The 2022 Asian Badminton Team Championships started yesterday in Shah Alam, Malaysia, and although only eight teams competed, some of the highlights were also worth looking forward to, such as Luo Jianyou vs Li Zijia, which will be played at 4 p.m. today.
Only eight teams competed
The Asian Badminton Federation holds the Asian Badminton Team Championship in even-numbered years, and the results of the Asian Team Competition are related to the participation seats of this year's Tangyou Cup, but because most of the strong teams can qualify for the final circle through the host quota, the defending champion quota, the world ranking quota, etc., the Asian team competition only attracted eight teams to participate. Among them, the men's team has eight teams participating, the women's team has seven teams participating, and the Singapore team only participates in the men's team competition, not the women's team competition.
The results of the draw showed that the men's group A included Indonesia, India, South Korea and Hong Kong, the B group included Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Kazakhstan; the women's group Y included Japan, India and Malaysia, and the Z group included South Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Kazakhstan.
According to the rules of the competition, the competition starts with a group stage, and the top two teams advance to the semi-finals and finally compete for the championship. The match officially began yesterday, the Indonesian women's team won 4-1 against the Chinese Hong Kong women's team, the South Korean women's team won 5-0 against the Kazakhstan women's team, the Indonesian men's team won 4-1 against the Chinese Hong Kong men's team, the Korean men's team won 5-0 against the Indian men's team, and the Malaysian women's team won 3-2 against the Japanese women's team.
Left: 2019 World Youth Championships women's singles champion Gunriko
Right: Born in 2005, the young general Ming di Yang Cai
Japanese "post-05" women will appear
The Loss of the Japanese women's team to the Malaysian women's team was a surprise, but the reason was because the Japanese team sent a non-main team. It is worth mentioning that the Japanese women's team sent the 2019 World Youth Championships women's singles champion KuniShiriko and the young player Born in 2005. Yoshinori Mingji is currently in her sophomore year of high school and has achieved good results in both women's singles and women's doubles in the All Japan High School Badminton League.
In yesterday's match against Malaysia, Gunji Lizi and Mingdi Yangcai appeared in two and three singles respectively, and then joined hands to play a two-double match. In the end, Gunji Lizi won the second single, but Mingdi Yangcai's three singles and the doubles of the two lost. Nevertheless, at this age, they are given the opportunity to represent their country in international team competitions, which is a great stage for them to grow.
Like the Japanese team, almost all the participating teams only sent young players to train, and the more famous players were mainly concentrated in the men's singles, including Luo Jianyou in Singapore, Li Zijia in Malaysia, Wu Jialang in Hong Kong, and Lakshya in India. Malaysian men's doubles Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi, who won the Men's Doubles bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, are the only Olympic medalists to participate, while Indonesian freshmen's men's doubles Karnando/Martin and South Korean women's doubles teenager Bai Hona are already small and famous in the squad.
The game continues and there will be a great showdown at 4 p.m. today. In the group stage of the men's team B, the Malaysian men's team and the Singapore men's team faced each other, and both sides sent the strongest players in a single. Singapore is the World Championship Stingico champion Luo Jianyou, Malaysia is just experienced a solo storm Li Zijia, the two players have been competing with each other since childhood in the adult arena record is 2-2 draw, the two sides are bound to have a dragon fight.
*The image in this article is from the Asian BBA