On April 13, 2024, Beijing time, the WTT feeder tournament Dusseldorf came to an end, and in the case of the national table tennis collective giving up participation, 6 teams shared the gold medal, of which the men's doubles was a pair of multinational pairs to win the championship. The 19-year-old Japanese rising star Satsuki Oto has achieved back-to-back titles, and many fans believe that she has the level of the world's top 20 and may not be as strong as Ito.
In the men's singles, three South Korean players reached the semi-finals, but it was Kanak Jaha of the United States who won the title. This was the first tournament for Kanak Jaha's return from the ban, and he came out on top, sweeping Kang Dong-so 3-0 in the semi-finals and meeting Ahn Jae-hyun in the final. Ahn Jae-hyun also had a great semi-final as he swept past teammate Cho Dae-sung 3-0. The Men's Singles final was very tight, with Kanak Jaha winning two games in a row from 2-1 down to defeat Ahn Jae-hyun 3-2 to win the tournament.
Kanak Jaha has defended his position as the first brother of the United States and will unsurprisingly qualify for the Paris Olympics. The South Korean team reached the semi-finals with three people, and finally failed to hold on to the championship, which was really helpless, especially Ahn Jae-hyun reached the men's singles final in two consecutive feeder tournaments, and was previously reversed by Hwang Jin-ting, and this time was reversed by Kanak Jaha, who looked very disappointed after the game.
In the women's singles semifinals, Satsuki Oto swept Liu Xinyin 3-0, and Zhu Chengzhu won three games in a row after falling behind 0-2 and reversed South Korea's Lee Eun-hye 3-2. In the final finals, Satsuki Oto won three games in a row after losing one game, reversing Zhu Chengzhu 3-1, achieving the feat of winning back-to-back championships in two consecutive feeder tournaments. Satsuki Oto is only 19 years old, and although she has not participated in international competitions in the past two seasons, she is very strong, and many fans believe that she is a top 20 in the world, and may not lose to Misei Ito.
Although Zhu Chengzhu lost the Women's Singles title, she had the last laugh in the Women's Doubles, and she partnered Li Haoqing to defeat South Korea's Kim Ha Young/Lee Eun Hye 3-2 to be crowned Women's Doubles champion. The Men's Doubles title went to the multinational pair of Dias/Nuitik, while in the Mixed Doubles, Korea's Park Kang-hyun/Kim Na-young and Singapore's Guo Yong/Zhou Jingyi won the title without a fight.
In the absence of national table tennis, 6 teams shared the gold medal, namely Hong Kong, China, Japan, the United States, Singapore, Poland, and Belgium. The South Korean team failed to continue its strong streak and only won three runners-up, which was a little helpless.
In addition, in the WTT Youth Star Challenge Podgorica, after Sun Yang won the U19 men's singles championship, the national table tennis won another U15 mixed doubles championship, Li Hechen/Yao Ruixuan defeated the Korean pair Lee Seung-so/Choi Seo-yeon 3-1 and successfully won the championship.
Finally, the mixed doubles table tennis qualifying tournaments for the Paris Olympics have all ended, with Lee Jung-sik/Kim Jin-young, Hwang Jin-ting/To Hoi Kim, Alvaro Robles/Xiao Yaoqian, Christian Carlsen/Christina Carlberg qualifying for the Olympic Games. There are a total of 16 mixed doubles quota places at the Olympics, and in addition to the above four pairs, five more quota places have been confirmed through the continental qualifiers: Lim Boon Jung/Ji Min-hyung, Omar Assar/Tina Meshef, Qiu Dang/Nina Mittram, Jorge Campos/Daniela Fonseca, Witt Ash/Takahashi Bruna, and the host country France automatically has one quota place. The remaining six quota places will be determined through the world rankings in the 19th week of 2024 (7 May 2024), with national table tennis Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin, Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayata, and Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru/Chen Siyu all locked up their Olympic quotas, and veteran Ni Xialian still retains a glimmer of hope!