Marcos Freitas on the main table of the Qatar Open for table tennis

The 26th player in the world ranking entered the competition with a 4-0 victory against Senegalese Ibrahima Diaw, 75, before removing the German Benedikt Duda, 36, by 4-2.

Thus, the midfielder will face the Chinese Wang Chuqin, 17th world player on Thursday, in the 16th round, after a day when the two female representatives were eliminated.

Jieni Shao, 64th in the ‘ranking’, started by eliminating the Belgian Nathalie Marchetti, 151, by 4-0, but lost, in the round of access to the mainframe, before the Japanese Honoka Hashimoto, 42, by 4-0.

Fu Yu fell in the debut game, with the 48th world player eliminated by the 72nd in the ‘ranking’, by 4-2.