In the early morning of July 15th, Beijing time, the second round of singles in the Budapest station of the 2022 WTT Star Challenge ended! The national table tennis team achieved a record of 10 wins and 2 losses in a single day, and its overall performance remained stable. Seeded players including Ma Long and Sun Yingsha all advanced smoothly.
Men’s singles second round: National Table Tennis Team 4 wins and 1 loss! Top seed Malone defeated French 15-year-old F-Lebrun 3-1 and will face Portuguese veteran Freitas; Lin Gaoyuan and German player Qiu Dang won 3-2 after a hard-fought 5 games and will face German star Ocharov.
Wang Chuqin easily won 3-0 against the American player Kanak, and will face the No. 3 seed Hugo, who eliminated the national table tennis player Xiang Peng 3-1 to advance! No. 2 seed Liang Jingkun defeated French player A-Lebrun 3-1 and will face Hungarian player Majoros!
Women’s singles second round: National Table Tennis Team 4 wins and 1 loss! No. 1 seed Chen Meng withdrew due to injury; No. 2 seed Sun Yingsha defeated Slovakia player Balazova 3-0 to advance and will face Austrian player Sofia! No. 4 seed Wang Yidi reversed Korean veteran Xu Xiaoyuan 3-1 and will face Japanese teenager Miyu Kihara !
html No. 13 seed Wang Manyu eliminated South Korean player Kim Ha Young 3-1, Fan Siqi defeated German player Mittelham 3-0, and the two will stage a national table tennis derby in the next round. Liu Weishan faced Japanese player Hina Hayata and was eliminated 0-3, becoming the only loser in the women's singles.
doubles: National Table Tennis Team 2 wins and 0 losses! In the first round of men’s doubles, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan defeated the Hungarian team 3-1 to advance; in the mixed doubles quarter-finals, the “king bomb” combination Wang Chuqin/Wang Manyu advanced to the semi-finals with a 3-0 shutout of the Slovak team! Women's Doubles Chen Meng/Wang Yidi chose to withdraw from the match!
​Other association results: men's singles Ocharov, Francesca, Boll, Lin Yunru, Zhuang Zhiyuan, Moregaard all advanced; the only unpopular match was the loss of Zhang Benzhi and 2-3 Egypt player Assal!
Women's singles Kasumi Ishikawa , Hina Hayata, Mima Ito , Miu Hirano , and Miyu Kihara. Five Japanese players have advanced, and they are more numerous than the national table tennis players! In the match between Ni Xialian and Tian Zhixi , veteran Ni Xialian narrowly won 3-2! Du Kaiqin , Han Ying were all successfully promoted!
