On March 22, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Regular Season Challenge was underway. What is going on is the battle for the top 8 seats in the individual event. Japanese male solo Miao Shenqiao also faced French rookie Alex. Shen Qiao had also been eliminated in the qualifiers, but because the national table tennis player Xu Haidong withdrew, Shen Qiao also gained the opportunity to come on the bench. In the first round of the main tournament, Shen Qiao also eliminated the German star Francesca.
In the men's singles second round, Shen Qiao also faced France's 18-year-old Alex. Alex was born in 2003, belongs to the right hand crossboard two-sided anti-glue play, won the 2021 European Youth Championship U19 men's singles third place, 2021 WTT Junior Star Challenge Fwadisławvo station U19 men's singles runner-up.
It is worth mentioning that in this open tournament, Alex, an 18-year-old french player, eliminated the Polish star Jacob, the national table tennis men's singles player Sun Wen, and the national table tennis player Zeng Beixun in the qualifiers. Can beat two national table tennis men's singles players in a row, which shows that the French teenager Alex is not bad.
In the first game, Shen Qiao was also completely out of line, and the French youngster Alex took a 10:2 lead at the beginning, and finally won an easy first set 11:2, and Shen Qiao only scored 2 points in a single set. In the second set, Shen Qiao also recovered from the state, and the two sides held the ball more, but in the middle of the game, Alex quickly opened the score to alternate, 10:8 again to harvest the set point, did not miss the opportunity, Alex 11:8 locked in the win, the big score 2:0 lead.
In the third set, Shen Qiao also collapsed mentally, frequent unnecessary mistakes, and finally, the French young player Alex easily locked the victory at 11:3, dropped three straight sets, and the total score was 3:0 to seal Shen Qiaoye, successfully advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals. Consecutive defeats of Sun Wen, Zeng Beixun, Shen Qiaoye, Alex has shown great potential. With the departure of Shen Qiaoye, the Japanese men's singles of the Open Tournament has been completely destroyed.
In other arenas, South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun won the 3:0 clean sheet, the European champion Dako, and successfully advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals. Zhao Zihao, a famous player in the national table tennis straight board, kept a clean sheet against Denmark's Gross on the aggregate and successfully advanced. Fan Siqi eliminated Swedish chipper Linda 3:1 on aggregate, Shi Xunyao 3:0 0 clean sheets against Japan's Nagasaki Miyu, Fan Siqi and Shi Xunyao successfully met in the women's singles quarterfinals.