Table Tennis" Montpellier Championship starts on Tuesday! Lin Yunru fights against Portuguese players, Zheng Yijing confronts Shin Yubin

The 2026 WTT Montpellier (France) Championship will be held on October 27 (next Tuesday). The draw ceremony will be held tonight. The "Silent Assassin" Lin Yunru, who just won the Chinese Grand Slam men's singles runner-up two weeks ago, will face Portuguese left-hand Gerardo in the first round; Taiwan's first sister Zheng Yijing will face South Korea's first sister Shin Yubin.

Lin Yunru, who won the men's singles championship at the Duha Championship in January this year, is ranked fifth seed in this tournament. In the first round, he will face Gerardou, who is ranked 34th in the world. The two met in the 2024 Macau World Cup group stage. Xiao Lin won 3:1 at that time. If Lin Yunru can successfully pass the first hurdle, the top 16 will meet the winner of South Korea's first brother Zhang Yuzhen and France's "Little Cotton" Coton.

In women's singles, Zheng Yijing, who is ranked 30 in the world, has only lost one of the four times she has played against Shin Yu-bin, who is ranked 12 in the world. She has won the last three duels, including last year's London Star Challenge. She has the upper hand in the match. If she can win again, the top 16 will be against the winner of former world queen Sun Yingsha and landlord wild card player C. Lutz.

The 18-year-old Cathay Pacific player Peng Yuhan, who made his debut in the championship series, was drawn in the first round by the Chinese star Chen Yi, ranked 10th in the world. The two met in the first round of the China Grand Slam in early October, when Peng Yuhan lost 1:3. The 22-year-old Chen Yi defeated the world's third-ranked Japanese sister Miwa Harimoto in straight games in the women's singles final of the Asian Table Tennis Championship tonight. She stopped her 4-game losing streak and won the Asian Championship women's singles championship for the first time. Her recent performance is excellent.