Lin Yunru/Gao Chengrui became the second pair in history to reach the men's doubles final of the World Table Tennis Championships

Chinese Taipei's "martial arts master combination" Lin Yunru / Gao Chengrui on the 24th local time in the 2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles semifinals, 3:1 to defeat the world's No. 1 French "glasses brothers" A. Lebrun / F. Lebrun is also the second pair in history to enter the World Championships men's doubles final after Zhuang Zhiyuan / Chen Jian'an in 2013 Chinese Taipei pair, Beijing time at 5 pm on the 25th Beijing time and the Japanese combination Hayasuke Togami / Shinozuka Daito compete for the championship.

Lin Yunru (left) and Gao Chengrui defeated the French Lebrun brothers in the men's doubles quarterfinals and advanced to the final for the first time

World No. 11 Lin Yunru / Gao Chengrui, the first two rounds of successive knockdown of two groups of Chinese pair Liang Jingkun / Huang Youzheng and Lin Shidong / Lin Gaoyuan, the championship market is bullish, the top 4 against the WTT year-end men's doubles champion Lebrun brothers, the first game in the opening 4:1 lead, although once chased to 8 draws, but at the critical moment, Gao Chengrui played the killer, consecutive forehand and backhand snatches to win 3 points, 11:8 first.

In the second game, Lin Gaopei played a wave of 7:1 counterattack after falling behind 1:4 in the opening game, 8:5 overtake, the Lebrun brothers then chased 2 points in a row, and the Chinese Taipei combination also decisively shouted a timeout, and after returning to the game, it was Lin Yunru's turn to perform, continuous forehand strong attack, backhand backhand, Lin Gaopei scored 3 points in a row, 11:7 and the next city.

In the 3rd game, the climax of the battle was repeated, Lin Gaopei launched a counterattack after falling behind 1:5 and 4:9 in the opening game, and scored 5 points in a row to chase 9 draws, but at the decisive moment, Lin Yunru pulled the ball out of bounds with his forehand, and then Lin and Gao were stuck in the run, revealing a large gap in the forehand position, and were pierced by the forehand of the glasses brother, and 9:11 gave up. In the key 4th game, Lin Gaopei encountered turbulence with a 5:3 lead in the opening game, and was attacked by the French brothers with a wave of 6:1, falling behind 6:9, but then the two showed resilience and scored 4 points in a row to win consecutive attacks, and forced out the end of the game 10:9.

Then Gao Chengrui served out, and Brother Glasses received the serve and directly grabbed the forehand to chase 10 draws. At the decisive moment, Brother Glasses pulled the ball out of bounds with his forehand, and Lin Yunru played a wonderful forehand backpull straight line to lock the victory at 12:10.

In the other men's doubles semi-finals, the world No. 4 French pair Brazzavelde/Dole, after defeating the multinational pair of Romania's O. Ionescu and Spain's Robles 3:2 in the quarterfinals, was too emotional to kneel and skate in celebration, resulting in Dole's knee meniscus injury and ligament strain, and was forced to withdraw from the semi-finals.