Qatar Doha Star Challenge began the qualification round of the competition, the national table tennis continued the Doha regional tournament and doha challenge lineup for 3 consecutive weeks, the young lineup of the national table tennis after this and all the fierce opponents, I believe there will be different degrees of gains, and finally a total of 4 men's singles and 3 women's singles qualified to advance to the main tournament, of which the Doha Challenge men's singles champion Yuan Lichen narrowly defeated Portugal's dark horse Girardo, who defeated the No. 3 seed Hugo in the first round of the Grand Slam. Zhang Rui, Fan Siqi and Ziffy defeated their opponents in the women's singles, and Yang Huijing, a member of the 2017 Women's National Games team, was unexpectedly swept by Romanian youngster Diaconu 0-3. Men's singles Zhou Qihao and Liu Dingshuo won the civil war, and Xue Fei defeated Meng Fanbo of Germany.
Doha Challenge women's singles runner-up Zhang Rui met Thailand's Orawan Paranan in the final round of the qualifiers, the Thai women's team under the leadership of Suthasini made a lot of progress, the last round of Olavan also swept the national table tennis ball Zhu Sibing 3-0, this time Zhang Rui accidentally fell into a bitter battle, and finally 3-2 (11-5/11-8/9-11/10-12/11-11-4) eliminated Thailand's Olavan Paranan. In a women's singles derby, Doha Challenge women's singles champion Fan Siqi defeated teammate Zhonggeman 3-0 (11-8/11-5/11-3), although Zhonggeman is the hope star of the national table tennis women's singles, but these three matches still have a lot of shortcomings and did not play at the level they deserve.
21-year-old Ziffy, despite being a straight board player, has played well in the last 3 tournaments, won the women's doubles championship in the Doha regional competition, reached the women's singles top 4 in the Doha Challenge, and encountered the strong opponent Yuan Jiannan of France in the qualifying round of the star tournament, the opponent's positive glue playing style is quite characteristic, even Ito Mimachi suffered defeats in the Grand Slam, but Ziffy lost first in the game and then won to eliminate Yuan Jianan 3-1 (9-11/11-7/15-13/11-9). Yang Huijing, who won the National Games championship for the Sichuan women's team in 2017, lost her only foreign battle of the day, facing Romanian youngster Diaconu, she unexpectedly upset 0-3 (9-11/8-11/3-11).
In the other two Asian matches, japan won all: South Korea's world champion Liang Xiayin lost two consecutive sets to Japan's Sakura Mori with a 2-1 lead. Japan's 13-year-old Zhang Benmei and redoubled their efforts to defeat Chinese Taipei's Liu Xinyin 3-1 (11-8/ 6-11/12-10/11-3).
Men's singles field twice ushered in the national table tennis civil war, in advance of the consumption of 2 members of the general, Sun Wen and Zhou Qihao battle 5 sets to 2-3 (11-6/ 8-11/ 5-11 / 11-11- 5 / 9-11) defeat, Zhou Qihao did not play a good result in the first 2 stops, this station stumbled and almost stopped the qualifiers, and Sun Wen a battle proved that Zhou Qihao was difficult to regain last year's courage, and the gap between the main players and the main players was getting wider and wider. Yu Ziyang, who became famous earlier than Zhou Qihao, is also a member of the World Cup men's team champion, but in the past two years, he has repeatedly encountered the embarrassment of stopping the qualifying round in the international arena, facing Liu Dingshuo in this round, Yu Ziyang lost to Liu Dingshuo 2-3 (5-11/12-10/9-11/11-6/8-11).
Straight-line player Xue Fei and Germany's Meng Fanbo fought for 5 innings, Xue Fei always maintained the lead, and also played 11-1 in a single set, and finally defeated Meng Fanbo 3-2 (11-9/8-11/11-1/4-11/11-6). Doha Challenge men's singles champion Yuan Lichen defeated Portugal's Giraldo 3-2 (13-11/6-11/11/9-11/11-5), who was Portugal's No. 4 main force, behind Freitas, Apolonia and Monteiro, but eliminated Brazil's Hugo in the first round of the Grand Slam, which was eliminated by the national table tennis player.