BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) — China’s Kuai Man emerged because the winner within the girls’s singles occasion, whereas prime seed Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan lived as much as his billing by clinching the boys’s singles title on the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Doha on Saturday.
Chinese and Japanese paddlers break up the 5 titles of the season-opening WTT event.
Kuai lifted her first singles trophy on the WTT Star Contender stage with an 11-6, 11-3, 11-8, 11-3 win over Japan’s Miyuu Kihara.
Kuai admitted the title got here as a shock for her. “The straight-game wins in the semifinal and final have gone beyond my expectations, as I was not in fine form ahead of this tournament,” she stated. “I made full preparations, technically, tactically and mentally, and adjusted well on the court.”
On the boys’s aspect, world No. 3 Harimoto additionally notched a straight-game victory, 11-9, 13-11, 11-9, 11-6, over Jonathan Groth of Denmark to safe his title.
“I played to my level in Doha, not too good, not too bad, just to what I did in my training,” Harimoto remarked.
Also on Saturday, Japanese duo Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto got here again from one recreation down twice to defeat Huang Youzheng and Shi Xunyao of China, 6-11, 11-8, Sep 11, 11-7, 11-7, for the combined doubles crown.
The males’s and girls’s doubles titles had been selected Friday, with Chinese pair Xu Yingbin and Xiang Peng triumphing within the males’s doubles, whereas Japan’s Satsuki Odo and Sakura Yokoi bagged the ladies’s doubles title.
Attention shall be shifted to the WTT Contender Muscat, which takes place from January 11-17.