On July 13, 2022, the WTT Star Challenge continued. The national table tennis mixed doubles won the first match. Wang Chuqin / Wang Manyu won the hard-fought five games and took the lead in advancing to the quarterfinals. Good news also came from the women's singles field, Fan Siqi swept French first sister Yuan Jianan is expected to challenge Wang Manyu.
Fan Siqi is 24 years old and ranked 22nd in the world. Fan Siqi once formed a team with Zhu Yuling and won the national team championship. Starting from this season, he got the opportunity to compete with the team. Facing players from foreign associations, Fan Siqi maintained a high level of success. She has reached the finals many times and is about to enter the top 20. Some fans are not familiar with Fan Siqi. She is still very capable, but unfortunately she has fewer opportunities.
This time, Fan Siqi won the singles spot in the star competition by relying on his ranking. World champion Chen Xingtong did not participate in this competition because of ranking issues and could only play in the 150-point side event. Fan Siqi faced French player Yuan Jianan in the first round. The 37-year-old ranked 25th. Last year, his partner Lebesson won the fourth place in the mixed doubles at the Olympics. This year's Grand Slam eliminated Mima Ito and reached the quarterfinals.
After the game started, Fan Siqi was unstoppable and quickly took a 7-2 lead. Yuan Jianan's boards were not of high quality and the first three boards were average, but he had a good way of receiving the serve. Fan Siqi was not prepared and was not used to it. He lost points continuously at the end of the game. Fortunately, the lead was large. Fan Siqi took the lead with 11-8. Both sides scored 5 points in the second game. Then Fan Siqi began to accelerate and soon won another game with 11-6.
Yuan Jianan fell behind to catch up to 8-9 in the third game. Fan Siqi scored 2 points in a row to end the game 11-8. In the end, Fan Siqi swept Yuan Jianan 3-0 and advanced to the top 32 of women's singles. Next, she faced German player Mittheim Nina. , the latter won the women's singles championship in the previous Peru competition, defeating the Japanese teenager Nagasaki Miyou. In addition, if Fan Siqi wins another game, he can join up with his teammate Wang Manyu to compete for the top eight seats.
Mixed doubles produced three top eight seats. Wang Chuqin/Wang Manyu eliminated Huang Zhenting / Du Kaiqin 3-2. This game was very exciting. Wang Chuqin/Wang Manyu fell behind 1-2 and won two games in a row. The decisive game ended with 14- 12 narrow victory, the Japanese combination Zhang Motomo and / Hina Hayata 3-2 reversed Uda Yukiya/Ito Mima, falling behind 0-2 and winning three games in a row, the German combination Francesca/ Solga 3-1 defeated He Junjie/Li Haoqing.
Only Wang Chuqin/Wang Manyu signed up for the mixed doubles event in the national table tennis this time. The two have the heaviest of three tasks. After Huang Zhenting/Du Kaiqin were eliminated, Zhang Benzhihe/Hina Hayata became the top rivals of the national table tennis team. The two pairs met. We are going to the finals, and there are other arrangements tonight. Wang Chuqin will play with , Ma Long, and in the men's doubles, and Wang Manyu will play with , Sun Yingsha, and in the women's doubles. We look forward to their next performance.
