ITTF WTT Doha Star Challenge ended the first round of the main tournament competition, the Chinese team performance was mixed and worried, the men's singles first round of the national table tennis five-man play to maintain a full victory, Zhou Qihao defeated Apollonia in a 3:1 reversal, Xue Fei swept brazil's Vettel 3:0 in three straight sets, young player Yuan Lichen continued the fiery feel, he fell three straight sets 3:0 to defeat the host player Khalil, Zhao Zihao played well, he defeated South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun 3:1, and Liu Dingshuo defeated Jonescu 3:1. Women's singles first round of the national table tennis suffered a heavy blow, Qian Tianyi, Fan Siqi, Liu Weishan three recently outstanding players suffered defeats in the first round, of which Fan Siqi and Liu Weishan both lost to the national table tennis rivals Japan, Fan Siqi won two sets first and then was defeated by Kato Miyu 2:3, seeded player Liu Weishan also fought hard after five rounds to defeat Japan's famous Nagasaki Miyu, another seeded player in national table tennis, Qian Tianyi, another seeded player in national table tennis, unexpectedly lost to India's Bharat 2:3, and only Zhang Rui and Qi Fei, two national table tennis players in the women's singles, passed the first round.
A total of five men's singles players participated in the first round of the main competition, all five players won the promotion, the most concerned competition in the first round of the men's singles competition was Cho Zihao against the South Korean World Table Tennis Championships men's singles bronze medalist An Jae-hyun, the first set of the game Zhao Zihao and An Jae-hyun played very fiercely in the first half, the middle stage Zhao Zihao gradually opened the score and took the lead in the next city at 11:8. In the second set, Zhao Zihao took a 6-2 lead at the beginning of the game, and then he maintained a four-point lead and finally won another set at 11:7, leading 2:0. In the third set, the two sides began a 4-4 draw, and the trailing Ahn Jae-hyun scored five consecutive points to open the score, and finally won the first set with Ahn Jae-hyun 11-5. In the fourth set, Zhao Zihao did not give his opponent too many opportunities, and he scored consecutive points to open the score at the beginning, and finally won the fourth set easily at 11:7, defeating Ahn Jae-hyun 3:1 on aggregate and advancing to the second round of men's singles.
The youngster yuan lichen, who won last week's regular season challenge, faced the host player Khalil, and in the first set, Yuan Lichen entered the form quickly, quickly pulled away after a brief standoff and won the first set 11:4. In the second set, the two sides played very fiercely, Khalil has been biting the score, at the end of the game Yuan Lichen forced to win another round at 11:9, the big score was 2:0, the third set Yuan Lichen regained the initiative, took the lead at the beginning of the game and completely pulled the score apart, and finally won the third set at 11:4, sweeping the opponent with a total score of 3:0, and strongly advancing to the second round.
National Games men's singles runner-up Liu Dingshuo's first-round opponent is the Romanian doubles star Jonescu, this game Liu Dingshuo and the opponent played difficult to score, the first two games Liu Dingshuo is at the end of the innings to win two consecutive sets 11:9, the third game Ionescu at the end of the game to win a city 12:10, the fourth game Liu Dingshuo withstood the pressure to win 11:8, the total score of 3:1 to win the opponent, to advance to the second round of men's singles. The two famous players, Zhou Qihao and Xue Fei, who played first, won relatively easily, Zhou Qihao defeated Apollonia 3:1, and Xue Fei swept Vettel 3:0 in three straight sets.
Women's singles first round of the national table tennis suffered a heavy blow, last week won the regular challenge women's singles champion Fan Siqi to meet japan's famous Kato Miyu, Fan Siqi started well, she won two consecutive sets of 11:9, 12:10, and then Fan Siqi's state suddenly declined, she lost three consecutive sets of 9:11, 7:11, 9:11 and was eliminated by her opponent with a total score of 2:3. Seeded Player Liu Weishan's opponent in the first round of the match was Nagasaki Miyu, the first half of the game was a 7:7 draw, Liu Weishan scored consecutive points to win the first set by 11:8, Liu Weishan lost a good game at the beginning of the game 5:1, Nagasaki Miyu won the second set with an 11:9 reversal, liu Weishan won another set at the end of the third set with 12:10, the big score was 2:1, and the fourth game Nagasaki Miyu won a set back at the end of the game by relying on the serve to score consecutively to win a set at 12:10. The first four sets were drawn equally 2-2, and the tiebreaker match began with a 2-2 draw, with Miyu Nagasaki scoring consecutive scores to open the score and win 11:4, defeating Liu Weishan on aggregate 3:2.
Another seeded player in the national table tennis, Qian Tianyi, faced India's Bharat, and in this game, Qian Tianyi played too much ups and downs, and finally lost 2:3 to the opponent, breaking out of the big cold. In the first round of the Women's Singles Competition of the Doha Star Challenge, only Zhang Rui and Ziffy won the ball to advance, of which Ziffy played normally, she defeated the German team Winter Sabine 3:1 to advance to the second round of women's singles. Young player Zhang Rui also defeated the Portuguese Chinese celebrity Shao Jieni 3:1. Compared with the previous two weeks of competition, the overall performance of the national table tennis women's singles in this competition is not good, 11 people are currently only left with Two generals, Ziffy and Zhang Rui, and six of the other nine players have stopped qualifying, and the three were eliminated in the first round of the main tournament, of which Liu Weishan and Fan Siqi were defeated by the National Table Tennis rivals Japan when they were in the lead.