After the 2025 WTT US Grand Slam controversy, Ye Yitian made her debut in the women's singles round of 16

Ye Yitian, a teenager from Zhiyuan Table Tennis Hall who had just experienced the disqualification of the WTT US Grand Slam by the Chinese Taipei Table Tennis Association, defeated Peng Yuhan, ranked 305th in the world, 3:1 in the "Chinese Taipei Civil War" in the women's single round of the 2025 WTT Pristina (Kosovo) Regional Tournament on the evening of the 5th and advanced to the round of 16.

Ye Yitian repelled Peng Yuhan and entered the top 16 of women's singles

Ye Yitian, ranked 91st in the world, and Peng Yuhan, who is the same age, have played each other twice in international competitions, and Ye Yitian won in straight games at the 2022 Skopje Junior Challenge; Peng Yuhan overcame a 0:2 deficit in the U17 women's singles final of the Puerto Princeser Youth Challenge in the Philippines last year and completed a big reversal with 3:2.

This time in the first round of the adult competition, Ye Yitian made a strong start of 5:0 in the first game, although he was once chased to 7 draws, and finally won the first place with a wave of 4:1 offensive and 11:8. In the second game, Ye Yitian struggled to 9 draws, grasped his two serves, and won a backhand attack in a row, and then went to the next city at 11:9.

Peng Yuhan, who played with backhand granules, launched a counterattack in the third game, and after starting 6:1, he quickly pulled back a city with 11:6. In the crucial 4th game, Ye Yitian showed a strong backhand offensive ability under 8:10 adversity, and after resolving 3 game points in a row, he came from behind 13:11. Ye Yitian will meet France's Zarif in the round of 16, and the world No. 148 Zariff will make a 2-3 reversal in the round of 32 to defeat Japan's Sakura Aoi.

Another 17-year-old Chinese Taipei teenager Wu Jiaen, first defeated the 16-year-old South Korean rising star Liu Ei Yan 3:1 in the first round, and then cleaned up the Romanian female player Singh Ozan in three straight games in the second round, and will face the Japanese female player Kimura Kasumi ranked 236 in the world in the round of 16. Chinese Taipei's Huang Yutai, ranked 157th in the world, met the world's No. 29 Japanese top seed Sakura Yokoi in the round of 32, chasing 2 games in a row after falling behind 0:2 in the game, and in the decisive game in a desperate situation of 5:10, she saved 5 points in a row, but unfortunately still fell short at 10:12 and missed the round of 16.