The 17-year-old Chinese Taipei Zhiyuan Table Tennis Stadium female player Ye Yitian,13 broke through two consecutive hurdles in the 2025 WTT Düsseldorf Regional Tournament in Germany to advance to the women's singles round of 16, and she is also the only remaining Chinese Taipei singles player.
Ye Yitian defeated the German player Wan Yuan in a reversal and advanced to the top 16 of the women's singles
Ye Yitian, ranked 113 in the world, first defeated 19-year-old Polish teenager Buzska 3:1 in the first round. Facing the world's No. 75 German women's player Wan Yuan in the round of 32, Ye Yitian fell behind 11:9, 5:11, and 9:11 in the first three games, but she showed resilience and first equalized the game with 11:7, and in the deciding game under 4:8, 8:10 adversity, she resolved two final points and came back to 13:11. Ye Yitian will face the Croatian women's Pavlovic who is ranked 316 in the world in the round of 16.
Huang Yihua, another Chinese Taipei player who is ranked second in the women's singles, first prospered and then declined in the round of 32, losing 1:3 to 18-year-old Wales teenager Hulsi; Cai Yunen, who advanced from the qualifying round, defeated Japan's Akae Natsuhoi in straight games in the first round, but lost 0:3 to 44-year-old Croatian veteran Maro Barbiki in the round of 32 and failed to go further.
In the men's singles of Chinese Taipei, Feng Yixin, ranked 54 in the world, lost 3 games in a row and was reversed by the British player Jarvis, who is ranked 163 in the world, with a 2:0 lead in the number of games; Zhang Youan, who just won the U19 men's singles championship of the Singapore Junior Grand Slam, also lost 1:3 to China's Niu Guankai and stopped in the round of 32.
Lin Yanjun, ranked 437 in the world, won two consecutive matches in the qualifying round, and then beat Germany's Messner 3:0 in the round of 32, but met the top seed of the tournament Chen Yuanyu, who is ranked 26th in the world, and lost 0:3 in the round of 32.
In Men's Doubles, Zhang Youan/Lin Yanjun defeated the German pair in straight games in the first round, and will face second seeds Xue Fei/Huang Youzheng of China in the quarterfinals.