The fifth seed Chinese Taipei player Zhan Haoqing/Russian Kudermetova defeated the wild card dark horse American Stearns/Brazilian Stephanie in straight sets on the 12th Beijing time, and advanced to the top 8 of the 2025 Doha Women's Open doubles with two consecutive wins, but Kudermetova then withdrew for some reason, and the "Chinese Taipei Civil War" two-part series was sure to break the game, and Zhan Haoqing also wished teammate Wu Fangxian to advance to the top 4 of the tournament.

Zhan Haoqing (left) withdrew from the match due to her partner Kudermetova and wished Wu Fangxian to advance to the semi-finals of Doha Women's Doubles

In this WTA 1,000-level tournament held in the capital of Qatar, all 3 players will be in the same district in the lower half of the draw. Wu Fangxian/Chinese player Jiang Xinyu was a big upset in the second round, after grabbing ten to retreat from the second seed Xie Shuwei/Latvian Ostapenko, and reached the top 8 in a row, and was originally going to meet Zhan Haoqing/Kudermetova who reorganized this season, but Zhan Haoqing revealed after the game, "Because of the partner, I must abstain in the next round, and I wish Fangxian can successfully advance in the next event." She and Kudermetova will continue to work hard next week in Dubai, where they will also play in the 1,000-point tournament.

Zhan Haoqing and Wu Fangxian once worked together to win the 2023 Hua Hin Women's Tennis Doubles Championship in Thailand, and last year the two met twice across the net and won one win each.