A few days ago, the Chinese badminton team has ended the previous international tournament journey for more than a month, and the main players and coaching staff are still in quarantine. The players who had temporarily left the national team and missed international competitions also began to return to the team one after another and began to train and prepare for the year-end event. Today, the national mixed doubles world's first "IELTS" combination Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong released the latest news, the two have officially returned, the combination officially began to prepare for the Badminton World Championships in December, as the defending champions, they have only one goal, that is, to strive to achieve the world championship three consecutive championships.
Before the Tokyo Olympics, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, as the strongest and in-form pairs of the five individual events of the national feather, were considered to be the most stable single event of the gold medal. In fact, in addition to the "IELTS" combination, there is another pair of "Yellow Duck" combination Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping, and the four of them formed the National Feather Mixed Doubles Insurance, which is not only the world's first and the world's second, but also the champion and runner-up in the multi-stop competition in the cycle. Relatively speaking, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong are in better shape, so their results and rankings are higher than Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping, so they have also become the biggest favorites for the gold medal.
After coming to Tokyo, the two pairs of National Feather Mixed Doubles performed heroically, from the group stage to the elimination round, they fought all the way to victory, and finally successfully met in the final, and won the gold and silver medal of mixed doubles for National Feather in advance. However, in the end, the final of the ultimate civil war was played quite stiffly, and the victory was not the expected "IELTS" combination, but the "Yellow Duck" combination soared into the sky and achieved an Olympic championship breakthrough. After arriving at the domestic arena, the mixed doubles final of the National Games, once again staged two pairs of mixed doubles combinations, the result of this victory is the "Yellow Duck" combination, successively to achieve the Olympic Games and the National Games, full of gold doubles, Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping also replaced Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, becoming the first combination of mixed doubles in China.
In subsequent international competitions, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong did not register for personal reasons, while Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping took on the doubles responsibility of sudirman cup, Thomas cup and Uber cup in several key events, and finally won the Sudirman Cup and Uber Cup. In addition, Huang Dongping competed with young zheng yu at the Danish Open, achieving a counterattack and winning the top event of the Badminton League Tour. At the same time, Zheng Siwei in China completed a major life event, successfully proposed marriage to his girlfriend who had been in love for many years, and registered for a license to officially get married. As a partner, Huang Yaqiong sent her most sincere wishes. Now, both have ended their sabbaticals, officially returned to training, opened the preparation mode, in December's Spain Badminton World Championships, they will launch a challenge to the championship, to achieve a three-consecutive victory.