In the early morning of December 19, Beijing time, the Badminton World Championships ended the semi-final competition in Huelva, Spain, and in the men's doubles focus battle, the No. 16 seed and the national featherweight alone reached the top 4 combination He Jiting / Tan Qiang challenged the No. 7 seed, the Danish combination Oftrop / Rasmussen. In the end, the two performed well, fought hard for three sets, and finally won 2-1, achieving a major breakthrough in their careers, advancing to the final for the first time, with a score of 21-16, 13-21, and 21-15 in three sets. In the final showdown, He Jiting / Tan Qiang will compete with the Japanese team of Hoki Tsurugi / Yugo Kobayashi for the championship.
During the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the men's doubles of the national feathers gradually began to rebound, represented by the "twin towers" combination Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen, gradually occupying a place in the men's doubles of the world badminton, and the two reached the top at the 2018 Nanjing World Championships, winning the men's doubles championship with full gold for the national feathers in the trough. In addition, in the Sudirman Cup and Thomas Cup, the men's doubles also played an important role in grabbing points. It is in this environment that He Jiting/Tan Qiang has gradually grown into the third combination in the team, second only to "Twin Towers" and Han Chengkai/Zhou Haodong.
Since 2017, He Jiting/Tan Qiang have started to participate in the World Series together, but they did not get the opportunity to participate in the World Championships until 2018, but they stopped in the second round at that time. A year later, they competed again at the World Championships, but unfortunately stopped in the round of 16 after losing to the Danish duo in the third round. At the Tokyo Olympics, due to the number of participants, He Jiting/Tan Qiang regretted that they did not qualify for the Olympic Games. In the post-Olympic period, the two were once facing the risk of dismantling the gear, on the Sudirman Cup and the Tang You Cup, He Jiting and Zhou Haodong partnered for many games, and achieved good results, making great contributions to Guoyu winning the Sudirman Cup. But the instability of the men's doubles also led to the ultimate loss of the Thomas Cup.
No one expected that in such a big environment, He Jiting / Tan Qiang had some sense of mourning and participated in this year's World Championships as the 16th seed. On the road to advancement, Ho Ji Ting / Tan Qiang defeated two Malaysian pairs successively, completing seemingly impossible tasks, reaching the top 8 and 4 alone. In the semi-finals, they again met the Danish duo of Astrup/Rasmussen, both of whom were ranked higher than them. In the past four years, He Jiting/Tan Qiang have played against their opponents three times, 1 win and 2 losses, but the most recent time they played at the 2018 French Open, they won three sets.
In this World Championship showdown, the two pairs played very glue, Astrup/Rasmussen was in the lead for most of the time, but after 14-11, He Jiting/Tan Qiang began to counterattack, scored 6 consecutive points to overtake, and then a drumbeat, won 21-16 directly, and won the opening red. In the second set, He Jiting/Tan Qiang was originally the lead, but after the 9 draw, the two suddenly dropped the line, but they were caught off guard by Astrup/Rasmussen, and the score was quickly pulled apart, and finally lost the set 13-21, and the game was dragged into the decider. In the final showdown, He Jiting / Tan Qiang withstood the pressure exerted by the opponent, from 6 draws, scored 5 consecutive points to open the gap, and then maintained the lead until 21-15 completed the kill, the big score of 2-1 win, to help The National Feather to advance to the final of the World Championships again after three years.