At 17:20 Beijing time on November 3, the WTT Slovenia Tournament Was still in the qualifying stage. Chow Kai-ho, a national table tennis player who was paired with teammate Hayashi Takato in the men's singles qualifiers, faced the Japanese duo of Isamu Kizoku and Yuji Tanaka. Previously, Zhou Qihao / Hayashi Takato spent 25 minutes to defeat the Japanese duo of Yuma Tanigaki / Daido Shinaizuka 3-0.
In the first set, the Japanese duo was active in the fight and won the opening goal 11-6. In the first set, Zhou Qihao made slightly more unnecessary mistakes; in the second set, Zhou Qihao/Lin Gaoyuan, with the opening score behind, clenched the score, chased it to 5 draws, and after 8 draws, scored 2 consecutive points, took the first set point 10-8, and finally won the set back 11-9.
In the third set, Zhou Qihao / Lin Gaoyuan stepped up their attack from Taiwan and started strongly at 6-0. An interesting scene is that Japan's Yuki Tanaka actually flew out of his hand when he received the ball. Compared with the previous two sets, Zhou Qihao/Lin Gaoyuan gave full play to their near-Taiwan advantages in this set, making it difficult for the Japanese combination to be overwhelmed, and finally won with an 11-5 score.
In the fourth set, Lin Gaoyuan / Zhou Qihao still strengthened the small ball in the stage, and the Japanese combination stepped up the handling of the serve and actively rushed to attack, a tactic that gave the Japanese combination a 9-3 lead. In the end, it was 11-6 to equalize the score, and the two sides entered the tiebreaker.
In the decider, both sides were more cautious in the opening, and after 3 draws, Zhou Qihao/Lin Gaoyuan scored 2 consecutive points, 5-3 took the lead to open the score gap. The Japanese duo called a timeout in time at this moment. After the timeout, the Japanese combination strengthened the connection speed, scored 5 consecutive points, 8-5 to reverse the score, put the master link, Zhou Qihao made a mistake, and sent the opponent another point. In the end, the Japanese duo won 11-5. Zhou Qihao / Lin Gaoyuan regretted that they had stopped qualifying.
At 9:15 tonight, national table tennis player Liu Dingshuo will compete in the final singles qualifier, and if he wins, he will successfully advance to the men's singles main tournament. Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin directly entered the main stage of november 4.