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On May 5, Beijing time, the 2024 Tang You Cup ushered in the final championship battle, in yesterday's Tang You Cup semifinals, the national feather women's team swept the Japanese women's team 3-0, which is also the 20th time that the Chinese team has reached the final of the You Cup, and the national feather women's team strives to win the cup for the 16th time. The national feather men's team defeated the Malaysian men's team 3-1, which is the 14th time that the Chinese team has reached the soup cup final, and the national feather men's team strives to win the cup for the 11th time.
This year's Tongyou Cup is the highest-level badminton team event before the Paris Olympics. This year's Tang You Cup was held in Chengdu, China, and the national feather team also sent the strongest main lineup to face it, hoping to win the Tang You Cup at home. This year's Tang You Cup national feather men's and women's teams are led by Shi Yuqi and Chen Yufei respectively, the Tang You Cup group stage needs to be played in 5 games, and the knockout round adopts the stage of 5 games and 3 wins, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th games are singles, and the 2nd and 4th games are doubles.
The national feather women's team has swept all their opponents in the group stage so far, and the performance can be described as strong, and the Indonesian team is a dark horse in this Uber Cup, narrowly defeating the South Korean team that lacked An Seying 3-2 in yesterday's semi-finals to advance to the final, which is the Indonesian team has entered the Uber Cup final again after 16 years.
Game recap
Chen Yufei is currently ranked No. 2 in the world as the first sister of the national feather, and Indonesia's Mariska is ranked No. 9 in the world, and the two sides have played 13 times, with Chen Yufei winning 10-3. Mariska defeated Akane Yamaguchi in the group stage and is in hot form.
In the first game, the two played back and forth, Chen Yufei led Mariska 7-6 in the opening stage, and then Chen Yufei scored 4 points in a row to enter the technical break of the first game with an 11-6 lead. Coming back from the interval, Chen Yufei's offensive continued unabated, Mariska made many unnecessary mistakes, and the game became one-sided, Chen Yufei got the first game point 20-7 and won the first game 21-7.
In the second game, the two played a 2-2 draw at the beginning, and then Chen Yufei scored 3 points in a row to lead 5-2, and Mariska also chased 2 points in a row, and then the two scored tightly, and Chen Yufei led 11-8 into the technical break of the second game. Coming back from the break, Mariska found her groove to chase points in a row, and when the score was 13-11 in the second game, there was a multi-shot tie of 49 shots on the court, which also ignited the scene. After that, the score of the two was still stalemate, Chen Yufei led 15-14, Chen Yufei grasped the key points better, scored 3 points in a row and the score came to 18-14, Chen Yufei got the first game point 20-15, Chen Yufei won the second game 21-16, and also won the first game of the Uber Cup final. Chinese women's team 1-0 Indonesian women's team.