The Hong Kong, China team sent 5 men and 6 women to the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, and Huang Dupei is expected to win a medal for the fourth time

The 2025 World Table Tennis Championships will be held in Doha, Qatar from 17 to 25 May, and the Hong Kong, China team (hereinafter referred to as the Hong Kong team) will send five men and six women to compete in five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. Among them, the mixed doubles pair of Wong Chun Ting and Du Hoi Kin is expected to win a medal for the fourth time.

The Hong Kong team sent a total of 5 male and 6 female athletes to participate in this World Championships

In the past five World Championships (excluding teams), the Hong Kong team has only won bronze three times in the mixed doubles, and the three times were by Wong Chun-ting and To Hoi-king.

Li Jing, the head coach of the Hong Kong team, believes that Huang Dupei has been working together for many years, and his playing style has been studied clearly than his opponent, so it is difficult to win a medal, "Even if you can't win, you can eat your opponent." ”

Du Kaiqin, who is injured, does not have to take care of women's doubles this year, so that she can focus on competing for cards in mixed doubles; The early draw for this World Championships, Huang Du is the third seed, avoiding the two Chinese pairs, the signing calculation is good, Huang Zhenting said: "We are confident that we can face the difficulties and win the medal for the fourth time, it is best to change the color." ”

Huang Dupei has won three bronze medals in mixed doubles at the World Championships

Huang will start in the round of 64 and face world No. 150 Singapore in the first round, and if they make it to the round of 16, they may meet North Korea's Xian Youcheng/Bien Songjing, who defeated Huang Du Pei 3-0 in the quarterfinals of last year's Asian Championships, and are expected to be their first difficulty in the medal contention.

"They play like an AI and always get your next board." Du Kaiqin said. She is glad that at least last year's film analysed her opponents, and she was more prepared than ever, "They didn't have a lot of skills or advanced play, but they were solid, and we made a lot of unnecessary mistakes. We have tactics to deal with it, but we can't reveal it right now, although even if they did, they probably wouldn't know. ”

Du Hoi-king only needs to play in women's singles and mixed doubles this year

The two won the bronze medal at the World Championships for the first time in 2015, and it has been exactly 10 years since they cooperated. ”

In the top 4 of the Paris Olympics last year, Huang Dupei also lost to the North Korean combination, and finally was only one step away from the medal, leaving regrets, Du Kaiqin pointed out that there was no negative impact on the two, "In fact, to get to that point, it has been considered a good performance, and it is a result." Huang Zhenting said that he will continue to release himself, seek change, and play well on the field.