At the 2022 Asian Badminton Team Championships that ended last night, the Malaysian men's team led by Li Zijia won the men's team crown at home with a clear advantage, and the women's team championship belonged to the Indonesian women's team. Li Zijia, who has just experienced the storm of solo flight, has performed well in this competition, will he become more mature and powerful because of this incident?
The Malaysian men's team has a big advantage, and Indonesia has reached the final in a double line
After the first four days of group competition, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and South Korea advanced to the final four of the men's team, and Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and South Korea advanced to the top four of the women's team.
In the men's team semifinals, the Malaysian men's team defeated the Korean men's team 3-0 and the Indonesian men's team defeated the Singapore men's team 3-2. In the final, the Malaysian men's team scored 3 consecutive points with Li Zijia, Huang Zhiyong, Xie Dingfeng / Su Weiyi, thus defeating the Indonesian men's team 3-0 to win the championship.
In the semi-finals of the women's team, the Japanese team abstained due to the unwell of several players, and the Indonesian women's team won without a fight; the South Korean women's team defeated the Malaysian women's team 3-0. In the women's team final, the Indonesian women's team defeated the Korean women's team 3-1 under the leadership of world youth champion Mariska to win the Asian team championship for the first time.
Against the backdrop of each team's aim to train young teams, Indonesia reached the final in two lines and finally won 1 championship and 1 runner-up, showing the thickness of its reserve strength. In horizontal comparison, the overall lineup of the men's team is brighter than that of the women's team, and many men's singles players have come to Malaysia to compete. As the host, the Malaysian men's team has obvious advantages because it has the british champion Li Zijia and the Olympic men's doubles runner-up Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi, and it is reasonable to win the championship.
Whether the storm will promote its maturity
Last month's solo storm incident, almost every day in the reversal and change, first the Malaysian Badminton Association announced that it will not register for Li Zijia for two years, and then to the two sides to meet, until the final negotiation, the Malaysian Badminton Association and Li Zijia have their own considerations, each has its own compromise. In the end, both sides fell into the national interest and found a compromised united front.
Li Zijia said at the time: "If I need to participate in the competition, I will definitely fight for the country." In the week-long competition, Li Zijia made four appearances and won all victories. The most enjoyable of the four matches won was the first match against Xinke World Championship champion Luo Jianyou, who won quickly 21-6, 21-14. In the next three games, Li Zijia played three rounds to win, and all of them lost one set and then won two consecutive rounds, and finally led the team to win the Asian team championship for the first time at home.
Before the game, Li Zijia cut his hair short, like a young player who had just debuted, which seemed to represent his determination to start over. Although he did not reveal the emotions that had been tormented in the turmoil of the past month, we can appreciate a taste of it from the trend of constant fermentation and upheaval. After this hurdle, Li Zijia will face a similar situation to many Malaysian free agents in the future, and has to become more worried, more attentive and more attentive to everything.
Just like Momota Kendou's complete rise after experiencing the storm of the ban, will this time become a turning point for Li Zijia to go to a higher level? We'll see.
*The image in this article is from the Asian BBA