On March 31, the 2022 WTT Star Challenge In Doha began the women's singles semifinals competition, after the national table tennis women's singles were all out, the two Japanese women's singles players and the national table tennis overseas team players, Germany's Han Ying and Chinese Taipei's Chen Siyu, respectively, began to compete. In the end, Kihara Miyu swept Chen Siyu 4-0 to advance to the final, while Han Ying, in the case of 0-2 behind, won four consecutive sets and completed a big reversal 4-2, breaking the Plan of the Japanese team to win the women's singles final and win the championship and runner-up.
As the last leg of the WTT Doha Series, the Star Challenge attracted a number of high-level celebrities to participate, and the main national table tennis players who were originally planned to participate in the competition temporarily changed their plans after ending the Singapore Grand Slam tournament and returned directly to China, still by the second team and the youth team to continue to participate. After experiencing the high-intensity test of three consecutive competitions, the members of the national table tennis team have suffered defeats in the singles competition, and have been out, yesterday's men's and women's singles 1/4 finals, the only three people left in the national table tennis Zhou Qihao, Xue Fei, Zhang Rui, all lost out, the national table tennis rarely did not qualify for the international competition of the men's and women's singles final four.
Without the pressure of the national table tennis players, the mentality of Chinese fans to watch the ball has relaxed a lot, and today will decide the champion of men's and women's singles, so the players who enter the final four will experience the test of a one-day double match. In the women's singles semifinals that took the lead, The German Chinese star Han Ying lost two sets 10-12, 9-11, and lost two sets, and won four consecutive sets of 11-4, 11-2, 11-5, 11-4, completing a reversal, and defeating Japan's Kato Miyu 4-2. In another semi-final, another japanese player, Miyu Kihara, beat Chen Siyu of Chinese Taipei 4-0 12-10, 11-7, 11-5, 11-9.
Han Ying's victory can be regarded as a block to the Japanese women's singles plan to meet the final, before that, Han Ying has defeated another Japanese talented girl, Zhang Benzhihe's sister Zhang Benmeihe. In the course of today's game, Chinese fans and netizens continued to cheer for Han Ying almost one-sidedly, expecting her to win consecutively and win the final championship. Tonight, Han Ying will compete with Miyu Kihara for the final women's singles title, and look forward to the Chinese-American chipper to realize his dream of winning the championship.