Retired Zhong Xun/Shen Yubin, the "Shatou Combination" is only one step away from the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles 3 consecutive hegemony

On the 23rd local time, the 2024 Paris Olympic gold medalist, China's "Shatou Combination" Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha in the 2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships Mixed Doubles Semifinals, defeated the world's No. 2 South Korean combination Lin Zhongxun/Shin Yubin in straight games, only one step away from the three consecutive hegemony, and the final will face Japan's "Daikichi Combination" Yoshimura Maharu/Oto Satsuki.

China's "Shatou Combination" Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha

World No.8 Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha have not lost in the past five meetings with Lim Jong Hoon/Shin Yu Bin, including last year's Grand Slam final in Singapore and the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics. But it was not easy for Wang Sunpei to win today, and in the first game, he resolved one game point under a 9:10 disadvantage before he came out on top at 12:10. In the second game, Wang Sunpei lost 3 points in a row under the 6:3 lead and was tied, and at the critical moment, Wang Chuqin continued to twist and pull with his backhand and win the forehand attack, scoring 5 points in a row, and 11:6 and then the next city.

The Chinese team took a 4-1 lead at the beginning of the third game, and the South Korean team launched a counterattack after a timeout, chasing it to 8-9 after falling behind 4-9, and then resolving five final points in a desperate situation at 8-10 to overtake 14-13. At the decisive moment, Lin Zhongxun received the serve and pulled it out of bounds, Shin Yubin slapped his forehand into the air, and Wang Sunpei grabbed 3 points in a row and won 16:14.

Maharu Yoshimura / Satsuki Oto

In the other semi-final, Japan's Maharu Yoshimura/Satsuki Oto defeated world No. 3 Hong Kong's Wong Chun-ting/To Hoi Kim 11-8, 11-1, 4-11, 11-2 to reach the final for the first time. The mixed doubles duo of Yoshimura and Kasumi Ishikawa reached the final of three consecutive World Championships in 2015, 17 and 19, and also won the championship together in 2017, which is also the fourth time that Yoshimura has advanced to the mixed doubles final of the World Championships. Wong Chun Ting/To Hoi Kim won the bronze medal for the fourth time after 2015, 17 and 23.