The WTT Star Challenge continues in Doha, where 13-year-old Japan's Zhang Benmei lost 1-3 to German chipper Han Ying in the second round of the women's singles tournament and missed the promotion. Although she lost, Zhang Benmeihe's performance during this time was impressive, and she participated in three consecutive tournaments in Doha, defeating several players, including four national table tennis players.
In this competition, Zhang Benmeihe started from the qualifiers, defeated the national table tennis player Chen Yi 3-0 in the first round, and then defeated Zhu Chengzhu of Hong Kong and Liu Xinyin of Chinese Taipei 3-0 and 3-1 respectively to advance to the main tournament. In the first round of the main match, she lost three straight sets and won 3-0 against Egypt's Messeliff to advance to the second round. In the second round, Zhang Benmeihe's opponent is 38-year-old German star and chipper Han Ying, who has met twice in the T-League in Japan, and the two sides have won once each. In this encounter, Zhang Benmeihe lost three consecutive sets in a row of 10-12, 3-11, 6-11 in the case of winning a set first 12-10, and lost to Han Ying 1-3 in a big score, missing the round of 16. Zhang Benmei and today's off-court coach is her mother, Zhang Ling, a former national table tennis player, who was also a chipper.
For more than half a month, in Doha, Qatar, the WTT Regular Season Challenge and the WTT Star Challenge have been held consecutively, and the main players in China and Japan have not participated, but young players have competed. In these matches, the Japanese women's team won and lost against each other, and the performance of 13-year-old Zhang Benmeihe was eye-catching enough. In the WTT regional event Doha, Zhang Benmeihe, who participated in the international competition of the senior group for the first time, defeated Qin Yuxuan and Qi Fei with a large score of 3-0, 4-1 consecutive national table tennis players, and when facing the third national table tennis player Zhang Rui, he lost 3-4 in seven sets and stopped in the round of 16.
At last week's WTT regular season challenge in Doha, Zhang Benmeihe defeated the national table tennis rookie Zhonggeman 3-2 in the qualifiers, defeated Feng Tianwei 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals, and finally lost 1-3 to Zhang Rui of the national table tennis, missing the final four. In this star challenge, she fell three straight sets and defeated Chen Yi 3-0, showing her good strength.
Zhang Rui, who defeated Meihe Zhang Ben in two consecutive matches, lost 2-4 to Miyu Kihara in the side matches and missed the semifinals, but won 4-0 in the regular challenge to advance to the final. In the first round of the women's singles of this competition, Liu Weishan and Fan Siqi lost to Japan's Miyu Nagasaki and Miyu Kato respectively by a large score. In the previous two games, the overall performance of the national table tennis women's team was not bad, winning the women's singles championship and runner-up consecutively, in the side matches, Qian Tianyi defeated Liu Weishan 4-1 to win the championship; in the regular season challenge, Fan Siqi defeated Zhang Rui 4-3 to win the championship. In this competition, only Qi Fei and Zhang Rui advanced to the second round of women's singles.