In the prime time of the evening, we ushered in the Doha Regular Season Challenge men's and women's singles eight-to-four battle. In the first two women's singles semifinals battles, in the confrontation between the teammates of the national table tennis women's team, the young Ziffy won 3-0 against his teammates, the elder sister Yang Huijing. Zhang Rui, who played next, reversed Japan's 14-year-old Young Player Zhang Benmeihe with a 3-1 score in the unfavorable situation of losing one set first, and won the second women's singles final four place as desired. In the other two women's singles eight-in-four battles, Fan Siqi defeated Shi Xunyao 3-1, and Miyu Kato narrowly defeated Miyu Kihara 3-2. In this way, the women's singles final four include three female national table tennis players and one Japanese female player. After the end of these two women's singles eight-four battles, it was a two-game battle for men's singles eight-in-four. In the internal confrontation of national table tennis players, Zhao Zihao and Yuan Licen, who have the ability to impact the main players, directly confronted hard. Another men's singles quarter-and-eight battle was between Hugo Calderano from Brazil and Qiu from Germany.
Comparatively speaking, between Zhao Zihao and Yuan Licen, although Zhao Zihao is slightly older and Yuan Licen is only 22 years old, it is still difficult for Zhao Zihao's direct slapping method to gain the upper hand in the competition with his teammates. Especially under the premise that Yuan Licen defeated Lin Yunru 3-1 in the last round of matches, he played a different momentum and the ability to score key points in this eight-in-four battle. In the end, the final victory of the game was won by the same score of 3-1. The scores were in four sets: 11-6, 9-11, 11-5 and 11-8.
Judging from the progress of the four innings of the two sides, in the first game, Yuan Licen entered the state faster, and the attack was more active, especially he did a very good job of Zhao Zihao's transfer of the two longest lines, and also won the first game in a relatively easy way 11-6. And in the second set of the game, Zhao Zihao began to take the initiative to seek to get started, the beginning of the game to 3-0 and 4-1 score to maintain the lead, although the central stage of Zhao Zihao's continuous offensive mistakes, the two sides fought to a 5-5 draw, but Yuan Lichen's two serve opportunities were not seized, Zhao Zihao's two serves and formed a beautiful serve rush, coupled with Yuan Lichen's short swing mistakes, Zhao Zihao achieved a 9-6 score lead. But at the end of the game, yuan Licen played very weakly, once chasing the score to 9-10, at the critical moment, Zhao Zihao called a timeout for himself. The suspension came back and seized the opportunity to pull back a city 11-9. The two sides scored a 1-1 draw.
In the third set of the game, although Yuan Licen fell behind by a 2-4 score at the beginning, his straight-line attack played particularly beautifully, and the serve end also caused Zhao Zihao's return mistakes continuously, coupled with Zhao Zihao's direct mistakes in the serve, a serve rushed to directly win, allowing Yuan Licen to completely pull the score apart, and the two sides fought 8-4. With Yuan Licen's initiative to change the line to score, 11-5, Yuan Licen easily won the third game. Take a 2-1 lead in the big scores. This lead also made Yuan Licen play more relaxed, and Zhao Zihao was a little anxious when he was behind in the big score, even if the two sides had been tight in the first half of the fourth set, and the two sides fought into consecutive draws of 4-4, 5-5, 7-7, 8-8. But at the end of the game, Yuan Licen played more actively, Zhao Zihao made consecutive mistakes, 11-8, Yuan Licen won the fourth game at the same time, but also eliminated Zhao Zihao with a 3-1 overall score, and got a men's singles final four place.
In another men's singles quarter-in-four battle staged on the same table, Qiu Dang entered the state quickly, relying on his own initiative to attack in the first two sets, as well as various changes in the serve and serve, so that Caldrano was obviously not adaptable enough, and the easy 11-5 score won two consecutive sets. Although in the third set, Calderano stepped up his fighting and turned passive into active, pulling the score 6-2 in the first half of the set and winning the game 11-6. The score was pulled to 1-2.
Hugo, who found the game from the third set, was also very brave in the fourth set, scoring all the way in the first half of the set to take a 6-0 lead. In the second half of the inning, Qiu Dang, who was successfully suppressed, still failed to score, and he was also shaved by Hugo in this set with a score of 0-11. The two sides scored a 2-2 draw. In the fifth game of the match, both sides played very actively and wanted to win the game by taking the lead. The two from the beginning of the game to bite the score, played 3-3 and 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 8-8 and 9 draws, 10 draws, 11 draws, the key moment, or Qiu Dang more dare to take the lead, take the initiative to attack, he also used his own enthusiasm 13-11, and won the decider, thus eliminating Hugo with a score of 3-2, and successfully got another place to advance to the men's singles final four. Hugo was sadly defeated.