At the Tokyo Olympic Games that ended last year, the mixed doubles partners Huang Yaqiong and Zheng Siwei successfully won the silver medal in badminton mixed doubles. However, the ace pair will not be able to go hand in hand after that, in order to prepare for the new season, GuoYu has adjusted the doubles combination, of which Huang Yaqiong and Zheng Siwei, a mixed doubles combination, will be officially dismantled and run-in with the new partner.
The dismantling and adjustment of Huang Yaqiong and Zheng Siwei, a mixed doubles "trump card" combination, has deeply puzzled many fans. After all, in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the mixed doubles combination of the two has long been ranked first in the world. Although they lost to teammates Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping at the Tokyo Olympics, their overall strength has always been online, and the two have won gold medals in mixed doubles events in many international competitions such as the Badminton World Championships.
Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association and head coach of the National Badminton Doubles, said that this adjustment is not because of the decline in the strength of the two, but for the consideration of the Paris Olympic cycle and the replacement of the old and new. Born in 1994, Huang Yaqiong was already 30+ years old at the Paris Olympic Games, and after she and Zheng Siwei broke up, they will be paired with Ou Xuanyi and Zhang Shuxian respectively to appear on the field in a new combination.
On January 28, Beijing time, Huang Yaqiong posted a photo of her own single training and posted that this year's Spring Festival will be spent in hard training. This is the first time she has made her debut since the "IELTS group" was split. Judging from the dynamics and photos released, Huang Yaqiong's mood does not seem to be affected by the "demolition of pairs", she trained step by step, and had to say that she was very self-disciplined.
Although the "IELTS combination" split has made many fans regret, the new partners of the two currently exposed, Ou Xuanyi and Zhang Shuxian, can also be regarded as strong. The same age as Huang Yaqiong, Ou Xuanyi was the 14th National Games Badminton Men's Team Champion and runner-up in the mixed doubles event of the 2020 National Badminton Championships. Zhang Shuxian has also competed in the international arena many times, and what kind of spark these two new pairs will rub out, let us wait and see.
In addition to the mixed doubles combination adjustment, the women's doubles combination of Du Yue and Li Yinhui has also ushered in major changes. Because of physical reasons, Li Yinhui has expressed his intention to retire, and the world ranking of the two has been removed. According to "Sina Badminton", Du Yue will be paired with Li Wenmei after that, and Li Yinhui has entered the university to teach. Li Yinhui's withdrawal also surprised many fans, she was born in 1997, only 25 years old, in 2019 she and her teammates lifted the Sudirman Cup and won the title of world champion. During last year's National Games, she also helped Hubei win the team championship and win the silver medal in the women's doubles.
At present, Guoyu is conducting winter training in Sichuan, and after completing the adjustment of the team, the team members gave up the Spring Festival break and threw themselves into intense training, expecting them to be able to get good results in the future events.