On 16 February, the 2022 Asian Badminton Team Championships entered its second matchday when the host Malaysian men's team faced Singapore led by ST World Championships men's singles champion Lo Kin Woo. The biggest focus of this match is the first singles duel between the two sides, Li Zijia, known as "Li Zongwei's successor", against Luo Jianyou, the men's singles champion at last year's Spanish Badminton World Championships. Coupled with the two meetings last year, Li Zijia lost the game, so fighting at the doorstep, Li Zijia is looking forward to revenge, improving his morale and helping the team to get a good start.
This year's Asian Team Championship is the qualifying round for the Tangyou Cup in May, and the top three teams of the men's and women's teams will qualify for the main tournament. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, Guoyu did not send teams to participate, while other major teams, including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and other teams, did not send the main players to participate, basically sent second-tier or substitute lineups to play. However, the Malaysian team, as the host, wants to seize this opportunity and strive to win the Asian championship at home. As the new leader of Badminton in Malaysia, Li Zijia hopes to prove his worth in the game.
According to the pre-match appearance list arrangement, the first singles of the two sides was determined to be the first match of the opening game, and the duel between Li Zijia and Luo Jianyou arrived as scheduled. The two have played each other a total of 4 times before, the first two showdowns were won by Li Zijia, but they were three years ago, and last year the two also met twice, respectively, at the French Open and the German Hailu Open, the result of these two times, Li Zijia lost to Luo Jianyou, of which France was 22-24, 14-21 lost, the German Hailu Open was won 21-19 first in the case of a first set, the second set was lost 13-21, the decider was 12-17 behind due to injury. Therefore, before the game, Li Zijia said that he was looking forward to revenge.
After the start of the game, Li Zijia had a strong momentum, the first set was directly won by a 21-6 disparity, and luo Jianyou did not fight back in the second set, Li Zijia won 21-14 successfully, and the big score was successfully swept 2-0, which made a good start for Malaysia. The second was the first doubles showdown between the two sides, Xie Dingfeng / Su Weiyi beat Danny / Gao Yongjie 21-14, 21-12; the third was a two-single showdown, Huang Zhiyong lost a set 17-21 first, won two consecutive sets of 24-22, 21-19, for Malaysia to lock in the game early. The fourth game was a two-double duel between the two sides, Noizuddin / Wu Shifei defeated Xu Yongkai / Guo Junliang 21-10, 21-13, and the last three-single showdown, Liang Junhao defeated Xu Jiawei 21-17, 22-20, and finally the Malaysian men's team swept the Singapore team 5-0 on aggregate and won the opening.