On March 28, Beijing time, the ITTF Doha Star Challenge was underway. Ongoing is a men's singles round of 16 seat battle, with national table tennis player Yuan Lizen facing Germany's Francesca. Yuan Licen won the men's singles championship in the last open tournament and hopes that the open tournament will continue to be in good shape. Francesca has defeated Fan Zhendong and won the European championship.
In the first set, Francesca started 2-0, followed by Yuan Lichen to tie, 2-2. In the middle of the game, Francesca frequently scored through the matchmaking session, Francesca was very powerful, the landing point was also very tricky, francesca led 9:6. In the key points, Francesca won the set point 10:9, Yuan Lichen returned the ball with a mistake, and Francesca won the first set 11:9, leading 1:0.
In the second set, Yuan Lichen started 3:1. In this set, Yuan Licen's state has rebounded, Yuan Lichen withstood the impact of Francesca, and won a thrilling set at 11:9, and the two sides drew 1:1. In the third set, Francesca sealed the victory 11-8, leading 2-1. In the fourth set, the two sides began with a 1-1 draw, followed by Francesca leading 5-3.
Yuan Licen has been forced into a desperate situation, and in the case of backwardness, Yuan Lichen has more unnecessary mistakes, and Francesca leads 7:3. In the end, Francesca locked up the victory 11:4, eliminated the national table tennis men's singles Yuan Licen 3:1 on aggregate, and successfully advanced to the men's singles 16 strong list. Francesca has won two consecutive victories over national table tennis in Singapore' Grand Slam tournament with a 3-2 victory over Olympic champion Xu Xin.
In other men's singles matches, top seed Hugo defeated Germany's Duda 3:0 on aggregate, India's Ghanaese Karan reversed world champion Falk 3:2 on aggregate, American teenager Canek defeated Pukar 3:2 on aggregate, national table tennis straight board player Xue Fei defeated Slovenia's Dako 3:0, Qiu Dang defeated India's Kamas 3:2, and Karlsson defeated Chinese Taipei Liao Zhenting 3:1 on aggregate.