He wasted 3 match points in 7 games with South Korea's first brother, and Lin Yan, who missed the top 16 of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, fell short

On the 21st local time, 21-year-old Chinese Taipei player Lin Yanjun fought 7 rounds with South Korea's first brother Ahn Jae-hyun in the top 32 of the men's singles at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, once holding 3 final points, and finally lost 7:11, 11:7, 5:11, 11:5, 11:7, 7:11, 14:16 and stopped in the top 32.

21-year-old Chinese Taipei player Lin Yanjun

Lin Yanjun, ranked 283rd in the world, participated in the World Championships for the first time in his career, swept the 17-year-old Slovak teenager Apas in the first round to win his first victory, and retired in the second round due to a hand injury to France's 9th seed A. Lebrun, and advanced to the round of 32 without blood.

Lin Yanjun was not afraid of Ahn Jae-hyun, who was ranked 17th in the world, and brought a lot of pressure to his opponent by relying on a sharp forehand racket, and once took a 10:8 lead in the tiebreaker, and the two had contacts after all were resolved, although Lin Yanjun missed another opportunity to end the game, but also resolved Ahn Jae-hyun's 3 final points, but unfortunately lost 2 points in a row at 14:14, and lost in 61 minutes.

Another Chinese Taipei player, Gao Chengrui, lost to Sweden's 7th seed Moregard and missed the men's singles round of 16 at this World Table Tennis Championships. On the 22nd, Gao Chengrui and Lin Yunru will face the Chinese pair Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong in the men's doubles quarterfinals.