On March 23, 2022, Beijing time, the WTT regular season challenge doha station ended the second day of the main competition, and the women's singles quarterfinals were officially released. Zhang Benmei, who is only 13 years old, eliminated world champion Feng Tianwei 3-1 and broke out of the super big cold. In addition, Tian Zhixi, Diaz and other famous players also lost on this match day, and the top 5 seeds in the women's singles were all out.
Five members of the national table tennis team reached the top 16 of the women's singles, of which 4 were in the upper half, and Zhang Rui alone guarded the lower half. As a result, these 5 people performed very well and advanced to the quarterfinals together.
In the first half, Fan Siqi eliminated Bergstrom 3-1, Shi Xunyao swept Nagasaki Miyu 3-0, Yang Huijing eliminated seeded player Diaz 3-2, and Qi Fei eliminated Li Haoqing 3-2. The national table tennis won four quarterfinals in the upper half of the district, and the next quarter-finals, Fan Siqi played against Shi Xunyao, and Yang Huijing played against Qi Fei. That is to say, the national table tennis locked a place in the women's singles final in advance.
In the second half, Japan's Miyu Kihara eliminated South Korea's Tian Zhixi 3-1, and she will play against Miyu Kato in the quarter-finals, who eliminated Yang Xiaoxin 3-1. The biggest underdog was made by 13-year-old Zhang Benmeihe, who eliminated the No. 2 seed and world champion Feng Tianwei 3-1, which surprised people. Zhang Benmeihe broke through from the qualifiers and won successive victories over the powerful players after entering the main tournament, and the progress was indeed obvious.
Zhang Benmeihe will face national table tennis star Zhang Rui in the quarterfinals, who will fight for 5 sets and win 3-2 against European star Polka Nova to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals.
At this point, the women's singles quarterfinals have all been released, although the main players of Chinese women's table tennis and the main players of Japanese women's table tennis have not participated, but the pattern has not changed. Five national table tennis players advance to the women's singles quarterfinals, still the number one winner, and the other three quarterfinals seats belong to Japanese players, and the women's singles champion will be produced in these two teams.
Surprisingly, the top five seeds of the women's singles, Du Kaixuan, Feng Tianwei, Tian Zhixi, Diaz and Zheng Yijing, were all out, and these players were actually very strong, but lacked stability. In addition, the 5-game 3-win system is very variable, and the possibility of upset is greatly increased. In the next women's singles 1/4 final, I hope that our national table tennis players will continue to cheer, especially Zhang Rui in the second half of the district to face three Japanese players alone, and the pressure is relatively large. I hope zhang Rui can withstand the pressure and strive to advance to the final!