First, the Imperial Death Pit
The Chinese badminton team has become the hegemon as soon as it enters the world badminton world, and the champions of various events have won soft hands, but if you want to ask which of the five individual badminton events is the weakest, it must be the men's doubles. Men's doubles can be called the death pit of the national feather empire, and the Indonesian soup cup in the 1990s was largely a five-time game, to a large extent, once it was against us, the men's doubles scored two points was equivalent to a free gift. So to what extent it is weak, we speak directly to the data.
The first is the Olympic Games, from Barcelona in 1992 to Athens in 2004, four Olympic Games, five singles men's singles women's singles women's doubles mixed doubles national feathers have won the championship, only men's doubles, let alone win the championship, except for Li Yongbo / Tian Bingyi in 1992 won a bronze medal, since then no Chinese combination can reach the Olympic final four.
Legendary men's doubles Li Yongbo and Tian Bingyi
Then there is the World Championships, since the 1981 World Badminton United, the 1983 World Championships began to count, until 2005, a full 12 editions, the national men's doubles only by Li Tian and Li Tian won the championship in 1987 and 1989. In contrast, during this period, the men's singles won 6 championships, the women's singles won 10 championships, and the women's doubles won 11 golds, only in 1995. However, the mixed doubles is only 3 gold, which can also be seen that the national feather men's doubles resources are extremely scarce.
Finally, the All England Championship, from 1982 to 2004, a total of 23 men's doubles gold medals, still relying on the Li Tian combination to win three golds. It can even be said that in addition to Li Tian and the two, in more than twenty years, there has never been another competitive men's doubles combination.
So it can be understood why so many people like the combination of wind and cloud, of course, the first is that the two are very handsome, Jacky Cheung and Aaron Kwok combination, for the weak Chinese men's doubles, for the men's doubles that fell into a dead silence after Li Tian, the wind and cloud are like late night thunder, earth-shattering to tear apart the night.
Second, the storm has just begun
For the emergence of the wind and cloud combination, I can only say one more sentence "Tang Lao Niu X!" ”
Captain Cai YunCai was born in Suzhou in 1980, the earliest was born in singles, and even won the provincial singles championship in his youth, so he was able to join the provincial singles team. In 1999 he was promoted to the national second team and in 2000 he joined the national first team. But then in 2002, Cai Yun was found to have an extra side branch of his heart than others, and he almost retired. Until 2002, Cai Yun returned to the national team after completing radiofrequency ablation surgery. However, perhaps it is a blessing in disguise, this injury, yin and yang mistakes, so that Guo Yu has one less singles master, in exchange for a pair of the first men's doubles combination in history.
Fu Haifeng is nearly 4 years younger than Cai Yun and is a native of Jieyang, Guangdong. In 1996, Fu Haifeng entered the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Sports and Sports Technology for professional training. In 1998, he was selected for the Guangdong Provincial Badminton Team. In 2002, he performed well in the doubles competition of the National Badminton Championships and was invited by the national team to participate in the national men's doubles training, and cai Yun, who also participated in this training, came back to play doubles.
There is also a small story about the training, that is, on the eve of the end of the training, Tang Xianhu asked each team member to write down the names of the three favorite supporting players on the note. And it just so happens that the three names written by Feng Yun, who have not been paired during this period, have each other, and this golden combination has appeared in front of the world.
At that time, in the world men's doubles, South Korea had two world-class teams Lee Dong-so / Yoo Ken-sung and Kim Dong-moon / Ha Tae-kwon. Indonesia also has Wu Junming, Chen Jialiang, Xi Jit, no matter how to dismantle, no matter who pairs can cut melons and cut vegetables (Wu Someone can win the world championship with an American). Denmark also has two world-class men's doubles groups, Eriksen/Lengard and Pasquel/Rasmussen. Malaysia's Chung Teng Fook/Li Wan Hua and Chan Chung Ming/Zou Junying are also super high-calibre combinations.
On the other hand, the national feather, only a pair of Sang Yang / Zheng Bo can get their hands on it, but these two friends who know badminton should also know that it is really "messing up the Mandarin Duck Chapter" and forcibly tied together, although the strength is extraordinary, but always kill themselves internally. Although Zhang Jun, Zhang Wei and others have strength, no matter how to form a team, needless to say Indonesia, facing South Korea, Malaysia, Denmark, the men's doubles is basically a white give. In the 2002 Soup Cup semi-finals, Malaysia lost 3-1 to just rely on Xia Xuanze to fight for a point.
Indonesia has achieved five consecutive hegemonies
Therefore, for Feng Yun, as soon as he debuted, he faced a strong enemy, but at that time, except for Tang Lao, no one believed that his new disciples could grow to a higher level in the future.
In 2003, 23-year-old Cai Yun and less than 20-year-old Fu Haifeng participated in the World Championships for the first time, and the result was a blockbuster, reaching the final four. In the final semi-finals, due to lack of experience, in the case of winning the first set, he was reversed by Indonesian ace, the world champion of the year, Sigit/Chen Jialiang. However, Rao is so, the world championship final four, in the previous decade should only be 1999 Zhang Jun / Zhang Wei has reached. Therefore, the young Fengyun handed over such achievements, which is enough to make the domestic badminton scene excited, and unconsciously it was named "China's Men's Doubles Hope".
At the Swiss Open in March 2004, they won their first Open title since the pairing, while Lin Dan and Bao Chunlai won the men's singles championship and runner-up in this station, and the debut of the national F4 also gave coaches and fans a little more confidence in the upcoming Thomas Cup.
The 2004 Thomas Cup was held in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and I always believe that this is the most important event in the history of Chinese badminton, a milestone battle that breaks the world pattern and the national feathers to re-enter the peak, a name-calling battle between the first men's singles in history and the first men's doubles in history, and also marks that the era of national feathers is gone.
From 1994 to 2000, the Chinese team tang cup was invincible, and the doubles were even more embarrassing, never winning a single game during this period. Therefore, this confrontation is of great significance to Fengyun and to the entire national feather. However, it is worth mentioning that in the semi-final of last year's Su Cup, Cai team entered the big list as a doubles substitute, and in the semifinals, paired with Zhang Wei, defeated the invincible Chen Jialiang/Sigit, which is also the fame battle of Cai team, and the defense and scheduling in front of the net are vividly displayed.
Team Cai's fake moves
Back to the Soup Cup, the first single game, Lin Dan won easily against Sony. The world's second-ranked fengyun combination made a single appearance against Yulianto/Luke, but the opponent was not the strongest combination in Indonesia, and Fengyun was not soft, 2-0 easy. It is very easy to break the spell of "doubles against Indonesia is free".
In the end, this imaginary Mars hit the earth, and Kuniyu gave a loud slap to the Indonesians who were trying to defend their titles with a 5-0. The later matches do not need to be repeated, I wrote in the previous articles (https://m.toutiao.com/is/dYGyu88/?= To the Golden Generation of National Feathers: Lin Dan Fengyun Bao Chunlai (change) - today's headlines), anyway, the new National Feathers finally won back the Thomas Cup after twelve years of separation.
Tokyo defends the soup cup
But the Olympics in August pulled Fengyun, Lin Dan and Guoyu from the clouds to the ground. The Winds and Clouds team lost 1-2 to the Danish duo of Eriksen/Lengard and missed the semi-finals. This is also a point I want to mention, the wind and clouds at that time had a disadvantage, that is, the psychological quality was very poor, as long as the opponent dragged into the third set, it was basically very dangerous. In the Soup Cup final, after the first set was lost, the second set was directly defeated 15-3. But for the young two, this is not a thing, after all, the biggest capital when they are young, after all, their careers have just begun.
Second, the storm is rising
2005, in my opinion, was the beginning of an all-time high in men's doubles overall. This year, the older generation of Sigitt/Chen Jialiang, Paske/Rasmussen is still strong; the wind and cloud combination is becoming more and more mature, especially Cai Yun's defense and scheduling in the front court have begun to reach its peak; Quito and the fans' "Hen Shen" Hendra has begun to emerge; Bowie, Morganson, Zheng Jae-sung, Gu Jianjie, these future doubles world well-known names have entered everyone's vision that year. Oh, and Wu Junming, who is still leading different teammates to kill in different tournaments.
In March, the All England tournament, the wind and cloud combination will go all the way to the final, facing the 2003 World Championship champion Danish duo Pascal / Rasmussen is also not soft, and finally the 2005 All England Open Badminton Championship, ending the history of the Chinese men's doubles 14 years without the All England championship. In the World Championships in August of the same year, they lost to the Malaysian duo of Chen Chongming and Gu Jianjie and missed the quarterfinals.
These two games, although one win and one loss, have exposed a big problem in the wind and clouds. Although for the layman, the men's doubles backcourt consecutive smashes are hot and boiling, the real on-field brain is the "front-net wiper" in the frontcourt. And these two games, even if it is the Danish combination that finally loses, their tactics are also very clear, that is, to attack fu Haifeng's weak defense, not to give Cai Yun the opportunity to play in the front court. After all, Cai's frontcourt defense is really fantastic, and there are still many incredible moments to send the ball to the opponent's dead corner. And this weakness will bring them the most painful defeat of their careers in the future.
Captain Cai to the extreme
In 2006, the five men's doubles we are familiar with all appeared, "Fengyun", "Henki", "Bubble", "Jackie Chan" and "Diamond". But in my opinion, of these ten people, there were only two people who were really the ceiling of men's doubles players at that time, Hendra and Cai Yun, and the results were the same, the 2005 World Cup champion and the 2006 World Championship champion belonged to the storm, and the 2006 Asian Games, the 2006 World Cup and the 2007 World Championship champion belonged to "Henkey".
The 2008 Olympic Games became the pinnacle of the forbidden purple of these two pairs of men's doubles, the highest level in history.
For Fengyun, how important this decisive battle on the doorstep is self-evident, and for the Henki combination, they are also the most stable gold rush point of the badminton kingdom in this Olympic Games, and a big battle is about to start.
At the beginning of the final, in the cheers of the hometown father and elder, Fu Haifeng's heavy artillery and Cai Yun's frontcourt changes as promised, while the Indonesian combination seemed to be out of shape, frequent mistakes to get off the net. In the end, 21-12, the wind and cloud combination won the first set.
But at the beginning of the second set, Quito's three strange serves suddenly lost the wind and became a turning point in the game. Heng Shen finally woke up, and the Cai team began to lose the upper hand in the game with him in front of the net. And as I said above, Fu Haifeng's defense is always the weakness of Fengyun, as soon as Cai Yun can't contain the opponent in the front court and create opportunities for Fu Haifeng, the opponent begins to chase Fu Haifeng. This game is the most typical, Hendra and Quito took advantage of the low quality of Fu Haifeng's return ball to continuously score, and the game completely entered the Indonesian team's favorite hair catch rhythm.
Hendra, who was never expressionless
Here I would like to talk about why I think Cai Yun and Hendra are men's doubles ceilings. First of all, Hendra, I think instead of calling him Henshin, it is better to call him "Hen Demon", his changes are too tricky, it is impossible for people to defend, he does not like to pick up the ball, and he will not score by killing the ball, that is, to end the game within a few beats with the most tricky ball path. There is also his anti-heavenly pre-net interception ability, cultivating a frontcourt wiper is far more difficult than a heavy cannon, and Hengshen is the wiper ceiling, the tricky ball path and the first interception ability in history, almost no player can compete with him in front of the net, and the only possibility is Cai Yun. Cai's team's ball path is not as changeable as Hengshen's, but he is more stable and wise, and he can calmly resolve various situations in the face of various situations, coupled with his defensive ability against the sky and the "riot" in his bones, he is also worthy of the title of men's doubles ceiling.
Another big problem with this final is that Cai Yun is so excited, he wants to win this Olympic gold medal too much, and he is no longer calm.
In the end, the situation became one-sided, and they experienced the most painful defeat on the doorstep, watching Henki achieve the men's doubles Grand Slam.
The Cai team was beaten back in this game. After this war, the wind and cloud combination also came to a crossroads, and the silver medal has, to be honest, has created the best result in the history of the national men's doubles. A good result, a strong opponent who is almost invincible, Cai Yun is almost 29 years old, all kinds of superimposed, is it in advance or retreat? London, can they wait until then?
Unwilling to win the silver medal
To be continued
Written at the end: God knows how much I like the Cai team, (sorry Brother Bao) about the wind and clouds I really have too much to say too much want to write, found that almost 4000 words only wrote to the 08 Olympic Games, this is still in the case of me to take the world championship champion over, this is a bit of a mess, first send a previous article, the next part will soon be made up. Thank you for your support, I hope that friends who like badminton will like, comment, and pay more attention, let's talk about the ball together.