On March 22, 2022, the table tennis Doha Challenge continued, the national table tennis women's singles four advanced to the quarterfinals, in the first half of the division, the straight board young player Qi Fei narrowly defeated Hong Kong player Li Haoqing 3-2, Fan Siqi against Shi Xunyao, Yang Huijing against Qi Fei, regardless of the result, it was determined in advance that one person advanced to the final, the second half of the district only Zhang Rui himself, the opponent is the Austrian star Polkarnova.
Doha Challenge won the championship 400 points, the main team members were collectively absent, while deciding to withdraw from the star challenge behind, winning 600 points, the national table tennis sent some team members to participate, the performance of these young players, by the attention of outside fans, Ziffy is the only straight board player in the women's team to go out to participate, just in the last round of upset elimination of the fifth seed Zheng Yijing, while Ziffy also won the affirmation of the International Table Tennis Federation.
Qi Fei 21 years old, ranked 580th in the world, is a young player with a straight board play, promoted to a team for a short time, the recent performance is outstanding, in the Doha branch game partner Liu Weishan won the women's doubles championship, came to the challenge to participate in only singles, the first round of the main round 3-0 eliminated Chinese Taipei famous Zheng Yijing, to know that the women's table tennis straight board is relatively rare, after Zhang Qiang retired from the team, the national table tennis left Qi Fei and Wu Yangchen.
The second round of Qi Fei against The famous Li Haoqing of Hong Kong, China, the latter 29 years old ranked 47th in the world, second only to a sister Du Kaixuan in the team, the competition experience is very rich, last year's Olympic Games with the team won the team bronze medal, although the world ranking difference of more than 500, but both have the opportunity to advance, Ziffy mainly participate in the adult group event time is too short, the next will definitely have a substantial improvement.
After the start of the game, the two sides fell into a battle in the first set, the score alternately rose, Li Haoqing took the lead many times, and was soon equalized by Qi Fei, Li Haoqing's grasp of key points was better, and he scored consecutive points at the end of the game, taking the lead 11-8 first, and in the second set Ziffy took a 6-3 lead, Li Haoqing chased the score continuously, Ziffy got the set point 10-8, and then scored directly through the serve, and narrowly won the equalizer 11-9.
In the third set, both sides scored 3 points each, Ziffy scored 4 consecutive points to 7-3, soon blasted out 11-6 to win another set, in the fourth set Ziffy 3-0 lead, Li Haoqing suspended, after returning Ziffy suddenly dropped the line to lose consecutive points, Li Haoqing seized the opportunity, played 11-8 also in color, the decider Ziffy played steadily, took a 5-2 lead, and then Ziffy took advantage of the chase, continued to open the point difference, and blasted out 11-5 to lock in victory.
In the end, Qi Fei narrowly defeated Li Haoqing 3-2, and the four members of the national table tennis team advanced to the women's singles quarterfinals, locking in a final spot in advance, Fan Siqi in the first half of the district against Shi Xunyao, Qi Fei against Yang Huijing, and only Zhang Rui herself in the lower half, she will play against the Austrian star Polkanova.