Xinhua News Agency, Doha, January 9th. The Asian preliminaries of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships started in Doha, Qatar on the 9th. The final stage of the doubles event is full of seats.
The group stage of this event adopts the knockout system. Most of the national table tennis doubles teams have a bye in the first round. Only Ma Long/Yuan Licen need to participate in the first round of the men's doubles. However, due to the withdrawal of the opponents in the first round, the two won without a fight and advanced to the second round. .
Ma Long/Yuan Licen faced a strong challenge that day. They won three games in a row when they were behind 1:3, and narrowly beat the Indian combination Achanta/Nana Sekaran 4:3.
Another national table tennis pair, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, defeated 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 the game is like this, it is impossible to play particularly well in every game. The important thing is to catch up point by point when we are 1:3 behind." Ma Long Sai said later.
In the women's doubles, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu defeated Kazakhstan's 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 is normal for him and Sun Yingsha to have some ups and downs in the game. Later, they played better and better, and it is good to find some problems from it.
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 singles and women's singles events.
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