Since the merger of the BWF and the International Badminton Federation in 1982, from the World Championships to the World Cup to the Olympic Games, hundreds of world champions have been born, and among these many champions, the most "pretended" and the most irritating is Lin Dan's winning trip at the 2013 World Championships.
Lin Dan, who won the badminton "Huashan Sword" at the London Olympic Games and won the double world championship Grand Slam (World Cup, World Championships, Olympic Games, Thomas Cup, Sudirman Cup), can be described as a spring breeze, and also gave birth to a sense of loneliness that is difficult to find an opponent, so after the Olympic Games, Lin Dan decided to stay away from the field and return to his family.
After the Olympics, Lin Dan, who went out on his honeymoon, almost stopped competing, and the world ranking fell all the way down to 286th.
His fading out of the arena also made the world badminton world that had struggled under the high-pressure rule of Lin Ren suddenly come alive, how could all the good players let go of this heavenly opportunity? In the 2013 all-year competitions, in the first half of the Year's All England Open, Chen Long and Li Zongwei played inextricably, one wanted to replace Lin Dan in the national team single position, one wanted to take off the "world second" title, that year's World Championship naturally became the best opportunity for the two to correct their names.
But just when the crowd of heroes rubbed their fists at the World Championships, Lin Dan, who did not talk about martial arts, actually turned his head and announced that he wanted to participate, and the BWF naturally did not miss this opportunity to increase the heat, and it was very refreshing to give Lin Dan a wild card, and Lin Dan, who ranked 286 in the world, naturally became the lowest ranking player in the history of the World Championships.
The first victim was world number 58 American Satawat Pang, and the match eventually became a nightmare for the 17-year-old brother, who met the most powerful demon in badminton history when he participated in the World Championships for the first time, and the whole game ended in just 27 minutes. Later, the Dutch player Fang Facai and the Malaysian player Zhang Weifeng were also persecuted.
In the quarter-finals, Lin Dan's evil butcher knife finally swung at his own people, the world's second-ranked Chen Long.
In 2013, as the beginning of Chen Long's peak, with Lin Dan's vacation, Li Zongwei's state declined slightly, Chen Long defeated Li Zongwei in the first half of that year to win the All England Championship, the momentum rose very strongly, was listed as the key cultivation object of men's singles, and is also the most promising to replace Lin Dan as a single male player, this World Championships and as the second seed to play, the result of the eight finals encountered Lin Dan, the pressure is not small.
And in this game, Chen Long deeply felt Lin Dan's "moral corruption and not talking about martial virtue".
Lin Dan is well aware of the way Chen Long's tall and flexible body brings, and takes the initiative to abandon the attack and a wide range of pulling, boldly using the tactic of blocking the middle of the road to restrict Chen Long's ball, as well as guarding the front of the net, strengthening the control of the first half and mobilizing Chen Long through the ball. Chen Long, a tall man, was forcibly limited to the first half by Lin Dan, and the flat draw that followed was precisely the tall man's death hole. This also directly led to a large increase in Chen Long's mistakes, and because most of them hit the ball in the first half, Lin Dan's shot was more upright, Chen Long did not dare to prejudge the ball path, plus Lin Dan's first half of the assault coverage rate can be said to be the strongest in history, the terrifying ability to grab the ball caused Chen Long not to rush to push the ball, and finally 2-0, Chen Long can almost be said to have defeated Lin Dan without a chance, tearfully out.
After this game, in addition to Chen Long, the more excited was Li Zongwei, who bluntly said that Lin Dan's participation in the World Championships with a wild card was unfair to other players who seriously played the ranking competition. But it can also be seen that in Li Zongwei's heart, the two have not yet encountered him and he has already lost.
But it was time to hide from it, and after Lin Dan casually killed his semi-final opponent Ruan Tianming, Lin and Li met again in the world series final. Ranked 286 against No. 1 in the world, this is the most disparity in the rankings of the two sides in the history of the World Series finals.
At this moment, Li Zongwei's mind flashed the picture of winning the asian championship in the three world championships of 08, 11 and 12 in turn, and he couldn't help but shiver. However, the second in the world is after all the second in the world, the second in the world is the closest to the world's first, and the old Li Xiansheng won the first set, which is also the first set lost by the 286 players in this World Championship.
Old Lee's history of blood and tears
But the master duel, not in the move but in the heart. In terms of technology, the two pushed badminton to an outrageous point together, who said that players in the 21st century do not fight in front of the net? Lin Li not only fights, but also derives an extremely exaggerated rubbing spinning ball, and the two and other people fight each other to cut melons and cut vegetables, only when they fight carefully. Therefore, the two people who have reached the peak of technology, the difference between winning and losing lies in the mentality.
The narrow road met the brave to win, and Lin Dan pulled back a set in the second set and took a 19-15 lead in the third set. At this time, Li Zongwei's body and psychology finally could not hold up, and finally withdrew from the game with cramps, tearfully accepting the World Series Sanlianya.
The world's 286th runners have created a miracle, becoming the world's lowest ranking world champion, and also achieving an unprecedented five-time world championship and three consecutive world championships, and the most "dressed" champion is well deserved.
By the way, in 2014, the "shameless" Lin Dan still wanted to repeat the trick, but under the pressure of many parties, he finally failed to compete again in the wild card. Then at the Asian Games at the end of that year, Lin Dan won the 2014 World Championships champion and runner-up Chen Long and Li Zongwei after taking turns to win the championship, achieving a super double grand slam.
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