- The Chinese team won the full seat doubles in the final round of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships
- 2023-01-10 11:45:55.0 Source: Xinhuanet
The Durban World Table Tennis Championships Asian elimination kicked off in Doha, Qatar on the 9th. The second round of the doubles group match. The six pairs of Chinese teams that played all won. The Chinese team thus won the doubles event in the final round of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships.
The group stage of this event adopts the knockout system. Most of the national table tennis doubles pairs have a bye in the first round. Only Ma Long/Yuan Licen must participate in the first round of the men’s doubles. However, due to their opponents withdrawing in the first round, the two 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 when trailing 1:3 and narrowly beat the Indian combination Achanta/Nana Sekaran 4:3. Another national table tennis duo, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, defeated Feng Yaoen/Guo Yong of Singapore in straight sets.
“In the first game the performance of the two of us was not so satisfactory. But the game is like this, it is impossible to play particularly well in every game. The important thing is to recover point by point when we are 1:3 behind.” Ma Long Sai said later.
In the women’s doubles, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu defeated Kazakh Akasheva/Mirkadyrova 4:0. Chen Meng/Wang Yidi defeated Li Kaimin/Wu Yonglin from Hong Kong, China 4:2.
In the mixed doubles match, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha defeated Feng Yaoen/Wang Xinru of 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 characteristic, and the overall quality is also high. It’s normal for him and Sun Yingsha to have some ups and downs in the game, then they played better and better and it’s nice to find some problems.
The second round of the singles group stage will be held on the 10th in the Asian preliminaries of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships. The Chinese team has 5 players in each of the men’s and women’s singles events.
