On November 2, the second round of the men's singles qualifier was played at the WTT Regular Challenge Rashko Station, and the national table tennis star Zhou Qihao fought hard for 5 sets, losing to Belgian Olaf Kosoloski. Throughout the game, Zhou Qihao wasted 3 match points and suffered a single round trip.
In order to prepare for the World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis was divided into two roads, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng and other main forces stayed in Wenzhou for training; the three coaches Liu Guozheng, Liu Zhiqiang and Qiu Yike led the team to compete abroad, taking Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, Liu Dingshuo, Wang Yidi and Liu Weishan to Slovenia to participate in the WTT event.
Among them, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao, and Wang Yidi were all selected for the World Table Tennis Championships. In the first round of the men's doubles qualifier at Rashko, Lin Gaoyuan / Zhou Qihao swept the Japanese combination of Yumasa Tanigaki / Daiden Shinzaka 3-0, ushering in the opening of the national table tennis! In the singles qualifiers, Chow played again, he lost 2-3 to Kossolovsky.
In the first set, the two sides lost each other's inning points, or Kosoloski was better, taking the lead at 13-11; in the second set, Zhou Qihao was 11-7 and also in color; in the third set, Zhou Qihao was 1-6 behind, 2-9 was at a disadvantage, chasing 3 points in a row and being 10-5 by the opponent, Kosoloski roared loudly and took another set at 11-8;
In the fourth set, Zhou Qihao started 5-0 and equalized again 11-4; in the fifth set, Kossolski led 8-7, Zhou Qihao wasted 3 match points at 10-9, 11-10, 12-11, and Kossolovsky locked up the victory 16-14;
Zhou Qihao, known as the "nerve knife", was brave enough to defeat top masters such as Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, and could also blast a 19-0 blow to Wang Chuqin, but lacked a bright performance in foreign wars and often dropped the chain. Now selected for the World Table Tennis Championships roster, it is also the coaching team's intention to temper Zhou Qihao.
Unexpectedly, in the first round of WTT singles matches, Zhou Qihao was upset, disappointing, and failed to live up to the high expectations of the coaching staff!