The 2025 World Table Tennis Championships draw is out, and Lin Yunru is expected to stage a "fateful showdown" with Ocharov

The 2025 World Table Tennis Championships will be held in Doha, Qatar from May 17 to 25, and the full draw will be announced in advance on May 1.

Lin Yunru, who is ranked 14th in the world

World No. 14 Lin Yunru will face Croatian star Pucar and Singaporean teenager Guo Yong in the second round if he can defeat world No. 204 Leong Ji Sun in the first round. If they can make it, the round of 32 could face Ocharov, who won the men's singles bronze medal twice.

Lin Yunru only faced Ocharov in the Macau World Cup last month, when Lin Yunru, who was 1:2 behind in the fourth game, was leading at 13:12 in the fourth game, and saw that he was about to win a smash and win the ticket to the round of 16, but he was sentenced to a heavy blow due to the on-site lighting disturbance, and finally lost 3 points in a row, 1:3 hate, and his career against Ocharov also formed 6 wins and 4 losses.

Other Chinese Taipei men's players, Gao Chengrui will meet Germany's Bardet in the first round, and Liao Zhenting will face the world's No. 8 German brother Frangiska; The 16-year-old Guo Guanhong, who made his debut at the World Championships, faced the 17-year-old landlord player Colani, while Lin Yanjun met Brazil's Juti.

In women's singles, Chinese Taipei's first sister Zheng Yijing will face 22-year-old North Korean women's Park Xiujing in the first round, Park Xiujing defeated the retired South Korean star Tian Zhixi 3:2 in the women's singles round of 64 at the Asian Championships last year, and her strength should not be underestimated.

Huang Yihua faced Sweden's Carl Borg in the first round, Li Yuzhen faced Cuba's Fonseca, Huang Yuqiao met the world's No. 32 South Korean rising star Kim Na-young, and Cai Yunen faced the 18-year-old Filipino teenager Cruz.

Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing, who won the mixed doubles bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, will reunite at this year's World Championships, and will face Kazakhstan's Karchi/Romanovskaya in the round of 64.

Lin Yunru and Gao Chengrui's "martial arts master combination", the men's doubles will face Italy's Muti / Pubo in the first round, if they can pass two rounds in a row, the round of 16 may meet China's "Huang Liang Combination" Huang Youzheng / Liang Jingkun, both of whom are Lin Yunru's teammates in China's table tennis super Shandong Weiqiao.