On December 14, the Badminton World Championships entered its third matchday, and in the men's singles showdown, The No. 4 seed of the new generation of national feathers, Lu Guangzu Challenge, will be the No. 4 seed and Chinese Taipei star Zhou Tiancheng. As a result, Lu Guangzu withstood the pressure to win two consecutive sets in the case of losing one set first, completed a major reversal, and successfully "upset" 2-1 and strongly advanced to the round of 16. At the same time, Lu Guangzu also ended his career against Zhou Tiancheng's previous three consecutive defeats, without an embarrassing record of victory. In the next round, Lu Guangzu will face India's brother Srikans, who also played three sets in the second round, defeating Guoyu youngster Li Shifeng 2-1.
As a new generation of players in the men's singles of the national feather, Lu Guangzu has been pinned high hopes, and over the years in domestic and foreign competitions, he has gradually grown up, and Shi Yuqi can be called a gemini star. In the recent Sudirman Cup and Tang You Cup, Lu Guangzu went out with the team and achieved the honor of world champion. At this World Championship, due to Shi Yuqi's retirement due to injury, Lu Guangzu became the leader of the men's singles, leading Zhao Junpeng and Li Shifeng to fight. In the first round of the game, Lu Guangzu met Thailand's 20-year-old rising star Kunlavut, and as a result, he performed well, 21-16, 21-12 in two consecutive sets, and advanced strongly. And the second round of meeting Zhou Tiancheng, is considered to be an old enemy of Lu Guangzu, before the two met three times, Lu Guangzu lost all three battles, without a win, so before the game, he hopes to be able to defeat the opponent and achieve a breakthrough.
The Chinese Taipei brother Zhou Tiancheng is stable in the world's top eight ranks all year round, and the World Championships have participated in 6 times, but the best results are only the top 8, which are in 2014 and 2017 to 2019 for three consecutive years. Therefore, before the game, Zhou Tiancheng stressed in an interview that he very much wanted to cross this hurdle. At this World Championship, Zhou Tiancheng as the No. 4 seed, due to the first seed Momota Kendou retired due to injury, and the No. 2 seed, the world's no. 1 Danish star Acelon lost to Singapore's Luo Jianyou in the first round, so Zhou Tiancheng also became one of the popular candidates for the championship.
In the first set of the two, Zhou Tiancheng was in an absolutely active position, taking the lead from 1-1, and finally took an easy 21-14 to take a 1-0 lead. In the second set, Lu Guangzu began to gradually adapt to Zhou Tiancheng's playing style and always maintained the lead, although he was once chased to 14-14 in the middle of the game, but then he scored 6 consecutive points, directly got the set point opportunity, and finally 21-15, successfully equalized. In the decider, Zhou Tiancheng had the old problem of lack of physical fitness, so after the first half of the standoff, the middle section was opened by Lu Guangzu to the score gap, and Lu Guangzu did not let the opportunity slip away, and kept the lead until the end, it was another 21-15, Lu Guangzu achieved a big reversal! The match lasted 79 minutes and was a tug-of-war.