On March 25, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Star Challenge is underway. In the just-concluded match, Zhou Qihao, a men's singles player in the national table tennis, eliminated Japan's Yuji Tanaka 3:1 on aggregate and successfully advanced to the second round of the men's singles qualifier. Straight board player Xue Fei eliminated France's Akuzu 3:0 on aggregate and successfully advanced to the second round. In this open tournament, 7 men's singles players of national table tennis participated, of which 6 needed to participate in the qualification round, and only Zhao Zihao directly advanced to the main tournament.
Next, the women's singles qualifier continued, with national table tennis player Chen Yi facing Japan's 13-year-old Zhang Benmeihe. Recently, Zhang Benmeihe's upward momentum is very strong, and he has defeated the national table tennis players Qin Yuxuan, Qi Fei and Zhonggeman in a row, and has exploded 11:0 in a single set. In addition, Zhang Benmeihe also defeated Singapore world champion Feng Tianwei, Zeng Jian. However, Zhang Benmei and two consecutive Open games lost to Zhang Rui.
In the first set, Zhang Benmei and the start of 3:2. In the middle of the game, Zhang Benmei and continuous fast attack scores, the young player Chen Yi unnecessarily made more mistakes, held the link, could not withstand the opponent's attack, Zhang Benmei and 11:6 first won a set, the big score 1:0 lead. In the second set, Chen Yi started 2:1. In the middle stage, Zhang Benmeihe countered the score 5:4, Zhang Benmeihe's landing point was very tricky, and Chen Yi had many unnecessary mistakes.
Chen Yi tied the score, drawing 6-6. Chen Yi 8:6 counter-score, the key point link, Zhang Benmeihe played very steadily, 10:9 to get the set point, did not miss the opportunity, 11:9 to win another set, the big score 2:0 lead. In the third set, Chen Yi's mentality collapsed, and Zhang Benmei and opened 5:1. In the end, Zhang Benmeihe locked up the victory 11:6, dropped three straight sets, and locked up the victory 3:0.
In this way, 13-year-old Zhang Benmei and Chen Yi, the triple-time winner of the Asian Youth Championships with an aggregate score of 3:0, successfully advanced to the second round of the women's singles qualifier. Zhang Benmei and within a week, won 4 consecutive national table tennis players. Liu Guoliang's coaching team had to be wary that Zhang Benmeihe's growth rate was too fast, and it was almost difficult for players of the same age in national table tennis to compete with her.
In other arenas, the national table tennis women's singles Fan Siqi defeated India's Akula 3:0, Qin Yuxuan defeated Chinese Taipei's Huang Yihua 3:1, and Yang Huijing's opponent withdrew from the competition and won without a fight. Ziffy eliminated World Youth Champion Shi Xunyao 3:0 on aggregate, and Zhonggeman defeated Slovenia's Strassa 3:0 on aggregate to advance to the second round of the women's singles qualifiers. Next, there are Zhang Rui and chipper Zhu Sibing.
In the Doha Star Challenge, the single champion will receive 600 points, and the main players of national table tennis Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen, and Chen Meng originally signed up to participate, and then collectively withdrew, leaving only 20 second-tier young players to participate. Du Kaixuan is the top seed in the women's singles, and diaz, Zheng Yijing, Tian Zhixi, Polkanova, Han Ying, Solja, Yang Xiaoxin, Szokos and other famous players will participate in the competition.