The results of the 2020/2021 BWF Best of the Year awards are out! The candidates Chen Yufei, Wang Yilu and Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping were not elected, and the athletes who won the Tokyo Olympic Championship, except for the three of Them, were successfully elected. The year-end best female player awarded to Dai Ziying of Chinese Taipei has aroused widespread doubts among fans.
Previously, the BWF announced the list of candidates for the annual award ceremony, Wang Yilu entered the male player of the year candidate, Chen Yufei entered the female player of the year candidate, and Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping entered the best combination candidate of the year. Chen Yufei won the women's singles title at the Tokyo Olympics, followed by the Sudirman Cup and Uber Cup, and once reached the top of the world after winning the BWF year-end finals at the end of 2019. Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping won the mixed doubles title at the Tokyo Olympics, ranking second in the world for a long time, second only to teammates Zheng Weiwei/Huang Yaqiong, and at the Tokyo Olympics, they defeated Zheng Weiwei/Huang Yaqiong.
This afternoon, the results of the BWF's annual selection were announced, with the Best Male Player of the Year awarded to Arcelor, the Tokyo Olympic Men's Singles Champion and the world number one in the men's singles not long ago; the Women's Player of the Year to Dai Ziying of the Women's Singles World No. 1 and Chinese Taipei; and the Best Combination of the Year to Tokyo Olympic Women's Doubles Champion Indonesia's Polly/Lahayu. Tokyo Olympic men's doubles champion and Chinese Taipei duo Li Yang and Wang Qilin won the fastest improving player of the year, and Thai men's singles rookie Kunravut was named the most promising player of the year. Guo Yu's Chen Yufei, Wang Yilu, and Huang Dongping were not elected.
Among them, the most incomprehensible thing for fans is that Chen Yufei lost the best female player of the year. In the period from November 1, 2019 to October 31, 2021 in the BWF selection cycle, four candidates Chen Yufei won 7 championships, including the heaviest Women's Singles Champion at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Ma Lin won 4 championships, Akane Yamaguchi won 3 championships, and Dai Ziying only won 2 championships, and finally Dai Ziying was elected. In addition to Dai Ziying's world first title, whether it is the Olympic Games, the World Championships or the Sudirman Cup and Uber Cup competitions, she has not performed brilliantly, and she has not won the world championship title so far. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, Dai Ziying lost to Chen Yufei, she did not participate in the Su Cup and Uber Cup, the heaviest weight during this time was the 2020 All England Open Women's Singles Champion, with such results to get the best female player of the year, how can fans not question?
In the BWF's Weibo post announcing the results of the best of the year, fans have questioned and directly called out that they do not understand such a selection result. "What does Xiao Dai rely on?" Olympic + Double Cup champion Chen Yufei is not worthy? "The Tokyo Olympic champion is not won by our China!" "In the judging cycle, Chen Yufei, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Women's Singles Champion, has the best individual and team results. "I thought that the reason for the collective absence of many Open tournaments this year offended the International Badminton Federation, but this little Dai was also absent!" Too double standard! ”