On the evening of October 11, Beijing time, the 2023 Yangzhou "Guoyuan Cup" National Table Tennis Championship ushered in the singles 1/8 final, and the result was a collective round of five seeds, and the dark horse ebb and flow! The details of the competition are as follows:
Men's singles 1/8 final: The two seeds suffered a round of swimming, and the dark horse stopped!
Niu Guankai/Xiang Peng
Top half: Top seed Big Fat 3:1 Nick Sun Wen; Liu Dingshuo narrowly defeated Xu Haidong 3:2 in five sets, who eliminated Big Python in the 1/32 final; Zhou Qihao also fought hard to defeat Xue Fei 3:2, leading 8:0 in the tiebreaker, losing 7 points in a row, but won 11:7! Zhou Kai 3:1 sent seeded player Xiang Peng a round!
Wang Tingyu
Second half: No. 2 seed Gao Yuan won 3:0 against Liang Yancheng; Yu Ziyang defeated dark horse Wang Tingyu 3:1, who missed the men's singles quarterfinals of the National Championship and passed by the national team! Veteran Xu Chenhao fought hard in five games to send seeded player Niu Guankai a round 3:2! The only post-00 youngster Lin Shidong reversed Yuan Licen 3:1, and lost the first game at 14:16!
Women's singles 1/8 final: Three sub-groups in one round, dark horses emerge
Liu Gaoyang
Top half: Top seed Da Meng swept 3-0 chipper Yang Yiyun; Qian Tianyi 3:1 Nick Zhang Binyue, who eliminated Sister Zao in the 1/16 final; Chen Xingtong took the youngster Chen Yi 3:0; He Zhuojia sent seeded player Zhang Rui 3:0 for a round!
Second half: defending champion Wang Yidi took away young player Shi Xunyao 3-0; Dark horse Liu Gaoyang fought hard in five games, 3:2 to send seeded player Sun Mingyang for a round! Fan Siqi 3:0 seeded player 19-year-old future star Kuman for a round! The second seed of the tournament, Eel, 3:0 straight board player Wu Yangchen, trailed 6:10 in the first game and reversed at 12:10!