An aggressive An Jaehyun avenged his 2019 World Championship semi-final loss to Mattias Falck with a comfortable 3-0 (11-8, 11-9, 11-7) victory in the round of 32 in WTT Star Contender at WTT Doha.
Read moreWe take a look at which players and early round match-ups to keep an eye on at WTT Star Contender following the results of the WTT Contender event.
Read moreAfter blowing four match points while up 2-0, Lin regrouped and closed out game 4 to win his quarter-final match-up against Quadri Aruna 11-8,11-9, 15-17, 11-9 en route to the WTT Contender finals.
Read more“Your eyes are so bad,” remarked Andreas Levenko (WR 144) to the umpire after losing 11-6, 13-11, 9-11, 4-11, 11-8 to Cho Daesong (WR 141) in reference to perceived lopsidedness over the umpire’s service fault calls.
Read moreWTT Doha has wrapped up day two of action in the men’s and women’s singles event. We summarize the results and highlight matches to watch in Day 3.
Read moreAfter dropping the first game 11-9, Hugo Calderano (WR 6) won the next three games in a row against An Jaehyun (WR 39) with dominant finishes in each game.
Read moreNot the post you were looking for? A guide to all of Edges and Nets’ coverage of WTT Doha (also known as WTT Middle East Hub and formerly known as ITTF Qatar Open) can be found here. A brief recap of all Day 1 action and Day 2 preview can be found here. In the biggest upset of the men’s singles event so far, […]
Read moreWTT Doha has wrapped up day one of action in the men’s and women’s singles event. We saw top seeds fall or come close to falling in both events.
Read moreFinland’s Benedek Olah (WR 85) upset Taiwan’s Chen Chien-An’s (WR 69) with a score of 8-11, 12-10, 11-9, 11-8 to advance to the third round of the qualifying draw at WTT Doha.
Read moreWe take a look at seeds five through eight in the men’s singles event (Jeoung Youngsik, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Jang Woojin, and Mattias Falck) at WTT Doha, how they’ve played since the ITTF restart after the pandemic, what is at stake for them at Qatar, and their potential quarterfinal match-ups.
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