On April 7, 2024, Beijing time, the third day of the main competition of the WTT feeder race Valaždin ended. In the men's singles field, world champion Christian Carlsen suddenly collapsed, defeating South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun 0-3 and missing the final. As a strong rival of national table tennis, Ahn Jae-hyun is in excellent form at this station, advancing to the men's singles final strongly, and will compete with Hwang Jinting for the championship and hit the first championship of the season.
In the men's singles quarterfinals, Huang Zhenting swept France's Alexandre Cassin 3-0, Christian Carlsen reversed Eduard Ionescu 3-1, and Ahn Jae-hyun narrowly defeated Hamet Desay 3-2. Chinese Taipei's Feng Yixin came back from 2-0 down to beat Luxembourg's Luka Mladenovic 3-2. In the subsequent men's singles semifinals, Huang Zhenting defeated Feng Yixin 3-1 and won a place in the men's singles final.
In the other men's singles semi-final, Ahn Jae-hyun and Christian Carlsen had a strong conversation, but Christian Carlsen suddenly collapsed, lost three games in a row, and lost 0-3 to Ahn Jae-hyun and missed the final. Ahn Jae-hyun has a chance to win his first title of the season and still has a chance to make the Olympic squad, at least in contention for a P-card spot. In the next men's singles final, Ahn Jae-hyun and Hwang Jin-ting had a direct dialogue.
In the women's singles field, South Korea's Lee Eun-hye first eliminated Saji Shibata 3-1 in the quarterfinals, and then eliminated Sakura Yokoi 3-1 in the semifinals, and she won two Japanese players in a row to reach the women's singles final. Lee Eun-hye will face another Japanese player, Satsuki Oto, who was in excellent form after beating Zeng Jian 3-1 and then Romania's Adina Diaknu 3-0.
World champion Christian Carlsen suffered a heavy defeat in the men's singles semi-finals, but he won his first title of the tournament. In the mixed doubles final, Carlsen/C. Carlberg narrowly defeated Feng Yaoen/Wang Xinru 3-2 to win the championship. The Men's and Women's Doubles have also been decided, with France's Burrasad/Dole and Korea's Ji Min-seok/Park Kyu-hyun battling it out for the Men's Doubles title, while Hong Kong's Chu Chengzhu/Lee Ho-ching and Japan's Satsuki Oto/Sakura Yokoi are battling it out for the Women's Doubles title.
The national table tennis was absent from this competition, Japan and South Korea were very competitive, and the disappointing was Hong Kong's Du Hoi Kwan, who was three-sport, all of them missed the finals, this is only a feeder competition, and her performance is still very unsatisfactory. However, Hong Kong's Wong Chun-ting reached the men's singles final, and the Hong Kong, China team also won a place in the women's doubles final, and is expected to hit two championships on the closing day!