From poor signing to receiving the silver medal in men's doubles at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Gao Chengrui: Incredible!

Chinese Taipei's "martial arts master combination" Lin Yunru/Gao Chengrui was defeated by the world's No. 5 Japanese pair Hayasuke Togami/Shinozuka Daito 2:3 in the men's doubles final of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha on the evening of the 25th.

Gao Chengrui (right) won the silver medal at the World Championships with Lin Yunru for the second time, which made him feel incredible

This is also the first World Championships medal in the 20-year-old Gao Chengrui's career, and along the way, he said: "It feels incredible!" Gao Chengrui partnered with Lin Yunru for the first time in this year's WTT Singapore Grand Slam and went all the way to the final before losing to China's "dream pair" Lin Shidong/Wang Chuqin, and coach Wang Yize said with confidence that Lin Gaopei may be the strongest men's doubles pair in the history of Chinese Taipei.

However, Lin Gaopei's luck in this year's World Championships was not good, Gao Chengrui said, "After the draw, there are two groups of Chinese teams in our half of the region, and we have to win these two groups in a row to have medals, so I didn't want to get a card at the beginning, just focused on the game." ”

Gao Chengrui believes that they played well against the two groups of Chinese combinations, "We just have the mentality of fighting each other, and there is no burden in the fight, and I feel that they are under more pressure." ”

Chinese Taipei's "Martial Arts Master Combination" Lin Yunru/Gao Chengrui received the first men's doubles silver medal in the history of Chinese Taipei

However, after defeating the world No. 1 Lebrun brothers of France 3:1 in the semifinals in the early morning of the 25th, Lin Gaopei also had some thoughts about the gold medal, after all, they defeated Hayasuke Togami/Shinozuka Daito 3:1 in the Singapore Grand Slam.

Unexpectedly, Lin Gaopei lost 2 games in a row and was reversed under the 2:1 lead in the number of games, but Wang Yize said, "In fact, it is not reversed, we are inferior in 4 and 5 games." The opponent is more daring to fight than us at the critical moment, and they all have to be able to tore it, the near-stage backhand of the household is quickly torn, and the forehand of Dadeng has a high backhand backhand back-to-stage rate, which does pose a great threat to us. ”

Gao Chengrui also believes that the Japanese pair did play well that day, and made adjustments to the part of the Singapore Grand Slam loss, "I was also a little nervous today, and I had more ideas, I was not as open as the previous games, and there were a few key balls that were not played well, but this is also a good experience, after all, I am very happy to reach the final!" ”