On October 2, 0:00 a.m. Beijing time. The men's team final of the Asian Table Tennis Championships was held in Doha, Qatar. The men's team's final match between South Korea and Chinese Taipei. This Asian Championship can be described as a dim star, not only the national table tennis due to the epidemic situation, collective withdrawal, the Japanese men's and women's team of the Tokyo Olympic players also did not participate. Although the South Korean team is the main team, the overall strength of the South Korean team has also been affected due to the temporary withdrawal of the strength player Jung Young-sik from the national team.
In the semi-finals, the South Korean team defeated India 3-0 to reach the final, although it was a 3-0 victory, but in the three-set match, Zhang Yuzhen 3-1 Ghana Nase Karan; Lee Sang-so 3-2 Achanta; Cho Seung-min 3-2 Desai, also involved in the risk; while the Chinese Taipei team defeated the Japanese team 3-2 to advance to the final, the two sides played five sets, and the fifth set of the decider produced the final winner. Among them, Kizo Yongren 0-3 Chen Jian'an; Tokami Hayabusa 3-0 Huang Yancheng; Shinatsu Tsukadai 1-3 Feng Yixin; Kizog Yongren 3-1 Huang Yancheng
Tojo Hayabusa 2-3 Chen Jian'an. The Japanese men's and women's teams are mainly newcomers this time, and the Japanese women's team took the lead in winning the women's team championship.
In the final, Chen Jian'an faced Zhang Yuzhen in the first set. Zhang Yuzhen is still slightly better than Chen Jian'an in terms of COSCO platform ability. But veteran Chen Jian'an's ability to handle small balls in the stage is more dominant. In the game, Zhang Yuzhen's speed advantage often made Chen Jian'an feel helpless, and in the end, Zhang Yuzhen won the first set for the team with a score of 11-8, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7, and a score of 3-1.
In the second set, Lee Sang-so played against Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Jiyuan. In the men's singles competition at the Tokyo Olympics, Zhuang Zhiyuan lost 3-4 to Egypt's Omar, stopping in the round of 16. Lee Sang-so, on the other hand, competed in the men's team and mixed doubles events at the Tokyo Olympics. Veteran Zhuang Jiyuan in the first two sets were behind in the score, to achieve a reversal, respectively, 11-9, 13-11 consecutive two cities, the third set, the two sides after the score alternated to 4 draws, Lee Sang-so took the lead to open the score gap to 7-4, and won back a set at 11-7; in the fourth set, Zhuang Jiyuan actively started in the opening stage and used the first three boards to suppress Lee Sang-so's play. But Lee Sang-so used the backhand bottom line long ball to find a breakthrough point, and in the case of 5-8 behind, he scored 3 consecutive points to tie the score, but in the end, Chuang Ji-won with a more stable play, 11-8, a big score of 3-1. The two sides fought to a draw.
In the third set, it was the two sides of the young player An Zaixian against Feng Yixin. Ahn Jae-hyun became famous in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest over Japanese talentEdi Jang Moto-chi and a match. In the first set, Feng Yixin did not adapt to An Hyun-jae's serve, and he lost points consecutively. But in the stalemate link Feng Yixin did not fall behind, the two sides fought all the way to 10 draws, and finally An Zaixian won the opening red 12-10; in the second set, An Zaixian shot more actively, grabbed the attack successfully, and went down two cities 11-9; in the third set, An Zaixian took the initiative to change the line in the stalemate, which made Feng Yixin confused, but in the case of An Zaixian taking the lead in getting the match point 10-8, Feng Yixin showed the big heart side and chased the score to 10 draws. Fortunately, in the end, Ahn Jae-hyun won the final victory 14-12. South Korea also dominated the big score with a big score of 2-1.
In the fourth set, Zhang Yuzhen played against Zhuang Zhiyuan. In the first set, zhang Yuzhen was 0-4 behind at the beginning of the first set, Zhang Yuzhen won 11-9; in the second set, Zhang Yuzhen took advantage of the victory to pursue and went to the next city at 11-7; in the third set, Zhuang Zhiyuan fought backwaters, while Zhang Yuzhen was momentum at the moment, leading the score 7-4 and finally winning 11-5.
So far, the South Korean team has successfully won the men's team championship in the 2021 Asian Championship, and the last time the Korean team won the championship was in the 1996 Asian Championship in Singapore. The national table tennis team has previously set a history of 11 consecutive championships in the Asian Championship men's team competition.