2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships: The national table tennis wants to defend the dream of the last 5 championships is shattered, and the women's singles China and Japan meet

Men's doubles seedlings Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong lost in the men's doubles quarterfinals of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha on the 22nd local time, which means that the dream of national table tennis to defend the 5 crowns of the last World Table Tennis Championships in Durban has been shattered.

Lin Gaoyuan (left) and Lin Shidong lost in the quarterfinals of the men's doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships in Doha on Thursday, preventing China from repeating the history of the last edition of the tournament with five titles.

No.3 seeds Lin Gaoyuan and Lin Shidong lost to Chinese Taipei's No.6 seeds Gao Chengrui and Lin Yunru 5-11, 9-11, 11-5, 8-11 in the men's doubles quarterfinals, leaving China out of the men's doubles tournament for the first time in nearly 50 years and losing the chance to defend their title.

In the other two doubles tournaments, China still have one team left to continue to push for the top, and in the Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Wang Manyu and Kuaiman, who won the WTT Singapore Grand Slam this year, met the exotic pair of Romania's Tijakozhu and Spain's Xiao Yaoqian. South Korea's No.7 seeds Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na defeated Japan's No.1 seeds Satsuki Oto and Sakura Yokoi 3-1 to reach the Women's Doubles semi-finals.

The "Shatou" combination reached the semi-finals of mixed doubles. In the Mixed Doubles quarter-finals, China's No.2 seeds and defending champions Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha edged out Japan's No.5 seeds Teruku Matsushima and Miwa Zhang in four games 6-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-9 to advance to the semi-finals, where they will face South Korea's No.4 seeds Lim Joong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin for a place in the final.

Wang Chuqin faced Chinese Taipei's No. 13 seed Lin Yunru in the quarterfinals

The other Mixed Doubles semi-final was played by Hong Kong's No.3 seeds Wong Chun-ting and To Hoi-king against Japan's No.16 seeds Maharu Yoshimura and Satsuki Oto. After the No. 16 seed Japanese veteran Yoshimura and up-and-coming Satsuki Oto knocked out China's No. 1 seeds Lin Shidong and Kuaiman 3-1 in the Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, the 31-year-old Yoshimura burst into tears and couldn't believe that he could make it to the World Table Tennis Championships podium again after six years. "In 2019, Kasumi Ishikawa and I won a medal in the mixed doubles event, but I didn't expect to win a medal after I was 30," Yoshimura said. ”

The pair, who were paired in October last year, have had a mediocre record in the past few months, but their performances at the World Table Tennis Championships have been like dark horses, beating the Paris Olympic silver pair and the world No. 1 mixed doubles.

In the men's singles round of 16, China have three players in action, with No.5 seed Liang Jingkun beating England's Galvez 4-2 and team-mate Lin Shidong, who faces Sweden's No.15 seed Carlberg in the round of 16. China's No.2 seed Wang Chuqin defeated France's No.13 seed Lin Yunru 4-2 in the other Men's Singles round of 16 match to face Chinese Taipei's No.13 seed Lin Yunru in the quarterfinals.

The first sister of Japanese table tennis, Miwa Zhangmoto

In the Women's Singles round of 16, China had a total of four players, including No. 2 seed Wang Manyu, No. 3 seed Chen Xingtong and No. 4 seed Wang Yidi to win the first to enter the quarterfinals, and the defending women's singles champion Sun Yingsha then defeated South Korea's No. 9 seed Shin Yubin to also enter the top eight.

Wang Manyu beat Romania's 11th seed Szoch 4-0 in the Women's Singles round of 16, Chen Xingtong beat Brazil's 13th seed Bruna Takahashi 4-1, and Wang Yidi beat France's Bavide 4-0.

For Japan, No.5 seed Miwa Zhangmoto, No.6 seed Hina Hayada and No.7 seed Satsuki Oto advanced to the Women's Singles quarterfinals, while No.8 seed Misei Ito caught the Women's Singles quarterfinals after beating Chinese Taipei's No.10 seed Zheng Yijing. As a result, China and Japan each occupy half of the top 8 women's singles at this World Table Tennis Championships, and four Sino-Japanese women's singles matches will be staged next.