Ye Yitian won the U19 women's singles title at the 2025 WTT Junior Challenge in Bangkok, her first title this year

Ye Yitian, a 17-year-old Chinese Taipei teenager from Zhiyuan Table Tennis Hall, defeated Wu Yingxuan in straight games in the "Chinese Taipei Civil War" on the evening of the 4th Beijing time, winning the 2025 WTT Bangkok Youth Star Challenge U19 Women's Singles Championship, which is also her first international championship this year.

Ye Yitian defeated Wu Yingxuan in the U19 women's singles final to win her first title this year

World No. 98 Yitian will focus on the WTT feeder and challenge tournaments in the adult category this year, which will also be her first junior challenge of the year. She first solved the 11-year-old Japanese goddess boy Misora Matsushima 3:1 in the first round, and then cleaned up India's Bumik 3:0 in the top 8, and faced Hong Kong's new generation of hope Su Zitong in the top 4, Ye Yitian fought 5 games to get out of trouble 3:2.

Wu Yingxuan, who won the U19 women's singles championship of the Linz Youth Challenge this year, defeated teammates Peng Yuhan and Wu Jiaen in the first two rounds, and then defeated Chinese player Ding Yijie 3:2 in the top 4 to grab another ticket to the final.

Ye Yitian was full of firepower in the first game of the finals, winning 11:1 strongly, and in the second game, he also overcame 3:6 behind in the opening game, and continued to attack after 8:9, and came back from behind 11:9. Wu Yingxuan launched a counterattack in the 3rd game, once taking a 9:4 lead, Ye Yitian did not let go, chased 9 draws first, and scored with a continuous forehand under the 9:10 contrarian trend, and locked the victory at 12:10.

In the U19 men's singles event, Chinese Taipei's Xu Xianjia, who won the U17 men's singles championship at the Bangkok Youth Challenge in the last stop, defeated Chinese player Zhou Guanhong 3:1 in the top 8, but lost 0:3 to Japanese player Kazuki Yoshiyama in the top 4, and lost 6 consecutive defeats against him. Yoshiyama and Nozomi finally defeated South Korean teenager Choi Zhiyu in straight games in the final and took the championship away.

In the U15 men's doubles final, Chinese Taipei pair Zheng Minxiu/Yu Yiqing defeated Chen Kaicheng/Zheng Yuanlun 3:2 in another "Chinese Taipei Civil War" and won the championship.