In the early morning of March 28, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha Star Competition broke out a super unpopular, the ITTF Finals mixed doubles champion, the No. 3 seed combination of this competition Huang Zhenting / Du Kaixuan (Hong Kong, China) was eliminated just after playing, and the "round trip" was defeated to the German team's Qiu Dang / Mittham.
Prior to this, Huang Zhenting/Du Kaixuan had defeated Olympic champion Mizutani Hayabusa/Ito Mishimasa, World Table Tennis Champion Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen, World Table Tennis Runner-up Zhang Benzhi and/Hayata Xina, and they did not expect to be eliminated in the first round this time, which was really unexpected!
Huang Zhenting / Du Kaixuan is one of the top mixed doubles combinations in today's table tennis world, once able to stand with Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen, Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa, but unfortunately because of Huang Zhenting's injury and other reasons, they missed the best opportunity to impact the Olympic Games and World Table Tennis Medals, but their strength is still there.
Just a few days ago at the WTT Grand Slam, Huang Zhenting / Du Kaixuan won the Japanese world runner-up combination Zhang Benzhihe / Hayata Hina 3-0, and in the semifinals, they played with the new world champion Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha, but this time they overturned the ship.
In the battle with Qiu Dang/Mitham, Huang Zhenting/Du Kaixuan played very unsatisfactory from the beginning, although both sides were paired with a straight-shot male player and a horizontal-shot female player, but Qiu Dang/Mitham clearly played more proactively, and then successfully came out on top 11-8.
In the second set, the Hong Kong players in China still looked a bit conservative, and there were obviously more mistakes, and soon they fell behind again, losing 5-11 and losing another city, and the big score was forced into a desperate situation after falling behind 0-2.
In the third set, Huang Zhenting/Du Kaixuan fought back and finally pulled back Yicheng 11-8. However, just when everyone thought that the two were expected to achieve a reversal, they were bitten by Qiu Dang/Mittham in the fourth set, and finally the key point collapsed, 9-11, and thus was eliminated by the opponent 3-1, stopping the first round of mixed doubles.
It is worth mentioning that the recent progress of this Qiu Party is very large, has fully equipped with the level of competition with the national table tennis team players, and men's singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles can play, the future or will become the core of the German team after Bol, Ochalov, hoping to attract the attention of the national table tennis.