After entering 2024, China will participate in three international competitions in Doha, the first one is the men's final. A * * * There are 16 players in the men's singles event and 8 pairs of players in the men's doubles event.
In men's singles, China sent Fan Zhendong, Wang, Li, Liang Jingkun, Lin and Lin Shidong. In men's doubles, China team has three pairs, namely Fan Zhendong/Wang, Lin/Lin Shidong and Yuan/.
Fan Zhendong, the world's No.1, was ranked as the No.1 seed in men's singles, and the opponent in the first round was Dako of Slovenian team. Malone and Lin are in the top half, and they will compete for the same semi-final seat.
The second seed Wang, Lin Shidong and Liang Jingkun are in the lower half. In the first round, Wang will face 17-year-old straight rookie Felix lebrun, who beat Fan Zhendong in the Macau Championship last year.
Competitive situation
The 2023 WTT men's final kicked off in Doha, Qatar on June 38, 2024+10/October 3. In the first match day men's singles final 1/8, five players from China advanced to the quarter-finals. Young Lin Shidong lost 2-3 to German star Qiu Dang and stopped in the first round.
The WTT Doha Men's Singles Finals brought together 16 top men's singles players and 8 pairs of men's doubles players, and the champion will get the ITTF world ranking of 1500 points. In the men's singles competition, Guo Ping was led by Fan Zhendong, who ranked first in the world at present. Wang, Liang Jingkun, Lin and Lin Shidong are all on the list.
Today's first match was played between China's Liang Jingkun, ranked fourth in the world, and China's Taipei star Lin Yunru, ranked sixth in the world. In June, 2023, Lin Yuru, the two main players of table tennis, won the championship at the Frankfurt Championship in 5438+065438+ 10, and was considered as a strong contender for the men's singles title before the game.
Liang Jingkun won the first game with 1 1-6. In the second game, Lin Yunru stubbornly resisted, but Liang Jingkun's control ability was even better, winning another game with 17 compared with 15. In the third game, Lin Yunru felt better and pulled back a city. In the fourth game, Liang Jingkun sealed the victory with 1 1 5, which made a "good start" for Guo Ping.
After the game, Liang Jingkun said that he played well in this game as a whole, and the third game was somewhat distracted, but it was also controllable.
In the following matches, Fan Zhendong beat Slovenian Dako Jotzk 3-2, Malone beat South Korean player 3-0, and Wang Hailin both beat their opponents 3-/kloc-0.
Lin Shidong, who participated in the men's singles competition for the first time, lost to the European champion Qiu Dang 2-3 in the men's singles final. In the first four games, the two sides tied. In the deciding game, Lin Shidong failed to resist the pressure and lost to his opponent with 1 1, stopping the first round. The 2023 WTT men's final will be held from 3rd to 5th local time. The last four seats in men's singles and men's doubles will be decided on the 4th.