[Tilu News]The WTT India Goa Star Challenge continued on Saturday (27th). Hong Kong table tennis “big sister” Du Kaiqin lost to the host player Sreeja AKULA after 4 games in the third round of the women’s singles and missed the chance. Top 8. “Adu” and Huang Zhenting have completed their trip to India and will lead the World Team Championships next month to compete for tickets to the Paris Olympics.
Du Kaiqin, ranked 36th in the women’s singles world, received a bye in the first round and defeated Singaporean player Wang Xinru 3:1 in the second round. Today, she faced Sreeja AKULA, ranked 68th. Hong Kong fell behind 5:8 in the first game and scored 4 points to lead 9 : 8, but lost 10:12 to “Diao Shi”. “Adu” launched a 4:0 offensive in the middle of the second game to reverse the disadvantage and regained the victory at 11:8. Unfortunately, he failed to pursue bravely and finally won again. After losing 2 games at 8:11 and 8:11, the overall score was 1:3 and stopped in the top 16.
Du Kaiqin (Photo: WTT)
The next event for the Hong Kong table tennis team is the World Table Tennis Team Championships, which will be held in Busan, South Korea from February 16 to 25. The top eight members of the men’s and women’s teams have directly qualified for the Paris Olympics. The draw ceremony was held earlier. The Hong Kong women’s team It was ranked as the No. 6 seed and was placed in Group 6. The opponents in the same group were Portugal, Austria, Australia and Kazakhstan. The men’s team was also drawn into Group 6 and competed with Sweden, Slovakia, Puerto Rico and Serbia.
Huang Zhenting (left) and Du Kaiqin (right) will lead the team in the world team competition next month. (Picture: WTT)
The Hong Kong team’s participating list has also been released, including (male) Huang Zhenting, He Junjie, Lin Zhaoheng, Chen Haohua, Yao Juntao; (female) Du Kaiqin, Li Haoqing, Zhu Chengzhu, Lin Yinuo, Wu Yonglin, Li Kaimin (sparring partner). The coaching team consists of Li Jing, Liu Guodong, Liang Zhuen, Gao Lize and Zhang Rui. It is worth mentioning that this is also the first world championship for Hong Kong table tennis after former head coach Chen Jianghua retired.
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in”[Table Tennis]Du Kaiqin missed the India competition and the list of the top 8 Hong Kong teams for the World Team Championship was released」
2024-01-28 03:46:26
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