubles second round. It is worth mentioning that South Korea's youngster Ahn Jae-hyun once won the third place in the men's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2019, and in the just-concluded Singapore Grand Slam men's singles 1/8 final, Ahn Jae-hyun once led Fan Zhendong 2-1, and lost 2-3 in the decider, surprised the world's first cold sweat.
As the main team of the national table tennis team has just finished the journey of the Singapore Grand Slam and reached the final in 5 individual events, it cannot rush to Doha, the capital of Qatar, in time to participate in the challenge, and the young team that participated in the Doha branch tournament last week continues to represent the national table tennis team. The only men's doubles match, Cao Wei/Xu Yingbin, is the third place in the men's doubles at the 2021 National Games, winning consecutive pairs of Poland and Iran in the qualifying round to advance into the main competition, and met South Korea's strong player Cho Dae-sung / Ahn Jae-hyun in the first round.
In the first set, the Korean men's doubles Cho Dae-sung / Ahn Jae-hyun played the traditional advantages of the Korean doubles, with three characteristics of flexible pace, fast starting speed and smooth connection, and soon let the national table tennis combination lose the first set at 7-11. Fortunately, the national table tennis combination in the next 3 sets reflected the advantages of the long-term cooperation of the Shaanxi All-Games cycle, and the 4th set once faced the opponent with 2 innings points, tenaciously reversed, and after scoring 4 points from 8-10, 12-10 ended the opponent's momentum of trying to turn the tables.
South Korea's men's doubles has always occupied an important position in the international table tennis world, a year ago Lee Sang-so / Jung Young-sik once ranked first in the world men's doubles, Lim Jong-hoon / Jang Woo-jin also temporarily ranked second in the world men's doubles with the second place in the world men's doubles at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and now the young combination Ahn Jae-hyun / Cho Dae-sung is also trying to partner, striving to succeed veteran Jung Young-sik / Lee Sang-so. Ahn Jae-hyun reached the round of 16 in this week's Grand Slam men's singles, and the competition for the top 8 encountered the world's No. 1 Fan Zhendong, resulting in a bitter 5-game 2-1 lead, the experienced Fan Zhendong later came to avoid upset, Ahn Jae-hyun and Lim Jong-hoon are expected to become the new hope of The Korean men's singles. The 19-year-old Zhao Dacheng had a good record in the mixed doubles pairs with Shen Yubin in the Tokyo Olympic cycle. As Lee Sang-so, Jang Woo-jin and Jung Young-sik age the troika, the chances of young players getting into positions are high as The Korean men's table tennis or the blood exchange program that accelerates the Paris cycle is very high.
After Cao Wei / Xu Yingbin successfully ushered in the opening of this tournament, the next opponent will become more and more powerful, the Japanese combination Shen Qiaoya / and Chuan Ruiji 3-0 (11-4 / 11-4 / 11-6) to win the host Qatar's combination Khalil / Wahab, the Japanese combination eliminated world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan and teammate Peng Wangwei in the qualifiers, is also one of the favorites to win the men's doubles in this station. The Swedish combination of Karlsson/Falke, the new champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, participated as the number one seed, which made the men's doubles lineup of this station flourish, which may form a situation of Eurasian confrontation.