Japan's "Sky" combination lost to Shatou, and Zhang Benmei's dream of winning the triple crown of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships was disappointed

The 6th match day of the 2025 Table Tennis World Championships was held in Doha on the 22nd local time, and in a mixed doubles quarterfinals, the young Japanese pair Matsushima Teruku/Miwa Zhang lost 1-3 to Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, a national table tennis powerhouse, and missed the medal while missing the semifinals.

Young Japanese pair Teruku Matsushima/Miwa Haramoto

Mixed doubles is a doubles event with the highest winning coefficient of national table tennis in this World Table Tennis Championships, with world No. 1 Lin Shidong/Kuo Man, Olympic champion and previous two World Championships champions Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha forming a "double insurance" situation. However, Lin Shidong/Kuaiman lost to the Japanese pair Yoshimura Maharu/Satsuki Oto in a quarter-final match on the 21st. In this way, the burden of winning gold in the national table tennis mixed doubles is all on Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha.

Teruma Matsushima/Miwa Haramoto trailed 2-5 in the first game, but from there they scored eight consecutive points to take the lead 11-6. The second game was also very tight, and Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, who had a stronger grasp of the key points, tied the game 11-9.

Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha reversed the Japanese pair and reached the semifinals of the mixed doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships

In the third game, the two sides also competed fiercely 8-8 and 9-9 to the end, and finally Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha won 11-9. In the 4th game, Matsushima Teruku/Zhang Benmiwa scored three times in a row from 6-10 to Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha with four match points, but the last match point was still cashed in by Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha.

The 18-year-old Teruku Matsushima and 16-year-old Miwa Harimoto are currently ranked No. 4 in the world in Mixed Doubles. The duo won the WTT Stars Challenge in Doha in January and finished runners-up at the WTT Singapore Grand Slam in February. It is worth mentioning that the first sister of Japanese table tennis Zhang Benmei and this World Table Tennis Championships are three, and the stop in the quarterfinals of mixed doubles means that her plan to win the three triple crowns (women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles) shouted before the game has been shattered in advance.

South Korea's Mixed Doubles pair Lim Joong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin

According to the mixed doubles draw, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha will compete in the semi-finals with the Paris Olympic bronze medallists Lim Joong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin of South Korea for a ticket to the final of this year's World Table Tennis Championships.