The three rounds of the men's and women's singles qualification rounds of the WTT Doha Star Challenge have been completed, and the national table tennis can be described as both happy and worried, and in the process, we have also encountered some strong players, such as The Thai dark horse Paranan. In the second round of the women's singles qualifier, Paranan swept the national table tennis player Zhu Sibing 3-0, which was a cold goal. Then in the third round of qualifying, Zhu Sibing met the national table tennis player Zhang Rui, and stubbornly tied the score after falling behind 0-2. Fortunately, Zhang Rui finally broke out to win after playing the decider, avoiding the two consecutive losses of national table tennis to Thailand.
This Doha Star Challenge is a big test for non-main players and young players in national table tennis, usually due to the presence of Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, they are difficult to get too many competition opportunities in high-level competitions. But this time the situation is different, considering that the main player of the national table tennis team is more tired after playing in the Singapore Grand Slam, coupled with the more severe epidemic situation abroad, Liu Guoliang and Qin Zhijian decided to let the national table tennis directly return to China from Singapore for rest, and let the young players participate in the Doha Star Challenge.
Since the world ranking is generally lower, these players need to start from the qualifiers. Originally, many people thought that the qualifiers were not a test for the national table tennis, but in fact, this was not the case. In the second round of the women's singles qualifier, national table tennis player Zhu Sibing met Thailand's Paranan, and As a result, Zhu Sibing lost three consecutive sets 10-12, 12-14 and 7-11, thus being swept out with an aggregate score of 0-3. Such a result is probably not expected by many people before the game, after all, although the national table tennis is not the main player, it should not suffer a 0-3 fiasco in the second round of the qualification round.
After qualifying for the third round of qualifying, Paranan continued to pose a threat to the national table tennis. Facing Zhang Rui, who has a fair level among the non-main players in national table tennis, Paranan first lost two consecutive sets 5-11 and 8-11. But with 0-2 behind, Paranan showed a tenacious side, and she won two consecutive sets 11-9 and 12-10 to make the score 2-2, dragging the game into the decider. In the crucial 5th set, Zhang Rui finally began to break out, she won the crucial 1 set 11-4, defeated Paranan 3-2, and successfully advanced to the women's singles stage.
The Doha Star Challenge still has some foreign players participating, although their strength is not as good as the main players of the national table tennis, but in the face of the non-main players of the national table tennis, at least not up and down. Most of our players have less experience in participating in competitions, and it is difficult to fully exert their strength in this kind of competition, so there will be a situation of losing to foreign players. And this is also the reason why Liu Guoliang, Qin Zhijian and Li Falcon arranged young players and non-main players to participate in the competition, that is, they hope that they will continue to exercise and grow through these competitions.
National table tennis has Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other masters, but at the same time there are Zhang Rui, Zhu Sibing and other sparring players, it is their joint efforts to create the glory of national table tennis. We should also give these sparring players more opportunities to perform more on the stage of international competitions, so come on.