On the afternoon of September 1, Beijing time, the 2023 WTT Regular Challenge Almaty Station began to compete in the round of 16 singles and 8 in doubles. The men's doubles 8-strong table tennis 2 combination played, and Seo Hae-dong/Son Wen played first against South Korea's Kang Dong-so/Park Chan-hyuk.
Xu Haidong/Sun Wen quickly entered the state in the first game, and won the first game quickly and easily at 11:3. In the second game, Xu Haidong/Sun Wen took advantage of the victory to chase the opening 5:2 lead, and after holding each other until 7:4, Xu Haidong/Sun Wen blasted a small attack wave of 4:1 and 11:5 to the next city. In the third game, the South Korean duo scored two consecutive points to take the lead, and Seo Hae-dong/Sun Wen steadied the score to tie the score at 3:3. After that, the two sides fought very glue, 4:4, 5:5, 6:6, 7:7.
After 7 draws, Xu Haidong/Sun Wen scored 2 points in a row to open the point gap, and after the Korean combination tenaciously chased another 1 point, Xu Haidong/Sun Wen scored 2 more points, won the third game 11:8, and swept the semifinals 3:0 on aggregate. Later, the other pair of men's doubles Lin Shidong/Xu Yingbin of National Table Tennis played against the Abdul/Asar combination, and they also quickly entered the first game and got a good start of 6:1. After Abdul/Asar chased the score to 4:8, Lin Shidong/Xu Yingbin scored three more consecutive points to easily win the first set at 11:4. In the second game, Abdul/Asar started well to take a 3:1 lead, but Lin Shidong/Xu Yingbin stabilized and as soon as they broke out, they couldn't withstand it at all, and directly slammed a 10:1 attack wave, and won another game at 11:4.
In the third game, Abdul/Asar started better, playing a 6:1 attack wave, but Lin Shidong/Xu Yingbin once again stunned them, and finally committed suicide by serving, Lin Shidong/Xu Yingbin once again blasted a 10:1 attack wave, Lin Shidong/Xu Yingbin won another game 11:7, and the total score was also 3:0 to easily advance to the round of four. When Xu Haidong/Sun Wen played, there was also a women's singles round of 16 match at almost the same time, with national table tennis junior Zhu Sibing against South Korea's Zhu Qianxi, the two of them fought incomprehensibly, and the battle continued after the men's doubles two games were divided.
After holding each other at 8:7 in the first game, Zhu Sibing played a small attack wave of 3:1 and won the game 11:8. In the second game, Zhu Sibing suddenly collapsed, and was beaten by Zhu Qianxi with a 7:0 attack wave at the beginning, and although she then fought to chase the score, she still lost the second game 5:11. After the start of the third game reached 2:2, Zhu Sibing scored 3 consecutive points and took the lead in opening the gap at 5:2. After that, Zhu Qianxi chased the score hard, chasing all the way to 7:9, and Guoping called a timeout. After returning from a timeout, Zhu Qianxi was still able to score consecutive points and chased 9 draws. At this time, Zhu Sibing stabilized 10:9 and got the game point.
Zhu Qianxi then chased the score to 10 draws, and in the battle for key points, Zhu Sibing was more stable, and won another game 12:10 after the upper smash score, and the total score was 2:1 to take the lead again. In the fourth game, the two were still grappling, and the score alternately rose, and Zhu Qianxi led by three points at one point, 7:4. After Zhu Sibing rose to 8:9, Zhu Qianxi called a timeout. However, the timeout failed to curb Zhu Sibing's scoring momentum, and after the timeout, Zhu Sibing scored 3 points in a row and won the fourth game in a single game 11:9, thus defeating Zhu Qianxi 3:1 on aggregate to advance to the round of eight. When they divided the winner and loser, the other venue, the women's doubles Chen Yi/Qu Man on the national table tennis side, all appeared in the half game.