Guo Guanhong won a wave of 3 consecutive victories and entered the top 32 of the men's singles at the 2025 WTT Skop Challenger

In the early morning of the 12th, Beijing time, 16-year-old Chinese Taipei table tennis player Guo Guanhong defeated the Belgian star Davos, who won the C9 men's singles gold medal at the Paralympic Games three times, in the final round of the men's singles qualification round of the 2025 WTT Skopje (North Macedonia) Challenger and entered the round of 32.

16-year-old Guo Guanhong won 3 matches in a row and advanced to the top 32 of the men's singles main draw

Guo Guanhong, ranked 75th in the world, overcame 1:2 in the first game of the group stage and reversed Sun Yang, a Chinese chipping rookie who won the World Youth U15 men's singles championship in 2023, 3:2. In the past, Guo Guanhong lost to Sun Yang twice in the junior competition, and this time he finally won the first victory against the match, and his testimonial was only one short word "cool".

Guo Guanhong beat Serbia's Levajac 3:0 in the second game of the group and advanced to the knockout round with the first place in the group. The 24-year-old was born with a slight paralysis of one limb due to lack of oxygen, but he was still competitive on the court, and this time he also defeated 16-year-old Li Hechen, who won the Asian Youth U15 men's singles championship last year, 3:2 in the group stage.

17-year-old Ye Yitian repelled Huang Yutian and advanced to the top 32 of women's singles against the trend

Facing Davos, who also held the same left-handed shot, Guo Guanhong played easily in the first two games, falling behind 9:10 and 8:9 successively, but fortunately the key points were firmly grasped, and he won two cities in a row with 14:12 and 11:9, and only got rid of the opponent's entanglement in the third game and won it quickly with 11:3.

In women's singles, Chinese Taipei's Ye Yitian, ranked 89th in the world, lost 2:3 to Japan's Reina Aso in the first match of the group stage, but defeated South Korea's Choi Na Hyun in straight games in the second game and advanced to the knockout round with the second group.

Ye Yitian faced Huang Yutai, who is ranked 151 in the world, in the knockout round, and the two faced each other in the 2022 Podrica Youth Challenge, when Ye Yitian won 3:1, this time the "Chinese Taipei Civil War" was staged again, Ye Yitian still narrowly won 11:9, 11:8, 10:12, 11:9, and took the top 32 train.

The 19-year-old Zheng Puxuan defeated China's 16-year-old Feng Yixuan 3:1 in the group stage, and then defeated Deng Zhen of the United States 3:0 in the second game to win the first place in the group. However, in the knockout round, he faced the 16-year-old Japanese teenager Koshio Yuna, who is ranked 110 in the world, and lost 8:11, 3:11, 6:11, ending the two-game winning streak and missing the main event.