In the early morning of April 12, the 2024 men's singles quarterfinals of the WTT feeder event Dusseldorf ended with all the Japanese teams out, and the South Korean team occupied three seats, and the other seat was the American player Jaha Kanek, who had partnered with Wang Manyu to participate in the mixed doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston.
In the two matchups between the South Korean team and the Japanese team, the Korean team Cho Dae-sung lost three games in straight sets and defeated the Japanese team and Chuan Ruiji 3-0. South Korea's Kang Dong-so defeated Japan's Yoshiyama Koichi 3-1, and Kang Dong-so grasped the key points in the first two games, winning two 11-9 and becoming the key to victory.
South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun played five games against France's Roma Luiz, and after the tiebreaker was 8-8, Ahn Jae-hyun seized the crucial point to win the game 11-8.
The U.S. team Kanek 3-1 Chinese Taipei team Feng Yixin, Kanaik won three games, and the score was still quite different.
In the semifinals, Kanek played Kang Dong-so, and Ahn Jae-hyun played Cho Dae-sung.
Many fans know Canek, it is the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis and the United States team have two pairs of cross-association combinations, Wang Manyu partnered with Kanek, Lin Gaoyuan partnered with Zhang An, and Kanaike broke into the quarterfinals in men's singles.
Previously, Kanek had been banned for 12 months for missing three doping tests. Now the ban has been lifted and it has returned.