On March 31, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Star Challenge is underway. Today is the closing day and will produce women's singles, men's singles, and mixed doubles titles. It is worth mentioning that in this open tournament, the national table tennis coaching team arranged 19 people to register for the competition, and the result was that the pentathlon was completely destroyed, and the singles directly did not advance to the final four. In terms of doubles, mixed doubles, women's doubles have no one to participate, men's doubles singles miao Xue Fei Zhao Zihao directly stopped the qualifiers.
Men's singles, the national table tennis has 2 people to advance to the quarterfinals, in the final four seats battle, Zhou Qihao faced the African Cup of Nations champion Aruna, Zhou Qihao lost three consecutive sets, the total score of 0:3 lost to Aruna, no chance to advance. In this open tournament, Aruna won consecutively against Liu Dingshuo, Zhao Zihao and Zhou Qihao. Aruna is self-funded, has no off-field coaches, has always been alone, and he didn't start learning table tennis from an early age.
It is worth mentioning that every time Aruna plays, he is accompanied only by towels and water glasses, there is no off-field coach, and he completely needs to rely on his own understanding to understand the game. He was always far away, alone, without coaches and without logistics. Compared with other athletes, he needs this prize money more to support himself to continue his sports career, and he is the real lone brave. Moreover, it is understood that his prize money has been donated to the local Nigerian government to prepare for the establishment of two primary schools.
In other arenas, the national table tennis straight board player Xue Fei lost to Croatian veteran Gasina 1:3 on aggregate, and South Korean youngster Lin Zhongxun defeated the second seed Lin Zhongxun 3:1 on aggregate. In the final match, the top seedEd Brazil's Hugo lost 1:3 on aggregate to Swedish world champion Carlsson and missed the promotion. Brazil's famous Hugo is ranked third in the world, and the world ranking is only second only to Fan Zhendong and Ma Long.
In the men's singles semifinals, Swedish world champion Carlsson faced Croatian veteran Gasina and African champion Aruna faced South Korean youngster Lin Zhongxun. In this open tournament, not only the national table tennis men's singles 8 people were all wiped out, there was no chance to compete for the men's singles championship, the seeded players were also unpopular frequently, Hugo, Lin Yunru, Huang Zhenting, Simon, Dako, Falke and other people have been out of the game in advance, and have no chance to advance to the top four list.
In this open tournament, the national table tennis coaching team arranged for second-tier players to participate, and the main players Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin and others were absent. As a result, no one advanced to the final four. Many fans think about when Malone will retire, and in terms of the current reserve strength of the national table tennis men's singles, it is really impossible without Malone. Veteran Malone, whether against the outside association, or teammates, is still worthy of the trust of fans, watching Malone's game, I feel very relieved.