At 21:20 Beijing time on November 3, the final round of the men's singles qualifier of the wtt challenge, liu Dingshuo, a national table tennis player, played against Belgian Robin DeVos. A total of 7 players were sent in this competition, including Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Wang Chuqin, Zhou Qihao, Liu Dingshuo, Wang Yidi and Liu Weishan. Among them, Liu Dingshuo and Zhou Qihao in the singles event, due to the previous world rankings, need to start from the qualification round. As a participant in the World Table Tennis Championships, Zhou Qihao suffered a round trip in the qualifiers and did not qualify for the main tournament.
Belgian Robin DeVos, who played against Liu Dingshuo, was left-handed and put a lot of pressure on Liu Dingshuo in the opening stage of the first set, leading 5-2 at one point. Fortunately, Liu Dingshuo was not affected by the backwardness of the opening score, and soon chased the score to 6 draws, and reversed the score 11-7 to win the first set.
In the second set, Liu Dingshuo used a front-hand and backhand conversion in the opening stage to start with a strong 5-0 start. But Robin De Vos, faced with a trailing score, began to fight, scoring consecutive attacks and scoring points to chase the score to 5 draws. After that, the two sides fought all the way to 9 draws, and in the end, Liu Dingshuo went to the next city 14-12.
In the third set, Robin DeVos, who fought backwaters, wanted to use his left-handed characteristics to open the line, but was successfully blocked by Liu Dingshuo's accurate prediction, and Liu Dingshuo was able to lead 6-3 in the opening stage. At this moment, Robin De Vos called a timeout for himself, but after the timeout, Liu Dingshuo still maintained his strength, extended the score advantage to 9-5, and successfully advanced to the main game with a 11-7, large score of 3-0.
At this point, Liu Dingshuo successfully advanced to the main tournament with three consecutive wins in the qualifiers. After the singles stop qualifier, Zhou Qihao, a member of the national table tennis team, partnered with Lin Gaoyuan in the men's doubles match tonight, and lost 2-3 to the Japanese combination, also stopping the qualifier. As world table tennis players, the performance of the two made the fans sweat for them. Fortunately, Lin Gaoyuan, as the number one seed in the men's singles, hopes that he will not be affected by the doubles defeat and can play better in singles matches.