MUSCAT, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — Chinese teenager Chen Yuanyu shocked world No. 3 Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan 4-2 to seize the lads’s singles title, whereas Shi Xunyao emerged because the winner in an all-Chinese girls’s singles ultimate over Kuai Man in straight video games on the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Muscat on Friday.
Chen, at the moment sitting 51 positions beneath Harimoto on the world rankings, fell 8-11 within the opening sport, whereas successful 11-7, 11-7 within the subsequent two video games to show the tables.
Although the highest seed Harimoto leveled the match with 11-3 within the fourth sport, the 19-year-old Chinese held on to triumph 11-4, 12-10 to notch one of many largest victories in his profession.
Facing Kuai, winner of final week’s WTT Star Contender Doha, Shi took command with an 11-6, 11-9, 11-8, 11-4 victory.
Also on Friday, Japanese paddlers claimed each titles in doubles occasions, with Tomokazu Harimoto and Sora Matsushima approaching high within the males’s doubles, whereas Satsuki Odo and Sakura Yokoi have been topped the ladies’s doubles champions.
In Thursday’s blended doubles ultimate, second seeds Alvaro Robles and Maria Xiao of Spain dispatched Chinese qualifiers Huang Youzheng and Shi Xunyao 3-1.
The subsequent WTT Series occasion would be the Singapore Smash from January 30 to February 9.