On March 22, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Regular Season Challenge was underway. What is underway is a single second round of competition. In terms of national table tennis, a total of 23 people participated in the open tournament, but the losses were heavy. In the men's singles, only Zhao Zihao and Yuan Licen are currently left to advance. In the women's singles, there are yang Huijing, Shi Xunyao, Qi Fei, Fan Siqi, Zhang Rui and other five people, and the other players are eliminated.
Today, the women's singles quarter-finals battle began first, with national table tennis player Yang Huijing facing Puerto Rican player Diaz. In the first game, Diaz entered the form quickly, her snowboard quality is not low, and she has a lot of strength, good at the first three boards. Diaz started with a 5-3 lead. In the middle of the game, Yang Huijing was always behind by the score, and Diaz easily won the first set 11:8, leading 1:0.
In the second set, Diaz opened 3-1. On the first three boards, the national table tennis player Yang Huijing made more unnecessary mistakes, and in the middle of the game, Yang Huijing chased to 5:6. Diaz made a mistake, Yang Huijing chased the draw, and the two sides drew 7:7. In the key sub-link, Yang Huijing took the initiative to change the line and actively mobilized the opponent, Yang Huijing got the set point at 10:8, did not miss the opportunity, and successfully won back a set at 11:8.
In the third set, Diaz still began to lead, and in the middle of the game, Yang Huijing chased to 4:5. But then Diaz won another set 11:6 with the advantage of the first three boards, leading 2:1 in the big score. In the fourth set, after Diaz scored a point first, Yang Huijing exploded 6:0, 6:1 to win the score. Diaz chased 5:7. Yang Huijing made a mistake, and Diaz chased it to 7:8.
Subsequently, Yang Huijing requested a suspension. After the timeout, Diaz tied and the two sides drew 9-9. The game entered the key points, Yang Huijing won a set 11:9, and the two sides drew 2:2. In the decider, Yang Huijing started 3:1 and Diaz asked for a timeout. After the suspension, Yang Huijing locked up the victory 11:6, and the total score was 3:2 thrilling to eliminate the women's singles No. 4 seed Diaz and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.
In another match, South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun faces European champion Dako. Dakoto has just won the European Round of 16 and is ranked 12th in the world, and is the fourth seed in the men's singles of the Doha Regular Challenge. In the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, Dako won 3:2 on aggregate to eliminate Lam Shi-dong.
However, facing South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun, European champion Dako did not play well, and Ahn Jae-hyun easily won three consecutive sets 12:10, 11:5, 11:4, with a total score of 3:0 clean sheet Dako, successfully advancing to the men's singles quarterfinals. Ahn Jae-hyun won the bronze medal in the men's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships and lost five sets against Fan Zhendong in a Grand Slam tournament in Singapore.