WTT Bangkok Youth Challenge: Taiwanese teenager won 3 crowns and 5 runner-ups
Wu Yuankai, Yan Peien and Zheng Weijun won the singles championships in each group
Quick Look
- The second leg of the 2026 WTT Bangkok Youth Challenge came to an end.
- The Taiwanese team performed brilliantly, winning a total of 3 championships and 5 runner-ups.
- Wu Yuankai and Yan Pei'en dominated the U13 boys' and girls' singles respectively, while Zheng Weijun won the U11 boys' singles championship, demonstrating the strength of Taiwan's youth table tennis.
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Why It Matters
The WTT Youth Challenge is a youth event organized by the International Table Tennis Federation, aiming to cultivate young players.
The second leg of the 2026 WTT Bangkok Youth Challenge ended today. The Taiwanese team won 3 championships and 5 runner-ups in singles events. Among them, Wu Yuankai and Yan Peien won the U13 male and female singles championships respectively, while Zheng Weijun won the U11 male singles championship.
Wu Yuan-kai, who is currently ranked third in the U13 world rankings, passed all the way. He and Tsang Yu-an, who won this year's Hong Kong Youth Challenge U13 men's singles championship, staged the "Taiwan Civil War" in the final. Wu Yuan-kai overcame a 1:2 deficit in the game and caught up in 2 consecutive games to come back and win his third WTT singles championship this year.
In the U13 women's singles final, Heku teenager Yan Pei'en faced the 9-year-old Japanese prodigy Kawaguchi Asahi. In the second game, he switched to a squatting serve to effectively disrupt the opponent's rhythm. In the end, he reversed the situation with 7:11, 11:8, 11:9, 11:6. Following the second leg of the San Francisco Youth Challenge in June, he won the championship for the second time this year.
Zheng Weijun from Nancheng Elementary School in Kaohsiung City defeated the landlord Suita 3:1 in the U11 men's singles final and won his first international championship in his career.
In the U11 women's singles competition, Hsinchu Hulin Junior High School Yang Qiaoyu defeated her sister Yang Minxin 3:2 in the semi-finals, but lost 1:3 to Thailand's Surasi Surasi in the final, finishing second again after last month's Vientiane station.
In the finale of the U15 men's singles, first-place silver player Fang Bingwei defeated two Japanese players, Kobayashi Toshiharu and Nakamoto Fengxiang, from the top 8, but lost to Thailand's grainy player Noita 1:3 in the final; Liu Peihua from Zhiyuan Table Tennis Hall also defeated Indian teenager Chakraborty and South Korea's Yoon Seo-hye, but lost 0:3 in the final to Malaysian rising star Dania, who played with backhand grains, and ended up as runner-up.
