Chinese Taipei men's doubles reached the podium of the World Table Tennis Championships again after 12 years, and Lin Yunru won his second medal

Chinese Taipei pair Lin Yunru/Gao Chengrui defeated the world's No. 7 Chinese pair Lin Shidong/Lin Gaoyuan 3:1 in the men's doubles quarterfinals of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha on the 22nd local time to advance to the top 4, winning a medal for the first time at the World Championships, and is also the third men's doubles pair of Chinese Taipei to win a medal at the World Championships, and has a chance to compete for the gold medal.

Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru/Ko Chengrui

Lin Yunru and Gao Chengrui worked together for the first time at the WTT Singapore Grand Slam earlier this year to win the runner-up, currently ranked 11th in the world, and came to the World Championships stage tacit understanding is getting better, the round of 16 first went through 5 games to defeat the Chinese pair Huang Youzheng/Liang Jingkun 3:2, and accepted the ticket to the top 8.

Lin Yunru / Gao Chengrui yesterday faced the first three rounds of a game did not lose the Chinese "Shuanglin combination", the opening momentum was good to 11:5 first city, the second game after a fierce battle and then 11:9 to take the lead in the draw advantage, the third game faced the opponent counterattack to 5:11 conceded, but the 4th game quickly regrouped, after the 6:5 pause many times forced the opponent to make mistakes, successfully closed the door 11:8, and took 38 minutes to qualify.

With the World Table Tennis Championships not playing a bronze medal match, Lin Yunru/Gao Chengrui are determined to retain their bronze medals, and there is still a chance to improve their medal quality in the next four against the French top seeds the Lebrun brothers and the Swedish pair of Falke/Carlsen.

Jiang Penglong/Zhang Yanshu won bronze medals at the World Championships in 2001 and 2007, while Zhuang Zhiyuan/Chen Jian'an won the first men's doubles gold medal in the team's history for Chinese Taipei in 2013. In addition, Lin Yunru once again fought side by side with Chinese Taipei's first sister Zheng Yijing at this year's World Championships, and lost to the world No. 2 South Korean pair Lin Zhongxun/Shin Yubin 2:3 on the 22nd, stopping in the top 8 of mixed doubles.