On March 27, 2022, the table tennis Doha Star Tournament continued, the third round of the men's singles qualification round, the two national table tennis players took the lead in qualifying, Liu Dingshuo narrowly defeated Ziyang 3-2, and Yuan Lichen eliminated Portugal's Geraldo 3-2, all of which won the game through the decider.
Liu Dingshuo and Yu Ziyang both have the strength to enter the main tournament, but unfortunately the two signed bad luck, in the third round of the qualification round, only one person can be promoted, Liu Dingshuo won the men's singles runner-up of the National Games last year, Yu Ziyang won the team world championship with the team, both sides are very strong young players, Liu Dingshuo also has the World Youth Championship men's singles champion, Yu Ziyang won the singles championship on the tour at the age of 16.
The two in the team have won and lost each other, the strength is relatively close, but the recent performance of Liu Dingshuo is more stable, Yu Ziyang's play is worse, often eliminated in the qualifiers, the first set Liu Dingshuo by improving the quality of the veneer, with Yu Ziyang to attack, COSCO Taiwan holding Liu Dingshuo has an absolute advantage, soon opened the point difference, and then Liu Dingshuo scored consecutively, banging out 11-5 first.
In the second set, Yu Ziyang strengthened the offensive, through the change of rhythm but limited the opponent's attack, the score alternately rose, the two sides scored many times, Liu Dingshuo led 9-7, Yu Ziyang chased to 10 draws, yu Ziyang's performance at the critical moment was even better, scoring 2 consecutive points to win 12-10, in the third set Yu Ziyang took advantage of the chase and took a 5-3 lead, both sides scored 4 points, Liu Dingshuo scored 4 consecutive points to reverse 11-9.
Next Yu Ziyang backwater battle, Liu Dingshuo appeared more senseless mistakes, Yu Ziyang took an 8-6 lead, and then scored 3 consecutive points to equalize 11-6, the decider Liu Dingshuo led 3-1, Yu Ziyang chased 6 draws, Liu Dingshuo seized the opportunity, opened the point difference to 9-7, and finally locked up the victory at 11-8, fought hard for five sets 3-2 to win against Ziyang, the world championship qualifier was out, this time it was important to participate.
At the same time, the post-00 young player Yuan Lichen fought hard for five sets, eliminating portugal player Geraldo, who was the number one seed in the qualification round, who once defeated Brazil's famous Calderano in the Grand Slam, scoring 11 points each in the first set, Yuan Lichen scored 2 consecutive points to win 13-11, in the second set Geralder more than 11-6 equalized, Yuan Lichen was not willing to show weakness, and blasted 11-6 to color.
Then Geraldo with the grasp of the key points, scored 2 consecutive points to win 11-9, the decider Yuan Lichen played steadily, and finally locked in the victory 11-5, 3-2 narrowly defeated Geraldo to advance to the main tournament, won the men's singles championship in the Doha Challenge, scored 400 points, continued to improve the world rankings, came to the star game to increase to 600 points, whether he can achieve another good result, let us wait and see.