On December 18, Beijing time, the 2021 Badminton World Championships continued to compete in the semifinals, after the national women's singles main He Bingjiao lost 1-2 to the world's number one Dai Ziying in three sets, another national featherweight dark horse player Zhang Yiman lost 0-2 to Japan's sister Akane Yamaguchi, the two of them both missed the women's singles final, announcing that the national singles were completely destroyed, but the women's singles still won two bronze medals (the top four players did not need to play bronze medal battles, tied to win the bronze medal).
The singles expectations of the national feathers at this year's World Championships are not high, after all, the women's singles Xinke Olympic champion Chen Yufei is absent, the men's singles Olympic champion and world championship champion Chen Long is absent, and the new brother Shi Yuqi is also absent. The men's singles of Guoyu was completely destroyed in advance and did not qualify for the final four, and the women's singles was He Bingjiao and Zhang Yiman promoted to the final four, but He Bingjiao lost 1-2 to Dai Ziying in the previous semi-finals.
Now another women's singles semi-final has begun to focus on the "China-Japan showdown", the national dark horse player Zhang Yiman against Japan's first sister Akane Yamaguchi. Zhang Yiman replaced Chen Yufei in the competition, and she eliminated the 16th seed Jin Jia'en, the previous champion of the championship and the 7th seed Indanong, and advanced to the final four of the World Championship for the first time in her career. Zhang Yiman is currently ranked 46th in the world, and as for Akane Yamaguchi, who is ranked 3rd in the world, the two have never played each other in their past careers.
The two began their careers meeting for the first time in this game, the first game Zhang Yiman started 1-3 behind, Zhang Yiman scored 2 consecutive points to tie the score, Yamaguchi Akane scored 3 points in a row, zhang Yiman continued to chase to 6-6 draw. Akane Yamaguchi continued to attack sharply to suppress, Zhang Yiman gradually fell behind 7-12, and Zhang Yiman played a wave of 8-3 attacks to chase down the 15-15 draw. The inexperienced Zhang Yiman then made a series of mistakes, and after losing the set point after falling behind 17-20, Zhang Yiman saved two consecutive innings, or regretted losing one set first at 19-21.
Entering the second set, Zhang Yiman started to fall behind 1-3 again, and then Zhang Yiman continued to attack to win 7-6, and the two then alternated leads. Zhang Yiman led 11-10 in the first half of the inning, and Zhang Yiman then continued to suppress Akane Yamaguchi to extend the 17-13 lead. Akane Yamaguchi frantically counterattacked to score consecutive points and overtake the score in the final stages of the innings, zhang Yiman lost another set 19-21, thus losing 0-2 to Akane Yamaguchi and missing the final.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)