On March 29, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Star Challenge was underway. What is underway is a singles quarter-final battle, with national table tennis Zhou Qihao facing Germany's Francesca. The latter, Francesca, was the European champion, and in the previous round, he defeated the national table tennis player Yuan Lichen 3:1 on aggregate. Zhou Qihao has defeated Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin and others, and has great potential.
In the first set, Zhou Qihao entered the state obviously, took the lead, won the first set 11:9, and led 1:0. In the second set, Germany's Francesca began to counterattack, through the FAR Side, Francesca pulled back a set 11:8, and the two sides drew 1:1. Francesca has defeated national table tennis Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin and others, and is the third player of the German men's team.
In the third set, Zhou Qihao started well, leading 7:4, in the middle of the game, Francesca chased the score to 6:7, and then Zhou Qihao requested a timeout. After the timeout, Francesca reversed the score and led 9-8. In the key sub-link, Zhou Qihao won the set point 10:9, Francesca equalized, and the two sides drew 10:10. The score of the two sides alternately rose, after the 14:14 draw, Zhou Qihao withstood the pressure, 16:14 thrilling victory and another set, the big score of 2:1 lead.
In the fourth set, Zhou Qihao started 5:3 and Francesca chased down to 4:5. Zhou Qihao became more and more courageous, 10:5 successfully won the match point, did not miss the opportunity, Zhou Qihao locked up the victory 11:6, the total score of 3:1 victory over the European champion Francesca, successfully advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals. At present, the national table tennis men's singles two people have advanced to the quarterfinals, namely Zhou Qihao and Xue Fei, and the two are divided into the upper and lower half of the district.
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