On December 13, Beijing time, the 2021 Badminton World Championships kicked off in Spain, and on the first day of competition, the Chinese team won a big victory. Lu Guangzu, Li Shifeng and Zhao Junpeng won the first round of the women's singles together, Han Yue won in the first round of the women's singles, and the men's doubles and mixed doubles combinations all won the first battle.
Before the opening of the badminton World Championships, including Chen Yufei and Momota Kendou, many of the world's famous players were absent, and the entire Indonesian team announced that they had withdrawn from the event, and the BWF did not choose to re-draw, which also made the previous match days relatively unwatchable.
The men's singles match between Lu Guangzu and Thailand's Kunlavut is considered an encounter, and Kunlavut has been in good shape recently, reaching the final in the previous Badminton World Tour Finals, and eventually losing to Axelsen as runner-up. Kunravut had only a week to adjust after the finals, a week in which he was travelling from Indonesia to Spain and preparing for the World Championships. Lu Guangzu and the Chinese team went to Spain together, they spent nearly 40 hours on the trip, fortunately the Chinese team has been in a state of rest, ready to prepare for the World Championships.
After the opening, Lu Guangzu entered the state quickly, and he led 7-2, 10-3. In the following game, Lu Guangzu firmly maintained the lead, he withstood the multiple shocks of Quinravut, 21-16, Lu Guangzu easily won the first set. After the start of the second set, the two drew several times, and after 9 draws, Lu Guangzu seized the opportunity to score 5 consecutive points to lead the way. At this time, Quinravut recovered 1 point, and Lu Guangzu won 4 points to lead 18-10 without reducing the offensive attack. There was no suspense in the match after that, Lu Guangzu won the second set 21-12, and he won 2-0 to pass the level.
Zhao Junpeng met Wang Ziwei, the 10th seed in Chinese Taipei. Although he lost a set in the game first, Zhao Junpeng was not discouraged, and he then tried to counterattack, successfully won two sets in a row, and finally after 1 hour and 9 minutes of hard fighting, he reversed the elimination of Wang Ziwei 2-1 (16-21, 21-17, 21-15). Li Shifeng won easily in the first round, and it took him only 28 minutes to beat the American Ram with two consecutive cities 21-6, 21-10.
In the other men's singles first round matches, No. 4 seed Taipei's Zhou Tiancheng defeated Thailand's Tamasain 2-0 (21-12, 21-10), No. 12 seed Srikans of India beat Spain's Abyan 2-0 (21-12, 21-16) and No. 15 seed Japan's Nishimoto Boxer beat Malaysia's Zhan Junwei 2-0 (21-17, 21-8). Guatemala's Colton eliminated The Netherlands' Couviker 2-1 (21-18, 10-21, 21-16). Another upset in the men's singles on the first day was a 14th-seeded Indian Planis who lost 1-2 (21-17, 7-21, 18-21) to The Netherlands' Karggiovi.
In the women's singles, Han Yue took only 37 minutes to win a Vietnamese player 2-0 (21-16, 21-14). In the second round, Han Yue would have encountered the No. 4 seed host Ma Lin, but This time, Ma Lin, who chose to come back, finally chose to retire, and Han Yue won without a fight and directly advanced.
In the men's doubles first round, Huang Kaixiang / Liu Cheng spent 34 minutes to beat Hong Kong's Zhang Dezheng / Yang Mingnuo in 2-0 (21-13, 21-17). In this game, Huang Kaixiang /Liu Cheng, except for a brief drop in the opening stage of the second set, they were in the lead for most of the time, without giving their opponents any chance to win.
In the mixed doubles, Ou Xuanyi/ Feng Xueying eliminated the Danish duo of Noel/Magrund 2-0 (23-21, 21-14). In the first set, the two pairs competed fiercely, and there were many equal points on the field, and the Danish combination had taken the lead 20-19 to get the set point, but Ou Xuanyi/Feng Xueying played very tenaciously, and they successfully resolved the crisis to level. After wasting a set point, the Chinese duo scored two consecutive points in a winning chase, and they won the first set and finally won another set to win the game.