The WTT Regular Season Challenge Doha leg has just ended, and the WTT Star Challenge Doha leg is competing for the qualifying tournament today. Yuan Licen and Fan Siqi, the two players of the national table tennis who won the championship yesterday, continued to play today. The signing table for the main match of this competition was released this afternoon, and Zhao Zihao, the only player in the men's singles of the national table tennis team who directly advanced to the main match, faced South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun in the first round, and the two players who directly advanced to the women's singles main event, Qian Tianyi and Liu Weishan, played against India's Batra and Japan's Nagasaki Miyu respectively.
According to the original plan, the main members of the national table tennis team who previously participated in the WTT Singapore Grand Slam competition will participate in the doha station of the WTT Star Challenge, but after considering various reasons, many national table tennis players, including all the main forces, withdrew from the competition, and finally only the young members of the national table tennis team participated. Except for Zhao Zihao, Qian Tianyi and Liu Weishan, all the other team members had to start from the qualification round. The qualifying round started at 19:00 Beijing time this evening, Fan Siqi, Qin Yuxuan and Yang Huijing, who had just won the women's singles championship of the WTT Regular Challenge, took the lead, followed by Shi Xunyao and Qi Fei in a civil war, and Zhong Geman, Chen Yi and Zhu Sibing will also play. Chen Yi's opponent is Japan's Zhang Benmeiwa. Zhang Rui had a first-round bye and played in the second round of the qualifiers in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
In the men's singles, Yuan Licen, who won the men's singles championship of the WTT Regular Season Challenge, and teammates Xue Fei, Zhou Qihao, Yu Ziyang, Liu Dingshuo and Sun Wen will all start from the first round of the qualifiers, of which Zhou Qihao's opponent is Japan's Yuji Tanaka. In the men's doubles qualifier tomorrow morning, Zhao Zihao and Xue Fei will play, the first round opponent is the cross-association combination Walter /Gross, Liang Guodong partner Zeng Beixun will play, and the two rookies will play against the French combination of Akuzu / Gassien. In this competition, women's doubles and mixed doubles, national table tennis did not send a combination to participate.
This afternoon, the signing table for the main tournament was released. In the women's singles field, the two national table tennis players Qian Tianyi and Liu Weishan, who directly advanced to the main competition, entered the upper and lower half of the division respectively. Qian Tianyi will face India's Batra in the first round, and the winners of the two will be Against Germany's Shan Xiaona; Liu Weishan will face Japan's Nagasaki Miyu in the first round, and the winner of the two will be Against Chen Siyu in Chinese Taipei. Zhao Zihao, the only national table tennis player to directly advance to the men's singles main event, entered the second half of the zone, and the first round was against the bronze medalist of the World Table Tennis Championships, South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun, and the two winners will face Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Jiyuan.