TASHKENT, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) — China defeated South Korea 3-0 to assert its fourth consecutive males’s crew title on the 2026 ITTF-ATTU Asian Championships on Thursday, whereas Japan rallied to beat China 3-2 within the girls’s crew last.
Having gained the boys’s title in 2023, 2024 and 2025, China prolonged its dominance regardless of fielding a youthful squad as a part of its preparations for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Several established stars, together with Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, had been absent from the match as China appeared to speed up its generational transition.
China reached the boys’s last with a 3-1 semifinal victory over Chinese Taipei earlier Thursday, whereas South Korea upset Japan, whose lineup featured world No. 1 Sora Matsushima and third-ranked Tomokazu Harimoto, by the identical rating.
Zhou Qihao gave China the lead within the last with a 3-1 victory over South Korean defensive specialist Kang Dong-soo earlier than Lin Shidong prolonged the benefit by sweeping Park Gyu-hyeon 3-0.
Xiang Peng then sealed the title with a 3-1 win over Park Gang-hyeon.
In the ladies’s competitors, Japan rallied from 2-1 right down to defeat China and declare the title, with Honoka Hashimoto profitable the decisive fifth match.
Both groups had superior to the ultimate with 3-0 semifinal victories, China over South Korea and Japan over Chinese Taipei.
Japan struck first as defensive specialist Hashimoto swept Chen Yi in straight video games, however Wang Yidi edged Miwa Harimoto in a five-game contest to stage the tie.
Kuai Man then defeated Hina Hayata 3-0 to place China inside one victory of the title, just for Harimoto to beat Chen in straight video games and pressure a deciding match.
Hashimoto then accomplished Japan’s comeback with a 3-1 victory over Wang.
China additionally loved a profitable day within the doubles competitions, with all six of its pairs advancing.
In the combined doubles, Huang Youzheng and Chen Yi defeated Thailand’s Thitaphat Preechayan and Kulapassr Vijitviriyagul 3-1 to achieve the quarterfinals.
Yuan Licen and Wang Yidi additionally superior to the final eight with a 3-0 victory over Yiu Kwan To and Ng Wing Lam of Hong Kong, China.
In the boys’s doubles, Lin Shidong and Huang Youzheng, together with Wen Ruibo and Yuan Licen, secured locations within the spherical of 16.
Kuai Man and Wang Yidi, and Chen Yi and Jiang Yiyi, additionally superior to the ladies’s doubles spherical of 16.
The combined doubles champions will likely be selected Friday.