
Staking claim, Chinese duo books penultimate round places
Candidates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and beyond, China’s Gu Yuting and Wang Manyu duly booked their places in the penultimate round of the Women’s Singles event at the Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour Qatar Open in Doha. They emerged successful on the afternoon of Saturday 25th February in the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena. Neither seeded, neither the owner of a current World ranking, Gu Yuting beat Singapore’s Feng Tianwei, the no.3 seed, in straight games (11-8, 11-6,