On the 22nd, the 2025 Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament entered the knockout stage, and Tomokazu Zhangmoto, the defending champion of China's 4 men's singles and Japan's men's singles, successfully advanced to the top 8 of men's singles. In the round of 16 that morning, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, who advanced to the second place in Group 4, met China's Group 5 leader Lin Gaoyuan, and finally Zhang Ben had the last laugh 3-1 (11-6, 10-12, 11-9, 11-9) and was able to continue his title defense.

In the men's singles, he defeated Lin Gaoyuan, the "head snake", and Tomokazu Zhang successfully continued his journey to defend the title in the Asian Cup table tennis tournament

China's world No. 1 Lin Shidong won 3-1 in the men's singles round of 16 civil war, teammate Chen Yuanyu and "Big Head" Wang Chuqin defeated Chinese Taipei's "Yuzu Classmate" Gao Chengrui 3-0, and beat Zhang Ben's Huang Youzheng (3-1) and "Big Fat" Liang Jingkun (3-2) in the group stage to defeat South Korea's Zhao Dacheng and Zhang Yuzhen respectively.

Chinese Taipei's "Kobayashi" Lin Yunru swept past Japan's 17-year-old rising star Teruku Matsushima 3-0 (13-11, 11-3, 11-1), and the other players who advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals were Japanese duo Yukiya Uda and Hayasuke Togami. In the men's singles quarterfinals that will be launched immediately after the evening, China 4 will win each and will lock the championship in advance, Liang Jingkun will challenge Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Lin Shidong vs. Yuya Uda, Wang Chuqin vs. Hayasuke Togami, and Huang Youzheng vs. Lin Yunru.

Sun Yingsha continued her courage of winning all the group stages and not losing a game, and eliminated Li Enhui in three straight games in the women's singles round of 16

Sun Yingsha, China's world No. 1 sister, continued her courage of winning all the group stages and not losing a game, and eliminated South Korea's naturalized player Lee Eun-hye in three straight games in the women's singles round of 16. China's Chen Xingtong and Kuo Man both lost two games first, and reversed Japan's first sister Hina Hayada and Chinese Taipei rising star Jian Tongjuan 3-2 respectively, and the defending champion Wang Yidi also defeated South Korea's Shin Yubin 3-2, and Wang Manyu defeated South Korea's 37-year-old veteran chipper Xu Xiaoyuan 3-0. However, Shi Xunyao lost 0-3 to Japanese star Misei Ito and became the first Chinese women's singles to go out.

Japan's rising star Miwa Changmoto narrowly defeated South Korean teenager Kim Na-young 3-2 to avenge former world champion sister Miu Hirano, who was eliminated by the latter in the group stage, and Chinese Taipei veteran Zheng Yijing also successfully advanced to the women's singles quarterfinals.

Chen Xingtong reversed Japan's first sister Hina Hayada 3-2

Sun Yingsha shook Zhang Benmeihe in the women's singles top 8, Chen Xingtong vs. Ito Micheng, Wang Manyu vs. Zheng Yijing, Kuo Man and Wang Yidi "ghost fighting", and the Chinese women's players are also expected to lock the championship in advance.

In the group stage that ended yesterday, the 6 men's singles and 6 women's singles teams of the Chinese army all advanced to the top 16, and the female generals all qualified with the top spot in the group and won all 3 matches.