The schedule on January 11 is out! Sun Yingsha vs. Nagasaki Meiyu, and Zhou Qihao vs. Qiu Dang
As of January 11, the 2024 WTT Stars Challenge Doha has concluded the first day of competition. A total of singles 1/32 finals and doubles 1/8 finals were played on this match day, so the top 32 singles and the top 8 of doubles were all produced.
The national table tennis players participated in 10 of the games, except for Liang Jingkun/Qian Tianyi's "civil war" loss to Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu, the other 9 foreign battles, the national table tennis won all. Liang Jingkun and Yuan Licen partnered in Men's Doubles, facing the cross-association pair of Ash/Exage, and they also encountered a lot of challenges, fighting hard in five games to win thrillingly.
Men's singles
In the top 32 men's singles, the national table tennis accounted for 7 seats. Among them, Zhou Qihao defeated Grote 3-0.
France's Alex Lebrun, Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan, and German veteran Boll were all upset and suffered a round of tours. Japan's Yukiya Uda swept Lee Sang-so 3-0, Hayasuke Togami defeated Pitchford 3-1, Shinozuka Daito narrowly defeated He Junjie 3-2, and Matsushima Teruku beat Gerardo 3-1 to pass the first round. Together with Tomokazu Zhangmoto, who had a bye in the first round, the Japanese team has 5 players to advance to the round of 32.
Women's singles
In the top 32 women's singles, the national table tennis occupies 8 seats.
In the first round of women's singles, Hong Kong, China's Du Kaiqin lost 1-3 to South Korea's Lee Shiwen, and Zhu Chengzhu lost 1-3 to Romania's Diaknu, all out. Yuan Jiannan was swept by Swedish chipper Linda Bergstrom, and "Indian First Sister" Batra lost 2-3 to Australian player Liu Yangzi. South Korean veteran Tian Zhixi narrowly won in five games, while another chipper, chipper Seo Hyo-won, went out 2-3. Thailand's two highest-ranked players in the women's singles face each other in the first round, with Palanam beating Sutasini 3-0 to advance.
Men's Doubles
All three pairs of national table tennis advanced to the quarterfinals. Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong 3-0 Gulani/Kuwari (withdrawn), Ma Long/Wang Chuqin 3-1 Falke/Magnusson, Liang Jingkun/Yuan Licen 3-2 Ash/Exage.
Men's Doubles second seeds South Korea's Lim Joong-hoon/Lee Sang-so were beaten 3-0 by Japan's Hayasuke Togami/Teruku Matsushima. The other Korean pair, who are also top seeds Jang Woo-jin/Ahn Jae-hyun, comfortably advanced to the quarter-finals. Another Japanese pair, Tomokazu Haramoto/Daito Shinozuka, also qualified.
Women's Doubles
The three pairs of national table tennis all kept clean sheets against their opponents and advanced to the quarterfinals. Chen Meng/Wang Manyu 3-0 Jin Naying/Li Shiwen, Qian Tianyi/Chen Xingtong 3-0 Akula/Gorpard, Zhang Rui/Kuo Man 3-0 Nagasaki Miyu/Zhang Moto.
World No. 1 Shin Yubin/Tian Zhixi got off to a bad start, trailing 0-2 and stubbornly dragged the match into the deciding game, but ultimately lost to Hong Kong's Zhu Chengzhu/Ng Wing Lam 2-3 and missed out on the quarterfinals.
The top 5 seeds in the women's doubles of this tournament, in addition to the national table tennis pair Wang Manyu/Chen Meng, the South Korean pair Shin Yubin/Tian Zhixi, the Chinese Taipei pair Li Yuzhen/Zheng Yijing, the Japanese pair Miwa Zhangmoto/Miyu Nagasaki, and the Swedish pair Bergstrom/Carlberg, all went out in the first round.
Mixed doubles
Three pairs of national table tennis pairs broke into the quarterfinals. Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha 3-0 Exechi/Madarats, Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu 3-1 Liang Jingkun/Qian Tianyi, Lin Shidong/Kuaiman 3-0 Ghana Sekaran/Batra.
Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru/Chen Siyu, twice behind and twice equalised, collapsed after 5-6 in the deciding game, lost to South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen/Tian Zhixi, and went out in the first round.
In the quarterfinals of mixed doubles, there are two Korean pairs, and they are both in the quarter-finals, securing a place in the semi-finals in advance. There is also Hong Kong's Wong Chun-ting/To Hoi-king, Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayata, and Romania's Ionescu/Szokos.
On the second day of the main event, there will be the 1/16 finals of the men's and women's singles, the quarterfinals and semifinals of the three doubles. The players who have a bye in the first round of singles will all make their debut.
Wang Manyu/Lin Gaoyuan will face teammates Kuo Man and Lin Shidong in the quarter-finals after facing teammates Qian Tianyi/Liang Jingkun in the first round of mixed doubles. The men's singles will face a lot of challenges in many matches, Zhou Qihao against Qiu Dang, Fan Zhendong against Francesca, and Wang Chuqin against South Korean player Ahn Jae-hyun, all of which are highly competitive. The two pairs of Japanese men's doubles will be the opponents of national table tennis in the 1/4 finals.
The schedule of national table tennis players on the second match day of the main competition
18:00 Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha VS Huang Zhenting/Du Kaiqin
18:00 Mirage/Wang Manyu VS Lin Shidong/Kuo Man
18:35 梁靖崑 VS 篠塚大登
18:35 Chen Xingtong VS Adina Diaknu
19:10 Qian Tianyi VS Pritica Pavard
19:10 Wang Yidi VS Olawan Paranan
19:10 周启豪 VS 邱党
19:45 Zhang Rui/Kuaiman VS Pokanova/Szokos
20:20 Chen Meng/Wang Manyu VS Samara/Dragoman
20:20 Ma Long/Wang Chuqin VS Guo Yong/Feng Yaoen
20:55 Mirage/Lin Shidong VS Mine/Shinozuka Daito
20:55 Qian Tianyi/Chen Xingtong VS Matlova/Balazova
21:30 vs. 21:30 vs. 11:30 VS 10:00 VS 2:00
21:30 梁靖崑/袁励岑 VS 户上隼辅/松岛辉空
21:30 Lin Shidong VS Anders Linde
23:00 Fan Zhendong VS Francesca
23:35 Malone VS Duda
23:35 蒯曼 VS 倪夏莲
23:35 Wang Manyu VS Liu Yangzi
January 12 00:10 Chen Meng VS Polkanova
00:10 Lin Gaoyuan VS Alexander Cassin
00:45 Wang Chuqin VS Ahn Jae-hyun
00:45 张瑞 VS 邵杰妮
Do you think which player in national table tennis has the biggest challenge?