On January 5, the WTT Doha Men's Finals came to an end, and the national table tennis won the singles and doubles championships and runners-up in this competition. In the men's singles final, Wang Chuqin defeated Fan Zhendong 4-0 to win the championship, and the men's doubles championship belonged to Yuan Licen/Xiang Peng, who defeated Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong 3-0.
A total of 6 people played in the men's singles in the finals, Lin Shidong lost to Germany's Qiu Dang 2-3 in the first round, and Liang Jingkun also lost to Qiu Dang 2-3 in the 1/4 finals, and Ma Long lost to Lin Gaoyuan 2-3. Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan, and Wang Chuqin broke into the semifinals. From the semi-finals, Wang Chuqin defeated Qiu Dang in four straight games 11-4, 11-4, 11-5, 11-8, and Fan Zhendong won four games in a row 11-6, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, and defeated Lin Gaoyuan 4-0. Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin performed well in the 2023 season, the two won the men's doubles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban and the Hangzhou Asian Games, Fan Zhendong successfully defended the men's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, and Wang Chuqin won the men's singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles, and men's team four championships at the Hangzhou Asian Games, becoming the first male table tennis player to win four gold medals in the Asian Games.
The men's singles finals of the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban and the Hangzhou Asian Games were both played between Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin, and the two won once each. This time, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin met again in the men's singles final of the finals. In the first game, Wang Chuqin won 11-8. In the second game, Wang Chuqin established a 6-1 lead at the beginning, Fan Zhendong chased the score to 8-9, and Wang Chuqin withstood the pressure to win another game 11-9. In the third game, the two sides went back and forth, and the score was entangled until 12 draws, Wang Chuqin grasped the key points and won the game 14-12, leading 3-0.
In the fourth game, Fan Zhendong, who had no way out, made a 4-2 start, Wang Chuqin scored 4 points in a row when he fell behind 4-6 in the middle game, overtook the score 8-6, won the fourth game 11-7, and defeated Fan Zhendong 4-0 to win the championship. Wang Chuqin won the men's singles championship this time, and lost a game against F. Lebrun in the first round, and then achieved a clean sheet in the next three matches, defeating Zhang Benzhihe, Qiu Dang and Fan Zhendong successively.
The men's doubles final that ended earlier was also a national table tennis civil war, with Yuan Licen/Xiang Peng losing three straight games 11-8, 11-2, 11-8, and defeating Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong 3-0 to win the championship. This is the first time that Yuan Licen and Xiang Peng have participated in the finals, and they only played in doubles to win the championship in one fell swoop, and Yuan Licen will also participate in the WTT Star Challenge Doha station, where he partnered Liang Jingkun in the men's doubles and also received a wild card in the men's singles qualifying round.