( Observer Network ) Late at night on March 26, Beijing time, World Table Tennis Professional League official Weibo @WTT World Table Tennis Federation posted a message saying that the Qatar Table Tennis Association social media used the wrong Chinese Taipei flag when promoting the "WTT regular challenge Doha station" event. The error was caused by technical personnel of the Qatar Game Organizing Committee. The Qatar Table Tennis Association immediately corrected this and apologized for the error.

On March 24, local time, the Doha Station competition of the WTT regular challenge came to an end. Chinese players Yuan Licen and Fan Siqi won the men's and women's singles championships. The main athletes of the Chinese team who participated in the WTT Singapore Grand Slam did not participate in the Doha Station event, and the Chinese team's lineup was mainly young players. After the
competition ended, the Qatar Table Tennis Association updated the short videos of the finals of each event on the Instagram homepage.
Among them, the mixed doubles final Chinese Taipei combination Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing fights Indian group Shatian Nanasekaran/Manica Batra above the picture, with the wrong Chinese Taipei flag.

At 23:31 Beijing time on March 26, @WTT World Table Tennis Federation issued a statement saying that on the same day, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation received negotiations from China Table Tennis Association . After verification, the use of the flag was caused by a technical personnel of the Qatar Game Organizing Committee. The Qatar Table Tennis Association immediately corrected this and apologized for the error. At the same time, it assured the WTT World Table Tennis Federation that there will be no similar situations in the future.
@WTT World Table Tennis Federation emphasized that the World Table Tennis Federation will further take measures to strengthen supervision and avoid such accidents, and provide training to the organizing committees of various events.
At present, the image of the wrong flag has been removed from the final collection of the "WTT Regular Challenge Doha Station" in the Qatar Table Tennis Association Instagram homepage.
World Table Tennis Professional League (WTT) was founded by ITTF (ITTF ) in August 2019. The original goal was to focus on athletes and fans to help the ITTF's event system and business system be comprehensively upgraded and transformed.
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