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WTT Star Contender Doha 2022 poster
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FinishedWTT Series

WTT Star Contender Doha 2022

25 to 31 March 2022Doha, Qatar

Champions

Women's singles champion

Miyuu Kihara

Beat Han Ying 4-3 in the final8-11, 12-10, 9-11, 3-11, 11-7, 11-3, 11-1

Men's singles champion

Andrej Gacina

Beat Lim Jonghoon 4-2 in the final6-11, 8-11, 12-10, 11-7, 11-9, 11-9

Women's doubles champions

Miyuu Kihara / Miyu Nagasaki

Beat Li Yu-Jhun / Cheng I-Ching 3-0 in the final13-11, 11-5, 11-6

Men's doubles champions

Dang Qiu / Benedikt Duda

Beat Liao Cheng-Ting / Lin Yun-Ju 3-2 in the final11-7, 6-11, 11-6, 3-11, 11-4

Mixed doubles champions

Jia Nan Yuan / Emmanuel Lebesson

Beat Cheng I-Ching / Lin Yun-Ju 3-0 in the final11-8, 14-12, 12-10

How it was won

Two unseeded players won the singles titles, both from behind. Croatia's Andrej Gacina lost the first two games of the men's final to South Korea's Lim Jonghoon and won 4-2. Japan's Miyuu Kihara trailed Germany's Han Ying 3-1 in the women's final and won the last three games 11-7, 11-3, 11-1.

Kihara had beaten the second seed, Adriana Diaz, 3-0 in the last 32, and she also won the women's doubles with Miyu Nagasaki. Gacina won two of his first three matches 3-2, one of them against Truls Moregard. Germany's Dang Qiu and Benedikt Duda won the men's doubles, and France's Jia Nan Yuan and Emmanuel Lebesson beat the top seeds, Cheng I-Ching and Lin Yun-Ju, 3-0 in the mixed.

Matches

  1. Women's singles, semi-finalHan YingMiyu Kato 421012911114112115114
  2. Women's singles, semi-finalChen Szu-YuMiyuu Kihara 041012711511911
  3. Men's singles, semi-finalKristian KarlssonAndrej Gacina 041012011011011
  4. Men's singles, semi-finalQuadri ArunaLim Jonghoon 2411811139111111210511
  5. Mixed doubles, finalCheng I-Ching / Lin Yun-JuJia Nan Yuan / Emmanuel Lebesson 0381112141012
  6. Women's singles, finalHan YingMiyuu Kihara 341181012119113711311111
  7. Men's singles, finalAndrej GacinaLim Jonghoon 426118111210117119119

Times are UK time. Times are approximate: matches can start late or run over, so a match may not have started when its time passes. Tap a played match for point by point. Order of play and results from World Table Tennis.

The draw

Seeds shown in grey. Times are UK time. Times are approximate. Scroll sideways to follow each round.

Last 64

1Doo Hoi KemHKG
ByeBYE
Soo Wai Yam MinnieHKG0
Joo CheonhuiKOR3
Kim HayeongKOR3
Mo ZhangCAN0
ByeBYE
Bruna TakahashiBRA
Xiaona ShanGER
ByeBYE
Manika BatraIND3
Qian TianyiCHN2
Dina MeshrefEGY0
Miwa HarimotoJPN3
ByeBYE
6Han YingGER
3Jeon JiheeKOR
ByeBYE
Sakura MoriJPN3
Adina DiaconuROU1
Britt EerlandNED3
Ganna GaponovaUKR2
ByeBYE
Elizabeta SamaraROU
Nina MittelhamGER
ByeBYE
Fan SiqiCHN2
Miyu KatoJPN3
Lily ZhangUSA1
Tetyana BilenkoUKR3
ByeBYE
5Sofia PolcanovaAUT
7Petrissa SoljaGER
ByeBYE
Zhang RuiCHN3
Jieni ShaoPOR1
Margaryta PesotskaUKR0
Lee Ho ChingHKG3
ByeBYE
Suthasini SawettabutTHA
Chen Szu-YuTPE
ByeBYE
Miyu NagasakiJPN3
Liu WeishanCHN2
Dora MadaraszHUN1
Linda BergstromSWE3
ByeBYE
4Cheng I-ChingTPE
8Xiaoxin YangMON
ByeBYE
Qi FeiCHN3
Sabine WinterGER1
Choi HyojooKOR3
Georgina PotaHUN2
ByeBYE
Bernadette SzőcsROU
Hana MatelovaCZE
ByeBYE
Ye LinSGP2
Barbora BalazovaSVK3
Fu YuPOR1
Miyuu KiharaJPN3
ByeBYE
2Adriana DiazPUR

Last 32

1Doo Hoi KemHKG1
Joo CheonhuiKOR3
Kim HayeongKOR1
Bruna TakahashiBRA3
Xiaona ShanGER1
Manika BatraIND3
Miwa HarimotoJPN1
6Han YingGER3
3Jeon JiheeKOR3
Sakura MoriJPN2
Britt EerlandNED0
Elizabeta SamaraROU3
Nina MittelhamGER1
Miyu KatoJPN3
Tetyana BilenkoUKR1
5Sofia PolcanovaAUT3
7Petrissa SoljaGER1
Zhang RuiCHN3
Lee Ho ChingHKG3
Suthasini SawettabutTHA1
Chen Szu-YuTPE3
Miyu NagasakiJPN2
Linda BergstromSWE3
4Cheng I-ChingTPE2
8Xiaoxin YangMON3
Qi FeiCHN0
Choi HyojooKOR2
Bernadette SzőcsROU3
Hana MatelovaCZE2
Barbora BalazovaSVK3
Miyuu KiharaJPN3
2Adriana DiazPUR0

Last 16

Joo CheonhuiKOR3
Bruna TakahashiBRA1
Manika BatraIND0
6Han YingGER3
3Jeon JiheeKOR3
Elizabeta SamaraROU2
Miyu KatoJPN3
5Sofia PolcanovaAUT1
Zhang RuiCHN3
Lee Ho ChingHKG1
Chen Szu-YuTPE3
Linda BergstromSWE0
8Xiaoxin YangMON3
Bernadette SzőcsROU0
Barbora BalazovaSVK0
Miyuu KiharaJPN3

Quarter-finals

Joo CheonhuiKOR0
6Han YingGER3
3Jeon JiheeKOR1
Miyu KatoJPN3
Zhang RuiCHN1
Chen Szu-YuTPE3
8Xiaoxin YangMON1
Miyuu KiharaJPN3

Semi-finals

6Han YingGER4
Miyu KatoJPN2
Chen Szu-YuTPE0
Miyuu KiharaJPN4

Final

6Han YingGER3
Miyuu KiharaJPN4

Official draw from World Table Tennis, updated 10 November, 15:09.