On December 13, 2021, the badminton World Championships ended the first matchday of competition, the Chinese team won six consecutive victories, blasting out five 2-0, men's singles Lu Guangzu, Li Shifeng, Zhao Junpeng, women's singles Han Yue, men's doubles Liu Cheng/ Huang Kaixiang, mixed doubles Ou Xuanyi / Feng Xueying defeated their respective opponents to advance, of which Zhao Junpeng was even more upset Chinese Taipei famous Wang Ziwei, who became the first world top ten to be out.
The three men's singles national feathers qualified, Chen Long and Shi Yuqi were absent, Lu Guangzu defeated Thailand's famous Kunlavut 21-16, 21-12 to get a good start, Li Shifeng swept the American Lin Enkai 21-6, 21-10 to win his debut at the World Championships, Zhao Junpeng defeated Chinese Taipei's famous Wang Ziwei 16-21, 21-17, 21-15, and eliminated the seeded players to advance.
In the second round, Lu Guangzu again fought against Chinese Taipei's Zhou Tiancheng, Li Shifeng against India's famous Srikante, Zhao Junpeng's opponent is The Japanese teenager Watanabe Hanggui, Zhao Junpeng is relatively much easier, the other two games are not easy to play, looking forward to the performance of young players.
On the first day of the women's singles, only Han Yue played, Olympic champion Chen Yufei was absent, Han Yue eliminated Vietnamese player Ruan Cuiling 21-16, 21-14, the next round of opponent Spain's famous Marin withdrew from the competition due to injury, Han Yue won without a fight, becoming the first Chinese player to advance to the round of 16, this situation is not an isolated case, because many players are temporarily disqualified, and the BWF does not have time to arrange others to replace.
Men's doubles Liu Cheng/Huang Kaixiang defeated Hong Kong duo Zhang Dezheng/Yang Mingnuo 21-13, 21-17, followed by a match against the Japanese team of Homu Zhuolang/Yugo Kobayashi, mixed doubles Ou Xuanyi/ Feng Xueying eliminated the Danish combination Ofor /Magrund 23-21, 21-14, and the second round against the Russian team Ofimov/Davletova, except for Zhao Junpeng's men's singles match, the other five games were 2-0 quick finals.
This year's World Championships a number of famous players are absent, it is likely to produce new champions, the Chinese team in the mixed doubles, women's doubles are the big hits to win the championship, this time the coaching team is hoping to train young players through the competition, so there are not too many requirements, go all out to fight well, like Li Shifeng is the first time to participate in the World Championships, the young players who have had outstanding performances in the Thomas Cup, whether they can create good results are worth looking forward to.
There are only three matches on the second match day, namely women's singles Zhang Yiman against Hong Kong's Zhang Yanyi, men's doubles Wang Chang / Di Zijian vs. Japanese combination Koga Hui / Saito Taiichi, Zhang Nan / Ou Xuanyi against Indian combination Ajun / Kapila, Olympic champion Denmark's Acetron will also play, his opponent is Luo Jianyou from Singapore, the two have met four times, Acesaron won all victories.