The Chinese team won the full-seat singles in the final round of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships

The Chinese team won the full-seat singles in the final round of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships

2023-01-10 11:45:55.0 Source: Xinhuanet

The Durban Table Tennis World Championships Asian Playoffs kicked off in Doha, Qatar 9. Second Round of Singles Group Match. The six pairs of Chinese teams that played all won. The Chinese team thus won the singles match in the final round of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships.

The group stage of this event uses a knockout stage. Most of the national table tennis doubles pairs get a bye in the first round. Only Ma Long/Yuan Li should participate in the first round of men’s doubles. However, due to their opponents withdrawing in the first round, the duo won without a fight and advanced to the second round.

Ma Long/Yuan Licen faced a tough challenge that day: they won three games in a row from 1:3 down and narrowly beat India’s Achanta/Nana Sekaran 4:3. Another national table tennis duo, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin beat Singapore’s Feng Yaoen/Guo Yong in straight sets.

– In the first game, the performance of the two of us was not so satisfactory. But that’s the way the game is, it’s impossible to play particularly well in every game. The most important thing is to recover point by point when we are 1:3 behind. Ma Long Sai said later.

In women’s doubles, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu beat Kazakhstan’s Akasheva/Mirkadyrova 4:0. Chen Meng/Wang Yidi beat Li Kaim/Wu Yonglin from Hong Kong, China 4:2.

In the mixed doubles, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha beat Feng Yaoen/Wang Xinru from Singapore 4:2. Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Manyu defeated Lin Zhaoheng/Wu Yonglin from Hong Kong, China 4:2.

Wang Chuqin said that the opponent is very strong, the ball is very typical, and the overall quality is also high. It’s normal for him and Sun Yingsha to have ups and downs in the game, then they played better and better and it’s nice to find problems.

The second round of the singles group stage will be played on the 10th in the Asian preliminaries of the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban. The Chinese team has 5 players in each of the men’s and women’s singles.