On March 23, local time, the 2022 WTT Regular Season Challenge Doha Station carried out the 1/4 finals and semi-finals of men's and women's singles, in the absence of the main force, the members of the national table tennis echelon performed well, Zhang Rui and Fan Siqi achieved the goal of the women's singles division final, winning the championship and runner-up; in the men's singles, the young general Yuan Lichen performed amazingly, won the civil and foreign wars, and advanced to the final, will face off against germany's Qiu Dang, and strive for the championship. In the day's competition, the most affirmative is Zhang Rui, who has continuously defeated the two new stars of Japanese women's table tennis, Zhang Benmeihe and Kihara Miyu, and strongly advanced to the final.
WTT Regular Season Challenge As the second stop in three consecutive races in Doha, Qatar, the national table tennis team only sent echelon players to participate, and the main players who ended the Singapore Grand Slam journey will not transfer to the Star Challenge in Doha, but directly return to China to rest. The youngsters took advantage of the rare opportunity to fight in foreign games to prove themselves, and in the men's and women's singles, many people achieved breakthroughs and created the best record of their careers.
In the women's singles quarterfinals, the national table tennis occupied 5 seats, and in the quarterfinals, it had to face two civil wars, and finally Qi Fei defeated Yang Huijing 3-0 and Fan Siqi defeated Shi Xunyao 3-1. Zhang Rui ushered in the challenge of The Japanese genius girl, Zhang Benzhihe's sister Zhang Benmeihe, and finally she lost one set 6-11, and won three consecutive sets 11-4, 11-6, 11-4, completing the reversal, and advancing to the top 4 with a big score of 3-1. Another quarter-final was the Japanese Civil War, in which Miyu Kihara defeated Miyu Kato 3-2.
The semi-finals were won 4 times in 7 sets, which added a certain amount of suspense to the game, and in the civil war between Fan Siqi and Ziffy, Fan Siqi was finally skilled, winning 4-2 and advancing to the final. Zhang Rui and Kihara Miyu launched a Sino-Japanese duel, the result of Which Zhang Rui completely overwhelmed the opponent in momentum, did not let the opponent win the next set, and completed the sweep 4-0, with four sets of 12-10, 11-7, 11-6, 11-7. So far, the national table tennis women's singles successfully completed the division, Zhang Rui has picked out two Japanese supernovas in a row, it is worth affirming, and the final battle with Fan Siqi is expected to be a perfect ending to her winning the championship.
In the men's singles competition, only two members of the national table tennis reached the top 8, and also met in the quarterfinals, and finally Yuan Lichen defeated Zhao Zihao 3-1 to advance to the top 4 and become the only seedling of national table tennis. In the semi-finals, Yuan Lichen encountered the opponent of India's Achanta, the result of the two played a full 7 sets, Yuan Lichen in the case of 2-3 behind, won two consecutive sets to complete the Jedi counterattack, the big score 4-3 thrilling advance to the final, seven sets of scores: 11-5, 8-11, 11-6, 7-11, 5-11, 12-10, 11-9. In the final, he will compete with the German-Chinese player Qiu Dang for the final championship. In this competition, Yuan Licen performed amazingly, having defeated Chinese Taipei's lin yunru, and now reaching the final, is expected to win the championship and achieve another major breakthrough in his career.