Today, March 23, WTT Doha regular season, into the men's and women's singles semifinals competition. In the just-concluded match, Zhang Rui defeated Japan's Miyu Kihara 4-0 and successfully advanced to the final and achieved the final with Fan Siqi. In this way, the national table tennis won the championship and runner-up in advance, and congratulations to the Chinese team. Previously, Fan Siqi defeated teammate Qi Fei 4-2 to advance to the final, and her opponent was the winner of Zhang Rui and Miyu Kihara.
Miyu Kihara is a fast-improving table tennis player in Japan in recent years, she won the women's singles runner-up at the 2021 World Youth Championships, and she also won the finals with her partner Miyu Nagasaki. In this regular season, she and Miyu Nagasaki reached the women's doubles final, while winning the quarter-finals of the singles and winning teammate Miyu Kato to advance to the final four. More importantly, Zhang Rui lost to her in the Doha Challenge, so whether he could achieve revenge this time, Zhang Rui also made careful preparations. In the end, Zhang Rui defeated Miyu Kihara 12-10, 11-7, 11-6, 11-7 to advance to the final, and realized that he and Fan Siqi would meet in the final.
In the first set, Miyu Kihara started well and led 6-2. However, in the middle of the game, Zhang Rui stubbornly chased 6-6, and then 10-6 to take the lead to get the set point, Kihara Miyu did not give up chasing to 10-10, but the key point on Kihara's serve error, and finally Zhang Rui won 12-10. In the second set, Zhang Rui started 3-1, but the middle game was violently chased by Kihara, from 4-4 to 7-7, Kihara adopted a fighting tactic, how nai made consecutive mistakes, Zhang Rui won another set at 11-7, and the total score was 2-0.
In the third set, the two sides started 3-3, and then the score was deadlocked to 6-6, Kihara Miyu still adopted a fighting tactic, but Zhang Rui controlled the rhythm of the field, and then scored 5 consecutive points to win another set 11-6, leading Kihara Miyu 3-0 on aggregate.
In the fourth set, the two sides still started 3-3, Zhang Rui scored a point after Kihara Miyu wanted to pause, the suspension came back for a time the score was very tight until 6-6. However, after the middle game, Zhang Rui strengthened the quality, scoring three consecutive points to take a 9-6 lead in the last set, although the opponent fought to chase a point, but Zhang Rui still won 11-7.
In this way, Zhang Rui won 4-0 against Miyu Kihara and Fan Siqi in the final, and Zhang Rui single-handedly guarded the lower half of the district this time and successfully completed the task. Congratulations to Rui Zhang.
Tomorrow Zhang Rui's final opponent is Fan Siqi, who do you think will win?