After her brother reached the second round, Zhang Benmeihe also won the singles debut match at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha

On May 18, in the first round of the women's singles at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, 16-year-old Japanese table tennis sister Miwa Zhang (ranked 6th in the world) defeated the Ukrainian player 4-1Diaconu(ranked 126th in the world) and reached the second round.

16-year-old Japanese table tennis sister Miwa Zhangmoto

This game is the debut match of the talented high school student Zhang Benmei and the World Table Tennis Championships, she participated in the 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Championships team competition in the past, and won the women's team runner-up with the team. This battle is Zhang Benmei and the 33-year-old Ukrainian veteran who has been active on the international stage for a long timeDiaconuThe first battle. Although suffering from the opponent's backhand attack and the extended backhand serve, because the long serve destroyed the opponent's catch, Zhang Benmei and won the first game.

The next second game was also a fierce battle, and after the two sides played to 15 draws, Zhang Benmei won with the power of his serve. In the third game, Zhang Benmeihe wanted to take advantage of the momentum, but found that it was difficult for him to catch the rhythm. Diaconu's ranking is far inferior to Miwa Zhangmoto, but she has shown a good ability to hold each other in this game. Zhang Benmei and his side also made a few mistakes, and they could only watch the opponent pull back a city.

Ukraine's Diakonu

In the first half of the fourth game, Zhang Benmei and made consecutive mistakes to allow the opponent to take the lead, but Zhang Ben, who did not change his strong stance, reversed in the final stage. In the 5th game, Miwa Zhang's backhand was full of power, and the quality of the return was also within a controllable range, and finally won the whole game. In the second round of the Women's Singles, Zhang will face the winner of Germany's Wan Yuan and Portugal's Fu Yu.

Tomokazu Zhangmoto, the world's fourth-ranked Japanese table tennis brother

In a previous men's singles first-round competition at the World Table Tennis Championships, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, the elder brother of Miwa Zhangmoto, defeated South Korea's invincible Lin Zhongxun 4-1, taking the first step towards the goal of winning a medal in singles at the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time in 46 years. In the second round, Tomokazu Harimoto will face India's Manav Tahar across the net.