In the men's singles semifinals of the 2022 WTT Challenge in Doha, Qatar, China's Yuan Lizen defeated India's Achanta 4-3 to advance to the final. In the final, Yuan Licen will face Germany's Qiu Dang, and is expected to win the championship in the dark.
Due to the suspension of the main force of national table tennis, more young players came to Doha to compete, Yuan Licen seized the opportunity, he is a very good player in this year's national table tennis competition, although the world ranking is only 264, but he is in very good shape, from the qualifiers all the way through the barrier will win eight consecutive games to reach the final. In particular, he eliminated Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru 3-1 in the quarter-finals, followed by a 3-1 victory over teammate Zhao Zihao in the quarter-finals.
(Yuan Licen VS Lin Yunru)
In the semi-finals, Yuan Lichen faced India's Achanta, who played with great characteristics and experience in the game, and was a more difficult opponent. Sure enough, the game was very sticky, and in the first five sets of 2-3 behind, Yuan Lichen finally won two big sets of 4-3 reversals, seven sets of 11-5, 8-11, 11-6, 7-11, 5-11, 12-10 and 11-9.
Yuan Licen is a young player from Liaoning, who entered the national team in 2015 for winning the men's singles championship of the National Junior Championships, and he once beat Ma Long in the Table Tennis Super League to become famous.
(Yuan Lichen vs Ma Long)
Starting this year, Yuan Licen got more opportunities to go out to participate in international competitions, and in the doha side event that had just ended, Yuan Licen lost to teammate Zhao Zihao in the final and won the men's singles runner-up.
In the next final battle, Yuan Licen may have an advantage in the degree of technical thickness, but in terms of competition experience and on-the-spot change ability, Qiu Dang may have surpassed it. The state of Qiu Dang in this competition is also very good, winning the French team "one brother" Simon, the world's No. 4 Brazilian Player Hugo, its technical and tactical level is indeed not to be underestimated, and Yuan Lizen will also face a severe test in the final.
In the women's singles, Fan Siqi and Zhang Rui won two consecutive games in one day, successfully meeting the final of the division and ensuring that the national table tennis won the championship of the project.
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