A few days ago, the Chinese badminton team has arrived safely in China after participating in the World Championships. At the World Championships in Spain, they won a total of one gold, one silver and two bronze results. On the occasion of the World Championships, an extremely embarrassing topic was once again mentioned by fans, that is, the Chinese team has not won the Men's and Women's Singles Championships championship for a long time. As one of the three major badminton competitions in the world, the World Championships have always been the top international event with the highest gold content, and to some extent, even more fierce than the competition of the Olympic Games. Judging from the world championships of men's and women's singles, the last time Guoyu won the men's singles championship dates back to 2015, and the women's singles was successful in the world championship finals, or in 2011.
In the past ten years, China's badminton team has always remained in the top ranks of the world, but why has it been delayed in winning the Men's and Women's Singles Championships at the World Championships?
Is the overall strength already in a significant decline, or is the coach and team tactical choice to give up? In the recent Spanish World Championships, Shi Yuqi, Chen Long and Chen Yufei were all absent, which also allowed the Chinese team to withdraw from the championship competition early, but He Bingjiao and Zhang Yiman were able to reach the women's singles final four, which also reflected the depth of the bench of the national women's singles. Some fans said that even if Shi Yuqi and Chen Long participated in this World Championship, they would not be able to win the championship.
After all, today's world badminton men's singles field has shown a situation of competition for the deer, Denmark's Arcelor seems to be thriving, but in the first round of the World Championships was swept by the big dark horse Luo Jianyou, who finally won the championship. Therefore, there is no absolute king in the men's singles arena. At the 2015 World Championships, Chen Long was at the peak of his career, and even though Li Zongwei was catching up, he still couldn't steal the singles championship in Chen Long's hands. Prior to this, the player who won the men's singles title in the Chinese team at the World Championships was Lin Dan. At present, the national men's singles has not yet emerged super first-class players, and once again won the world championship men's singles championship, perhaps it will take a while.
Compared with the difficulties of the men's singles, the national women's singles won the World Championships is more bumpy, and at the 2011 World Championships, Wang Yihan, who was in a good state at the time, lived up to expectations and saved the gold medal for the team. But in the decade from 2012 to 2021, the World Championship women's singles championship trophy has never been written with the name of a Chinese player. Once upon a time, Zhang Ning, Xie Xingfang and others almost monopolized the highest podium in the women's singles of the World Championships, but now, even reaching the final is particularly difficult. Li Xuerui, the 2012 London Olympic women's singles champion, had the opportunity to achieve a career Grand Slam in 2013, but was blocked by Thai Lazzano.
At the Rio Olympics, the national women's singles created the worst record in history. In the Tokyo Olympic cycle, although several newcomers did not occupy an absolute dominant position, Chen Yufei successfully surprised everyone in the Olympic arena and won the women's singles championship. Judging from the men's and women's singles results at the World Championships in recent years, both individual events have become the weaknesses of the Chinese team. The men's team can no longer appear a second "super Dan", the women's team's first sister Chen Yufei has not firmly occupied the strength of the women's singles first, when will the national feathers once again be the world championship men's and women's singles champion?
(Luo Treasurer)