On January 8, 2024, the WTT Doha Star Challenge Qualifying Tournament will start, and in terms of national table tennis, Yuan Licen will play in the singles qualifying tournament. In Men's Doubles, Japan's Tomotoshi Haramoto and partner Daito Shinozuka competed. In Mixed Doubles, Sweden's Moregaard and France's Alex Lebrun will play with their respective partners.
The top 20 players in the men's singles
The top 20 players in the Women's Singles
This time, the Doha Star Challenge is an over-spec, 600-point competition, and the restriction on the top 20 players in the world has been removed. For example, in men's singles, as many as 18 of the world's top 20 players participated, and only France's Felix Lebrun and Germany's Ocharov were absent. In women's singles, 16 of the world's top 20 players participated, and the absentees were Japan's Misei Ito, Puerto Rico's Diaz, Japan's Miu Hirano, and Fan Siqi, a national table tennis player who could not play in the association's quota.
In the men's singles qualifying round, a total of 64 players will play, and they need to go through three rounds of PK to compete for 8 places in the main event.
National table tennis Yuan Licen played in the men's singles qualifying round.
In the men's singles qualifying round, players such as Germany's Duda, Iran's Alamiyan, Iran's Alamian, Japan's Yoshimura Maharu, Japan's Yukiya Uda, Japan's Daito Shinozuka, South Korea's Cho Dae-sung, and India's Ghana Nasekaran participated.
In the women's singles qualifying round, 44 people participated, and they also needed to play three rounds to compete for 8 places in the main draw (there will be byes in the first round).
Chinese Taipei's Chen Siyu, South Korea's Kim Na-ying, South Korea's Xu Hyo-won, Singapore's Zeng Jian, Thailand's Olawan Paranam and other players played.
In the Men's Doubles qualifying round, 16 pairs will play two rounds to compete for four main draw spots.
Japan's Tomokazu Haramoto/Daito Shinozuka are playing and due to their low rankings, they may encounter a stronger combination in the qualifying rounds.
Iran's Alamiyan/Alamian, Hong Kong's Lin Zhaoheng/Ho Junjie, Chinese Taipei's Zhuang Zhiyuan/Gao Chengrui, and India's Achanta/Ghana Nasekaran are among the players.
In the women's doubles qualifying round, 12 pairs competed, and they also played two rounds to compete for 4 main draw spots.
They qualify, with 16 pairs playing, need to play two rounds and compete for four spots in the main event.
Sweden's Moregard/Christina Carlberg, France's Alex Lebrun/Yuan Jianan, and Luxembourg's Luca/Ni Xialian played.