On March 23, 2022, the Table Tennis Doha Challenge entered a white-hot stage, the first final seat of the women's singles was released, the two national table tennis players began to compete, Fan Siqi eliminated Ziffy 4-2, and advanced to the women's singles final for the second time this year, waiting for the winners of Zhang Rui and Kihara Miyo.
Fan Siqi once won the National Games women's team championship, is a very strong young player, because there are not many opportunities to go out to participate, resulting in many fans are not familiar with her, just before the Oman match, Fan Siqi from the qualifiers, and finally won the women's singles runner-up, the final lost to Ku man, to Doha, Fan Siqi also maintained a total victory record, will be his teammate Ziffy, is expected to impact the championship.
Ziffy joined the national table tennis team for a short time, this year came out to participate in the adult group event, the 00-year-old rising star is a straight board play, relatively rare in the women's table tennis world, foreign association players are not adaptable to easy to suffer losses, Ziffy is currently ranked 580th, from the qualification tournament to the main tournament, won seven consecutive games to advance to the final four, upset the elimination of seeded star Zheng Yijing, and then against Fan Siqi to compete for a women's singles final seat.
The strength of the two is relatively close, the victory or defeat all depends on the on-site play, but Fan Siqi competition experience is very rich, she not only won the national championship, very early participated in some international events, Ziffy in this regard is not dominant, what can be done is to go all out to impact the opponent, the opportunity to go out to participate is more rare, everyone hopes to prove themselves, achieve good results, become the ultimate winner.
Women's singles semifinals 7 sets 4 wins, the first set Fan Siqi to take a 3-1 lead, Ziffy some slow heat, in the first three boards appeared more unnecessary mistakes, Fan Siqi pulled the point difference to 8-3, and then blasted out 11-4 first to take the lead, the second set Ziffy improved the quality of the veneers, to avoid entering the middle and far stage with Fan Siqi, try to fight in the near stage, Fan Siqi continued to lose points, and soon Ziffy equalized the score at 11-5.
In the third set, Qi Fei took advantage of the chase to get a 5-2 lead, Fan Siqi chased points continuously, but the effect was not ideal, Zi Fei played steadily, won another round at 11-7, and then Fan Siqi stepped up the offensive, pulled the point difference to 6-2, Zi Fei made a senseless mistake, Fan Siqi won 11-7, the two sides ended the four sets into a draw, Fan Siqi's overall performance was still more stable, Zifi was relatively more up and down.
Next Fan Siqi trailed 1-6 to 9 draws, bringing more pressure to Ziffy, Fan Siqi got the set point 10-9, Ziffy scored 10 draws, Fan Siqi scored 2 points 12-10 narrowly, Fan Siqi led 3-1 in the sixth set, Ziffy called a timeout adjustment, after returning, Fan Siqi led the way in an all-round way, locked up the victory at 11-6, and finally eliminated Ziffy to advance to the women's singles final 4-2, only one game away from winning the championship.