On the evening of September 12, Beijing time, the 2025 WTT Macau Championship continued. In the last men's singles 1/8 final, world champion Hugo defeated German star Qiu Dang 3-1 and advanced, and caught the last train of the quarterfinals. In another men's singles competition that ended earlier, 16-to-8. Although the national table tennis straight board star Xue Fei saved three match points in a row in the third game, he still couldn't escape the fate of being swept, losing 0-3 to South Korean star Zhang Yuzhen. As Zhang Yuzhen and Hugo advanced one after another, the top 8 men's singles were all born!
Brazil's famous player Hugo won the World Cup men's singles championship this year, breaking the monopoly of Asian and European players in the singles championships of the three major competitions, and setting a number of world table tennis records.
In this Macau Championship, Hugo, ranked fourth in the world, was also listed as the No. 4 seed of men's singles, and was divided into the 2/4th zone of the lottery. He defeated South Korean star Ahn Jae-hyun 3-0 with a big score in the first round. In this round, he encountered German direct board star Qiu Dang.
In the first game, the score difference between the two sides was large, and Hugo easily won 11-3. In the second game, Hugo grasped the key points and won another game 12-10. In the third game, Qiu Dang won a goal 11-9. In the fourth game, Hugo responded 11-9 and locked the victory of the game 3-1 with a big score.
Early in the evening, another men's singles 1/8 final was between the national table tennis straight board star Xue Fei and the Korean strongman Zhang Yuzhen. Xue Fei, who replaced Ocharov, participated in the competition, broke out in the last round and eliminated the third son of the world Ben Zhihe, while Zhang Yuzhen defeated Swedish player Anton Karlberg in the first round of men's singles.
In this game, Xue Fei made many mistakes, lost 5 points in the middle of the first game, and lost one game 7-11 first. In the second game, Xue Fei narrowed the gap to one point in a passive situation, but Zhang Yuzhen withstood the pressure at the critical moment and won again with the same score 11-7. In the third game, Xue Fei was behind 7-10 and saved three match points in a row, but he still couldn't escape the fate of being swept. Zhang Yuzhen scored two key points in a row and ended the game 12-10.
In the three men's singles 1/8 finals that ended on the last match day, Lin Yunru, Wang Chuqin and Du Da advanced first. On this match day, Francesca, Anders Linde and Lin Shidong defeated their opponents in the afternoon to enter the semi-finals. In addition, Zhang Yuzhen and Hugo who advanced in the evening, all the men's singles quarter-finals of this Macau Championship were born, and the next quarter-finals were complete matches: Lin Shidong vs Anders Linde, Hugo vs Francesca, Duda vs Zhang Yuzhen, Lin Yunru vs Wang Chuqin.
