On December 15, 2021, the badminton World Championships ended the third matchday of the competition, the Chinese team won 4 and lost 4, the men's singles Lu Guangzu, Zhao Junpeng, the women's singles He Bingjiao, Han Yue, Zhang Yiman, the women's doubles Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan advanced to the round of 16, Li Shifeng, Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong, Liu Cheng / Huang Kaixiang, Ou Xuanyi / Feng Xueying out, mixed doubles top seed Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong upset out, surprising.
Men's singles three-man play, Lu Guangzu 14-21, 21-15, 21-15 against Chinese Taipei's Zhou Tiancheng, this is his first victory over the world's top five opponents, ending the three consecutive defeats between the two sides, just in the first round Lu Guangzu also defeated Thailand's Quinravut, followed by a game against India's brother Sri Kante for the quarter-finals, the latter narrowly defeated Li Shifeng 15-21, 21-18, 21-17.
Zhao Junpeng defeated Japanese teenager Hanggui Watanabe 21-15, 21-11, and then against Ireland's Nguyen Il, as long as he played at a normal level, there was no problem in qualifying, India's Lakshya eliminated Japan's famous Nishimoto Kenta, and the Japanese team was left in the men's singles event, leaving only Changshan Kantai alone.
Women's singles He Bingjiao swept France's Bartomeni 21-12, 21-15, Han Yue and Zhang Yiman withdrew from the competition and the two directly advanced, Chinese Taipei's Dai Ziying eliminated Russia's Kosetkaya, and India's Sindu lightly won Austria's Lipiska.
Men's doubles Liu Cheng/Huang Kaixiang lost 12-21, 21-18, 13-21 to the Japanese duo of Tsurugi / Yugo Kobayashi, Olympic champions Chinese Taipei duo Li Yang / Wang Qilin reversed the Dutch duo of Gil / Van der Luke, women's doubles Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan beat the Peruvian duo Salaza / Regal 21-11, 21-4, and the two Japanese combinations Matsumoto Mayu / Nagahara Kazuna, Shida Chiyo / Matsuyama Naomi all advanced 2-0.
Mixed doubles Ou Xuanyi / Feng Xueying lost 16-21, 15-21 to the Russian combination Ofimov / Davletova, the biggest underdog was the defending champion Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong was reversed by the Hong Kong combination of Zhang Dezheng / Wu Yongyao, zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong took the lead 21-16 in the first set, and then the two suddenly dropped, Zhang Dezheng / Wu Yongyao won two consecutive sets 21-13, 21-17, and eliminated the top seed 2-1.
In recent years, mixed doubles is a national feather ace project, many times in the competition to achieve coverage, Olympic champion Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping absent, Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong shouldered heavy responsibilities, did not expect the debut to be eliminated, this result is indeed unexpected, worthy of the coaching team to summarize, men's doubles and mixed doubles are two pairs of combination out, the overall performance of doubles is indeed not as good as singles, the next can only be looking forward to the performance of women's doubles.