In the early morning of January 11, Beijing time, the table tennis WTT Doha Stars Tournament broke out again, and the women's doubles world No. 1 Korean pair Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin won two games in a row after falling behind 0-2, but finally lost 2-3 to the Hong Kong combination Zhu Chengzhu/Wu Yonglin, China, and missed the promotion, which is indeed a big surprise.
With the exit of Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin, the two teams of Japan and South Korea have been wiped out in the women's doubles event (Miwa Zhangmoto/Miyu Nagasaki lost 0-3 to Kuaiman/Zhang Rui), and the national table tennis championship is getting bigger and bigger, which is really exciting!
Match Focus
Tian Zhixi / Shen Yubin is a pair of women's doubles pairs that rose rapidly last year, in terms of singles strength, the threat of the two to the national table tennis is far less than the main force of Japan, but doubles is not a simple 1 + 1 = 2, in the case of tacit understanding, Tian Zhixi / Shen Yubin broke out with amazing combat effectiveness, the World Table Tennis Championships swept Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu to win the silver, and won the Asian Games again.
Compared with Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin, Zhu Chengzhu/Wu Yonglin's results are much worse, and the singles and doubles rankings are completely difficult to match, but this time their performance surprised the fans.
The process of the game
After the start of the game, the two sides played inextricably in the first game, and Zhu Chengzhu/Wu Yonglin showed more composure in the key points, and then won 11-9 narrowly. In the second game, the Hong Kong, China pair continued to exert their strength, and this time won more easily, winning 11-6, and the big score also turned into a 2-0 lead and forced the opponent into a desperate situation.
In the face of the unfavorable situation, Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin began to organize a counterattack in the third game, and finally pulled back a city 11-7, and then won the fourth game and won 11-3, and the two sides returned to the same running line again, followed by a tiebreaker.
After the start of the fifth game, the Korean pair had the advantage for a while, but they did not hold their positions in the middle game, and were successfully tied and reversed by Zhu Chengzhu/Wu Yonglin. At the critical moment, Zhu Chengzhu/Wu Yonglin performed calmly, and finally the two worked together to end the battle 11-8, which narrowly defeated the world No. 1 Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin 3-2 and advanced to the top eight in women's doubles.
As mentioned earlier, in 2023, Shi Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin performed bravely, won the Asian Games women's doubles championship, the women's doubles runner-up at the World Table Tennis Championships, and defeated top masters such as Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu, but this time they were eliminated in one round, and sure enough, competitive sports are impermanent!
So who are you optimistic about winning the women's doubles championship in this competition?