On March 30, the bad news of the WTT Doha Star Challenge came from the national table tennis: after Zhou Qihao and Zhang Rui were out, the national table tennis men's and women's teams were completely destroyed, and no team members broke into the singles top 4. After the collective withdrawal of the main force of the national table tennis, the non-main players in Doha finally did not hold the pressure, encountered the annihilation of the group, and no one could carry the national table tennis banner.
Doha station has successively held branch, regular and star challenges, and the challenges encountered by national table tennis are getting bigger and bigger, and the performance is also declining. In the regional challenge, the national table tennis won four championships: men's singles, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. In the regular season challenge, Yuan Licen and Fan Siqi won the men's and women's singles championships on behalf of the national table tennis, and Zhang Rui won the women's singles runner-up.
Coming to the higher level of the Star Challenge, the non-main players of the national table tennis team faced more foreign association celebrities and lost continuously. The Chinese team has a total of 4 male players and 3 female players who enter the singles competition through the qualification round; plus the players who are directly shortlisted for the main competition, the national table tennis has 5 athletes from men and 5 women each participating in the singles competition. In terms of doubles, the national table tennis only sent Xue Fei / Zhao Zihao to participate in the men's doubles, and the result was out in the first round of the qualifiers.
In the first round of the singles tournament, 3 members of the women's team were eliminated, among them, Fan Siqi lost to Japan's Miyu Kato, Liu Weishan was eliminated by Miyu Nagasaki, and Qian Tianyi lost to India's Batra. Subsequently, Liu Dingshuo, Yuan Licen, Qi Fei, and Zhao Zihao were eliminated one after another. The national table tennis men's and women's teams only have 3 people to advance to the top 8, they are: Xue Fei, Zhou Qihao, Zhang Rui.
In the singles quarterfinals, Xue Fei first lost 1-3 to Croatia's Gahina, and then, the men's singles Miao Zhou Qihao was swept out by Aruna 0-3. It is worth mentioning that The African brother Aruna has eliminated 3 national table tennis players in a row: Liu Dingshuo, Zhao Zihao, and Zhou Qihao.
Aruna has always fought alone, without coaching sparring, this time can be a series of national table tennis 3 generals, can be called a big cold, so powerful, it is really admirable. After sweeping Zhou Qihao, Aruna was so excited that he covered his face with his clothes, a little in disbelief.
After the men's team was destroyed, the national table tennis team was only Zhang Rui, and as a result, she also failed to survive to the semifinals, losing to Chen Siyu 1-3, being eliminated and stopping the women's singles top 8. At this point, the national table tennis men's and women's teams were all out, ending the Doha Star Challenge with 0 crowns.
In the previous Singapore Grand Slam competition, the national table tennis players who participated in the full main force won all 5 championships, but for various reasons, they finally withdrew from the Doha Star Challenge, and the non-main players failed to seize the opportunity, which also showed that there was indeed a big gap between them and the main players, and the masters of the foreign association did not have any advantage.
In fact, in the main force of the national table tennis men's team, it is reassuring that Fan Zhendong and Ma Long play foreign wars, and the number of foreign wars lost after Xu Xin was older increased, and he lost to Francesca in the Grand Slam competition, while Lin Gaoyuan often overturned the foreign war, which was worrying. The stability of Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin in fighting foreign wars is improving, but there is still a great room for progress.
The main force of the women's team playing foreign battles is still relatively reassuring, like Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi facing the strongest opponent Ito Mimako, all of which have a very high winning rate. Nowadays, the main force of national table tennis has returned to the country for isolation, and the Doha squad can finally return to China after the end of all the events, they actually played 3 consecutive events, or very tired, hoping to rest well.