The first round of the women's singles qualifying tournament of the 2025 WTT Rubiana Star Challenge was upset, and Ye Yitian repelled Xu Yi

Ye Yitian, a 17-year-old teenager at the Zhiyuan Table Tennis Hall in Chinese Taipei, defeated the national table tennis player Xu Yi in straight games in the first round of the women's singles qualifying round of the 2025 WTT Rubiana Star Challenge on the evening of the 17th, and will face South Korea's Choi Hae-eun in the second round.

17-year-old Chinese Taipei Zhiyuan Table Tennis Hall teenager Ye Yitian

Ye Yitian made it all the way from qualifying to the round of 16 at the WTT Challenger Skopje last week, and this week he will continue to climb the rankings from 89th to a career-best 80. The 19-year-old Xu Yi won the U19 women's singles silver medal in the 2023 Asian Youth Championships, and is currently ranked 149 in the world.

In the second game, Ye Yitian suffered turbulence with a 7:2 lead in the opening game, and there were many unnecessary mistakes, and she was once chased to 8:8, but she stabilized after the pause, and took the lead in getting the game point at 10:9, although Xu Yi relied on the forehand line change to resolve 1 game point, but at the decisive moment, Ye Yitian continued to attack with her forehand and won the counter-pull, and then went to the next city at 12:10. Ye Yitian took advantage of the victory in the third game to chase after the victory, scored 6 points in a row after falling behind 2:3, quickly opened the score, and finally won 11:7.