At the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Gao Chengrui entered the top 64 of men's singles, and Zheng Yijing swept the North Korean women's generals

Chinese Taipei teenager Gao Chengrui, ranked 24th in the world, overcame 1:2 in the first round of the men's singles at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in the early morning of the 18th, scored 5 points in a row in the deciding game under 6:8 adversity, and reversed France's Bardet 4:3 after 1 hour of fierce battle, and entered the round of 64 thrillingly.

Gao Chengrui defeated France's Bardet in a reversal and advanced to the men's singles round of 64

Facing the world's No. 70 Bardet, Gao Chengrui fell behind 9:11, 11:3, and 10:12 after the first three games. In the key 4th game, Gao Chengrui decisively called a timeout when he was 3:5 behind, and also found the rhythm of playing, chasing 2 games in a row with 11:8 and 11:7, and taking a 3:2 lead in the number of games.

Bardet launched a counterattack in the sixth game, leading all the way after opening the game 5-0 and tying the game at 11-5. In the deciding game, Gao Chengrui struggled to catch up after falling behind 3:6 and 4:7, and won a continuous forehand attack at 6:8, scoring 5 points in a row and winning 11:8.

In terms of other Chinese Taipei men's players, Lin Yanjun, who made his debut at the World Championships, faced the 17-year-old Slovak Alpas, who is ranked 218 in the world, in the first round, and did not encounter too many challenges, passing 11:7, 11:7, 14:12, 11:4, and the round of 64 will face the French "glasses brother" A. Lebrun, who is ranked 8th in the world.

World No. 67 Liao Zhenting faced world No. 14 German star Frangisca in the first round, and the two had played each other at the 2017 Japan Open, when Liao Zhenting hated 3:4 in the seventh game of the big game.

Lin Yanjun entered the men's singles round of 64 for the first time in the World Championships.

Liao Zhenting fell behind 0:2 and 2:3 in the number of innings, and forced Franciska into the tiebreaker again, and took a 5:3 lead, but Franciska chased 5 points in a row after the pause to reverse the game, and finally Liao Zhenting lost 3:4 (5:11, 3:11, 11:3, 11:8, 8:11, 11:4, 8:11) and failed to advance to the round of 64.

In women's singles, Zheng Yijing, the first sister of Chinese Taipei, ranked 11th in the world, did not encounter much resistance in the face of the mysterious North Korean female player Park Xiujing, and passed the test with 11:9, 11:5, 11:5, 11:8, and the round of 64 will face the Indian female player Zitali, who is ranked 88th in the world.