WTT Tunisia Challenger 2025: The national table tennis "Doll Army" was wiped out, and no one reached the top 8

On the 26th local time, with the 15-year-old Yao Ruixuan losing 1:3 to Japanese women's Miyu Nagasaki in the women's singles round of 16, the "doll army" of the Chinese table tennis team was wiped out in the men's and women's singles events of the 2025 WTT Tunisia Challenger, and no one advanced to the top 8, and the cornerstone of the Chinese team, which has dominated the world table tennis for a long time, also showed signs of loosening.

China's 15-year-old Yao Ruixuan lost to Japan's Miyu Nagasaki in the women's singles round of 16

In order to learn from the model of the Japanese team and hone young players through international competitions, the Chinese team sent 16 rookies aged 13 to 17 in the Tunisia Challenger, including Li Hechen, the men's singles champion in the U15-year-old group of last year's World Junior Championships, and Yao Ruixuan, the women's singles champion.

In the men's singles group stage, the Chinese team of 7 people went out, and only Li Hechen passed the test and won 3 consecutive victories to advance to the top 32 main event, including the 2023 World Youth U15 Men's Singles champion chipper Sun Yang and Huang Xunan, He Zhonggui, Sun Long, Wang Jixuan, and Zhai Jiale were all out of the group stage.

The 16-year-old Li Hechen faced 17-year-old Japanese rising star Teruku Matsushima, ranked 21st in the world, in the round of 32, and also lost 7:11, 4:11, 12:14. The 16-year-old Wu Yifei, who participated in the wild card competition, also lost 0:3 to the Indian good player Desai and stopped in the top 32.

In the women's group, the 13-year-old prodigy Zhu Qihui, who had high hopes, defeated Chinese Taipei rookie Ye Yitian 3:1 in the group stage, but lost 1:3 to Japan's Uezawa Aine in the final round of the qualifying round and missed the main event.

Yao Ruixuan defeated Romania's Diaconu in straight games in the first round of the main event, but lost 1:3 to Miyu Nagasaki, ranked 23rd in the world, in the round of 16; Ding Yijie, who directly advanced to the main event, lost 0:3 to the world's No. 6 Japanese sister Miwa Zhangmoto, and 17-year-old Yan Yulu also lost 0:3 to Japan's Hitomi Sato, both of whom stopped in the top 32.