Hong Kong Team Advances in World Table Tennis Championships

[Sports News]The third day of the “2023 World Table Tennis Championships” was held on Monday (22nd). The Hong Kong team’s four pairs of doubles came on stage one after another. : 2 narrowly defeated and reached the top 16. The Hong Kong team’s two pairs of women’s doubles Du Kaiqin/Zhu Chengzhu and Li Haoqing/Wu Yonglin also passed the test together.

Huang Zhenting/Du Kaiqin, who defeated the Italian combination in straight sets in the first round, faced the world-ranked 22nd Hungarian combination Nandor Ecseki/Dora Madarasz in the second round. “Huang Dupei” did not start well, losing 7 in the first game: 11. After adjustment, Hong Kong will win two games in a row, 11:6 and 11:5, but was tied by the opponent 5:11 in the fourth game. In the deciding game, the two sides fought each other to “Diaoshi” with mutual lead. In the end, “Huang Dupei” narrowly defeated his opponent 13:11 and entered the top 16. He will compete with the American team Amy Wang/Nikhil Kumar for the top 8 seat.

Du Kaiqin then teamed up with Zhu Chengzhu to play in the women’s doubles event. Facing Singapore’s Zeng Jian/Zhou Jingyi, the Hong Kong player won the first game 11:4. “And then won two consecutive rounds 11:7, 11:7, and defeated the opponent 3:1 in the total number of rounds to advance. The top 16 will challenge the world’s number one Chinese combination Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu. Another women’s doubles pair, Li Haoqing/Wu Yonglin, met Ni Xialian/Sarah De Nutte of Luxembourg. The two sides fought to the “tough time” in the first game. Hong Kong will take the lead at 12:10, although the second game was lost to the opponent with 11:6. , but “Li Wupei” won two consecutive rounds 11:6 and 11:8 to pass, and the top 16 will fight the cross-border combination of Czech Republic and Slovakia Hana Matelova/Barbora Balazova.

In the men’s doubles, Huang Zhenting/He Junjie faced the German combination Dimitrij Ovtcharov/Patrick Franziska in the round of 32. The Hong Kong team won 2:3 (12:14, 11:7, 11:7, 9:11, 6) in five fierce games. : 11) He hated and missed the round of 16.

A group of Hong Kong will continue to attack separately on Tuesday (23rd). The three pairs of doubles that have advanced today will play in the round of 16. In addition, Zhu Chengzhu, Huang Zhenting, Lin Zhaoheng and Du Kaiqin will also play in the round of 64 in singles.

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