On December 19, Beijing time, the 2021 Badminton World Championships entered the closing day, and the men's doubles final ushered in a focus "China-Japan showdown". The national dark horse combination He Jiting / Tan Qiang dueled against the No. 5 seed, the Japanese combination of Hoki Tsoro / Yugo Kobayashi, He Jiting / Tan Qiang lost two consecutive sets of the aggregate score of 0-2 was swept, the men's doubles runner-up still created the best record in the World Championships, and the Japanese combination of Hogi Sauro / Yugo Kobayashi won the World Championships Men's Doubles championship for the first time. The World Championships ended with 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze results, of which Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan won the women's doubles.
Men's doubles is a weak event in recent years, even if they have a double tower combination of Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen before, but their performance has not been stable enough, and this year's Tokyo Olympic twin tower combination won the men's doubles runner-up. Now that Li Junhui has announced his retirement due to injury, the national feather men's doubles is facing a reshuffle stage, and He Jiting/Tan Qiang has become the hope of the current national feather men's doubles, they helped the country to win the Sudirman Cup championship before.
Ho Ji Ting / Tan Qiang is just the Men's Doubles No. 16 seed at this World Championships, and they have opened a dark horse mode to continuously eliminate multiple seed combinations that are higher than them, such as Malaysia's two-pair men's doubles pairs Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi, Wu Weisheng/Chen Weiqiang, and the Danish combination Trup/Rasmussen.
He Jiting / Tan Qiang is currently ranked 24th in the world, and the Japanese duo of Hoki Tsurugi / Yugo Kobayashi is 4th in the world, but in the past six meetings in his career, Ho Ji Ting / Tan Qiang have the upper hand with 5 wins and 1 loss, but the only defeat was the most recent meeting, in the Danish Open, the national team was swept by the opponent 13-21 and 10-21.
The two-pair pair ushered in the seventh meeting of their careers, the first game He Jiting / Tan Qiang entered the state slowly, the beginning was suppressed by the Japanese combination attack 2-7 behind, and then continued to be pulled away to 3-9 behind. He Jiting/Tan Qiang scored 3 points in a row, the Japanese combination scored 5 consecutive points in a row, and the National Yu combination has fallen behind 6-14. He Jiting/Tan Qiang continued to be suppressed to open the score difference to 7-19, thus losing a set at 12-21.
Entering the second set, He Jiting/ Tan Qiang started 1-3 behind, and then the Guoyu combination counterattacked continuously to win 10-6. The Japanese duo threatened in the second half of the game, and the Kuniwa combination was countered by the opponent with consecutive mistakes, and was later pulled away to a 5-point gap of 13-18. He Jiting/Tan Qiang continued to chase points to narrow the gap, but in the end they were still powerless to reverse the situation, regretting to lose another set at 18-21, thus losing 0-2 to the second place in the men's doubles.
At the end of the journey of this World Championships, the national feather players won a total of 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze results, as follows:
Women's Doubles Champion: Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan, won the Women's Doubles Title at the World Championships for the second time in their careers.
Men's Doubles Runner-up: He Jiting / Tan Qiangchuang career World Championship best record.
Women's Singles Runner-up: He Bingjiao won the women's singles bronze medal at the World Championships for the second time in her career, and Zhang Yiman won the bronze medal in the women's singles of the World Championships for the first time in her career.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)