In the early morning of December 15, Beijing time, the Badminton World Championships ended the third day of competition, and in the second round of competition, many members of the national feather team played, with joys and worries. In the men's singles, Lu Guangzu and Zhao Junpeng performed well, beating the No. 4 seed, Chinese Taipei star Zhou Tiancheng and Japan's Hangki Watanabe to advance to the round of 16. He Bingjiao of the women's singles and the "fan dust" combination of the women's doubles have successfully won the promotion. And this World Championships another big unpopular door was also born at the same time, the top seed of the mixed doubles, but also the defending champion of this event, Guo Yu's "IELTS" combination Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong, fiercely fought three sets, first won and then lost 1-2 to the Chinese Hong Kong combination Zhang Dezheng / Wu Yongyao, missed the round of 16. On that day, the national feathers played 8 games and achieved a record of 4 wins and 4 losses.
As the most promising project of the national featherweight to impact the championship, the mixed doubles "IELTS" combination Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong is undoubtedly the most optimistic for fans. After all, they have long been ranked first in the world during the Tokyo Olympic Games cycle, and they are the champions of two World Championships, and the goal of the two is to achieve three consecutive championships and make up for the regrets of the Tokyo Olympic Games. To this end, after the Tokyo Olympic Games and the National Games, the two gave up participating in many events such as the Sudirman Cup, the Tangyou Cup and the Badminton League Tour, and in addition to individual rest and participation in activities, the rest of the time was fully engaged in the preparation for the World Championships.
Just before the World Championships, there was bad news for the "IELTS" team that their world number one position was lost and officially surpassed by the Thai duo de Chabo/Shahili. With the retirement of the "Yellow Duck" duo Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping, the two have higher hopes to achieve the defense of the mixed doubles championship for the national feather. Byees in the first round of the World Championships, they met Hong Kong-based pairs Cheung Tak-jeong and Wu Yongyao in the second round, who were only ranked 28th in the world, having previously played each other twice, one each. But I didn't expect that at the World Championships, the balance of the battle record was tilted in favor of the Hong Kong combination.
In the first set, the IELTS combination led all the way, withstood the pressure of chasing points in the last minute, and won 21-16 to take the lead. In the second set, IELTS fell all the way behind, and finally lost 13-21, and was dragged into the decider by the equalizer. In the final battle, Yasi fell behind all the way, although at one point after 13-20 trailing 7 match points, chased 4 points in a row, but finally lost 17-21, and was upset.
In other matches of the day, the men's singles three games, the young player Li Shifeng won first and then lost, was reversed by the Indian brother Srikans, Lu Guangzu fought hard in three sets to overturn the No. 4 seed Zhou Tiancheng, Zhao Junpeng defeated Japan's Watanabe Hanggui in the next two consecutive sets, and both advanced to the round of 16. In the men's doubles showdown, Liu Cheng / Huang Kaixiang lost 1-2 to the Japanese team of Hogi Tsurugi / Yugo Kobayashi. Women's singles He Bingjiao defeated France's Bartomo 2-0; women's doubles top seed "Fan Chen" duo Chen Qingchen/ Jia Yifan beat the Peruvian combination Salazar / Regal 2-0, and the mixed doubles matchup was another matchup, and the youngster Ou Xuanyi / Feng Xueying lost 0-2 to the European Championships xinke champion Russian badminton association combination Alimov / Daveletova.