First, break the cocoon
Before the Tokyo Olympics, the fengyun combination was both inducted into the BWF Hall of Fame, and when asked what was the most impressive game of their careers, the two invariably mentioned the home defeat of the 2008 Olympic men's doubles final.
Cai Yun said, "This game hit us very hard, even a little desperate, but it also made us realize that we had to challenge the difficulties in a braver way. Fu Haifeng said that this ball greatly affected the badminton road of the two of them later.
The fiasco at the doorstep, and the fiasco of almost no fighting back, once made Cai Yun have the idea of retiring, after all, he was almost 29 years old, but Fu Haifeng, who was only 25 years old, told him, if you quit, then I will not fight, which made Cai Yun make up his mind and set his sights on London in four years.
However, in order to cultivate new talents, the Fengyun group after the Olympic Games still experienced a short period of dismantling pairs, Fu Haifeng partnered Shen Ye, and Cai Yun partnered Xu Chen, but in the end, the results of these two pairs were not ideal. In an interview, Cai Yun said that tacit understanding is a very strange thing, and to be honest, it can't be practiced. In the end, because of this tacit understanding that could not be practiced, the fengyun combination was briefly separated and then re-paired, but this separate experience made them each slowly change.
Cai Yun was once said by Li Yongbo that the killing ball was not as heavy as his own hanging ball, before Fengyun 08 (hereinafter referred to as Fengyun 1.0), Cai Yun was often deliberately moved to the backcourt by the opponent because of the lack of threat in the backcourt, but after the 2008 Olympic Games, Captain Cai was painful and began to hone his backcourt deterrent.
For Fu Haifeng, without Cai Yun defending for him in the front court, creating opportunities for him, and also starting his own learning to organize and improve his defense, the 08 Olympic Final was used as a breakthrough to chase and play, Fu Haifeng's heart was more uncomfortable than anyone.
And when the Fengyun group reappeared on the super competition in 2009, all the national badminton fans were relieved, and the Fengyun group was not defeated by the failure, but was reborn and born to death under the grind of failure, and finally appeared in front of everyone with a stronger and more mature posture. In the 2009 All England Competition, Fengyun 2.0 completely got rid of the haze of the Olympic Games and set sail again.
In the final against the South Korean duo of Han Xiangxun/Huang Zhiwan, it was also obvious that the tactics of the Fengyun combination could be seen, with Cai Yun starting to stand in the backfield and Fu Haifeng performing his smash in the midfield. Because the simple Cai Yun hanging the ball in the front court and Fu Haifeng's backcourt heavy killing routine, as the world's first men's doubles, has long been thoroughly studied by various opponents, so from the beginning of this tournament, they have completely begun to change. What was surprising was that Fu Haifeng's heavy killing power in the front court was more deadly than it seemed to be before. And when I saw the Cai team's backcourt jump score, I couldn't help but shout "Ye Qing Knot." ”
In 2009, the whole UK won the championship
Another digression, this game is also very funny to think about, just like people who are learning a foreign language, deliberately do not speak Chinese and speak foreign languages on all occasions, this game gives me this feeling, Fengyun deliberately avoids the original way of playing, Captain Cai rushes to retreat from the backfield, Fu Haifeng desperately intercepts and kills in the front court. The final result was also satisfactory, Fengyun took the opponent 2-0 lightly, regained the All England Championship after four years, and also announced to the world that the Fengyun combination was back.
In the Su Cup in May, the scrappy Storm 2.0 wants to defend the glory of the national men's doubles and defend this trophy. In 2009, the competition of the five major men's doubles entered a white-hot situation. In the open tournaments throughout the year, "Jackie Chan" won five crowns, "Fengyun" won the heaviest weight in the whole Uk, "Diamond" and "Hum" each won three crowns, and "Bubble" also won the Korean Super Championship. Therefore, the Su Cup trip is bound to be full of crises in the men's doubles event.
Sure enough, in the semi-finals, the Chinese team met Malaysia, after the three-game three-win storm against the old rival Diamond Combination. In this match, both sides win one set in the first two sets and enter the decider. I said in the previous part that the Fengyun 1.0 mentality is not good, and it is impossible to lose every time you are dragged into the third set by the opponent, but after this Su Cup, the wind and cloud of the third set become stable and incomparable. At the beginning of the third set, Fu Haifeng showed his progress perfectly, first scoring consecutively in front of the net, then scoring a heavy kill, and then creating opportunities like Cai Yun's fake action hanging ball. But the diamond combination is also at its peak, fighting all the way to 21-21, and finally Cai Yun's continuous mobilization grasps the initiative, the wind and clouds win 23-21, and the picture of Cai Yun kneeling and celebrating after the victory has also become a classic in memory.
And in the final against the South Korean team, there is no suspense, the peak showdown between the Fengyun combination and the Jackie Chan combination is another peak duel that has played three rounds, and the Fengyun 2-1 victory over the Jackie Chan combination also helped the Chinese team win the Su Cup 3-0. And the decider was once 11-14 behind, and finally played a 21-19 reversal. (Why don't I write more here, because I can't wait to write about the greatest game of Feng yun and Jackie Chan next.) ）
The duel between Feng Yun and Jackie Chan always makes people's blood boil
2. Baptism
In India in August, the most important event after the Olympic Games, the World Championships, arrived as scheduled. In the men's doubles field, although the humming combination announced its withdrawal before the game, bubbles, Jackie Chan, diamonds, and storm clouds gathered together. At the 2006 World Championships, the Fengyun combination ended the embarrassment of not having a championship in the 17-year World Championships of the men's doubles with five 2-0s. This time, the more mature storm is facing more difficult challenges. In the semi-finals, they defeated Malaysia's Ratifo/Tazzari 2-1 to reach the final, while on the other side, the diamond combination and the Jackie Chan combination also killed in the dark, playing 3 innings, and finally Jackie Chan reached the final.
In this game, compared with the All England match, the combination is a little less deliberate and rigid, and the technical and tactical changes are fully mature. In particular, Fu Haifeng's frontcourt overhead blockade has been "perfectly cultivated", and the combination of Cai Yun's backcourt killing ball and hanging ball is also more perfect, and the fake action is extremely confusing. However, the opponent Jackie Chan also made rapid progress in this year, and the wind and cloud combination did not get much benefit, and the two sides fought in two sets, and the two sides played a 1-1 draw.
The tiebreaker that followed was one of the most ups and downs in the history of the World Championships. At the beginning of the game, the wind and cloud combination sent a few mistakes, and then the captain began to threaten, the most intuitive feeling of this game may be that the captain is invincible in front of the net, super fast lateral speed, tricky and changeable landing point and the iconic wiper continuous interception, even if it is as strong as Li Longda, this game in front of the net confrontation is also inferior.
Cai Yun's pre-net fake action
But in this game, Fengyun was more nervous than the opponent, there were many active mistakes, which also led to the score being pulled away, until Li Longda saved the ball out of bounds, Fengyun only won the first championship point of the game 20-19, Cai Yun zhen arm celebration, thinking that it was finally over, but everything had just begun.
Zheng Zaicheng and Li Longda jumped consecutively to save the first match point, and Uncle Zheng after scoring was also crazy to celebrate. It can be seen that the physical strength of both sides has reached its limit at this time, but the spirit is extremely excited.
Subsequently, Li Long's law of mistakes at key moments began to play, and a mistake in the judgment of the backcourt ball, 20-21, was given to Fengyun the second match point of this game. But the tenacious South Korean duo relied on Lee Longda's consecutive net blocks to save the match point again, and then caused Cai Yun to return to the net, 22-21, The Jackie Chan combination won the match point. But Fengyun also withstood the pressure, Fu Haifeng boldly received the serve to save, Zheng Zaicheng fell to the ground and failed to receive the ball, 22-22, the two sides drew again. At this time, Lin Dan in the stands had already clenched his fists nervously.
Then it was a very exciting multi-beat, both sides played until exhausted, until Fu Haifeng stumbled back the ball out of bounds, Li Longda and Zheng Zaicheng raised their arms to celebrate, 23-22, Jackie Chan's second match point of the match. But Cai Yun made a heavy kill in front of the net, and once again saved the match point, 23-23. At that time, I was already trying to change the station, and I was too nervous.
Then the Cai team is really a big heart, in this case stealing the backcourt (in the future this move also became the cai team's signature, the more critical the more effective) Zheng Zaicheng could not save, 23-24, the third match point of the game. But Jackie Chan once again saved the match point, and Lin Dan in the audience nervously wanted to leave his seat, but was stopped by Xie Xingfang.
The next goal, Li Longda, served too far from the waist, and directly sent it to Fengyun's fourth match point, 24-25. It was another consecutive draw in front of the net, the ball was out of bounds, and the two sides were once again on the same running line. Fu Haifeng also celebrated passionately after pressing down in front of the net to get the fifth match point. But it was still saved by the tenacious Korean combination, 26 draws.
Both sides have really reached their limits, and they are supported entirely by will. Li Longda returned the ball out of bounds, the sixth match point of the whole game. The nervous Fengyun even made the wrong serve, but as the opponent returned the ball to the net, the Fengyun combination fell to the ground. After three years of winning the World Championship championship, after the baptism of this protracted battle, a fengyun combination with mentality, technology and physical strength has reached the peak was officially born.
After the 28-26 bitter battle to win the championship, the wind and clouds roared in the sky
Third, brilliant
After that, everything was logical, and the wind and cloud combination reached the peak of history with Kuniyu after this war. At the 2010 World Championships, the already world champion vowed to achieve the first triple crown in history. Their final opponent was a Malaysian diamond duo, Tan Man Hung /Koo Kin Kit. The previous four events have been completed, and the national feather has won the championship, so for the wind and cloud, this game has another layer of pressure, in the 1987 world championships, the national feather has created a miracle of hardware, this time, the wind and cloud also bear the hope of recreating glory for the national feather. But they withstood the pressure, and in the case of losing a set first, the wind and cloud combination tenaciously completed the reversal and successfully defended the world championship. In this game, Fu Haifeng also played the fastest ball speed in the world at that time.
Since 2010, the combination of wind and cloud in London has entered the strongest state, the open, the soup cup, the Su Cup, the Asian Championship, various championships have won the soft hand, in the 2011 World Championships, once again encountered the Jackie Chan combination, the wind and cloud soldiers did not bloody blade to eliminate the opponent, the final final, it was 2-0 light opponent, the wind and cloud combination world championship three consecutive championships, four crowns crowned the king.
Fu Haifeng held aloft four fingers and looked at the world
Finally arrived in London, perhaps in order to retain the state of strength, last year's whole year of chopping melons and chopping vegetables in the first half of the Year did not win the Open Championship in more than half a year before the Olympic Games, but their strength in all aspects reached the peak state.
This Olympic Games is happy for the national badminton fans, we remember Li Xuerui's sudden rise, remember the doubles queen Zhao Yunlei became the first player to win two gold medals in the same Olympic Games, and remember the peak showdown between Lin Dan and Li Zongwei. Instead, in the men's doubles event, which guoyu had never won a gold medal in the Olympic Games, the fengyun combination won the championship with absolute dominance. Because Hendra failed to participate, after the Jackie Chan team was out of the semi-final, even I felt that this final did not need to be watched. The result was also the same, 2-0 victory over the bubble combination, the wind and cloud combination easily won the championship, and finally achieved a doubles Grand Slam, and no longer disputed to become the strongest men's doubles combination in the history of badminton.
The three World Series in 2010, 2011 and 2012 won the hardware, but the other four individual events are not the same person, even if the strong lin dan also lost the 2010 world championship. Only the wind and clouds, coupled with the 2009 World Championships, in the fiercely competitive men's doubles field, achieved a four-game world series championship that was estimated by no one before. It can be said that the dominance of the London cycle is the strongest in history.
London Classic Moments
Fourth, the curtain is closed
However, no matter how invincible it is, it cannot defeat time, and after the Olympic Games, the obsession that has been holding on to the wind and clouds has finally been resolved, and years of high-intensity combat have scarred the two. In particular, the 32-year-old Cai Yun's form inevitably began to decline, and they lost to the comeback Ashan/Hendra at the 2013 World Championships, missing out on a four-game winning streak. In 2013, Sudirman Cup was an unprecedented loss of two games.
Finally, in September 2013, Li Yongbo confirmed that the Fengyun group officially dismantled the team, after all, Cai Yun was three and a half years older than Fu Haifeng, which was exactly an Olympic cycle, and for Rio, the fengyun group was also inevitable.
In the 2014 Asian Games doubles event, the fengyun combination once again returned home, and finally failed to win the only regret of his career. And it was also after this that it was announced that the wind and cloud combination will only appear in the team competition, and the individual event pairing will become history.
The subsequent Asian Games team competition was the final outbreak of the wind and cloud combination. Chen Long lost to Sun Wanhu, a pair of young Zhang Nan/Xu Chen also lost to the opponent, the veteran team member Lin Dan men's single single single scored a point, facing the unfavorable situation of 1-2, the wind and cloud combination, especially Cai Yun dragged the legs that were obviously heavy and slow, and fought hard to win this key point in three sets. However, life is always unsatisfactory, and in the end, the efforts of Fengyun and Lin Dan failed to exchange for a shocking reversal, and Guoyu eventually lost to the Korean team.
The semi-final of the 2015 Su Cup is the real sense of the Fengyun group. But just like the end of the hero is tragic, the side of the battle is Hendra, who makes the wind and clouds painfully complete the great change, but the partner becomes Ashan. And this game is equivalent to taking the initiative to give up this point, dismantling the main force Zhang Nan / Fu Haifeng, in order to protect Zhang Nan's physical strength in the mixed doubles. In the end, Fengyun lost 0-2, and there was no storm on the badminton court since then.
In Rio 2016, Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan reached the final, and in the words of the commentary, "he simply played a combination of wind and clouds." In the end, Fu Haifeng achieved the miracle of defending his olympic title, 2 Olympics and 4 World Championships, becoming the greatest male doubles athlete in history. Zhang Nan also achieved a mixed doubles men's doubles grand slam.
For Fengyun, a sentence that Cai Yun himself said was the best praise for them. "What is a leader? They are always meticulous in good times, bravely shoulder heavy burdens in peaceful situations, and turn the tide in adversity. "For a whole decade, Fengyun carried all the honor and disgrace of the weak men's doubles of the national feather on their shoulders, and in these ten years they were the mainstay of the national feather and the leader of the national feather.
Forever National Feather F4
How fortunate it is that Guoyu has you!
Written in the end: Rio Olympics victory I did not write much, because in my concept, the wind and cloud combination is the wind and cloud combination, even if Zhang Nan Fu Haifeng has achieved much success in pairing, I still feel a little strange, maybe this is the nostalgia, after all, the wind and cloud and the golden generation of national feathers together, constitute my most beautiful memories of badminton. The whole text is subjective, if there is any impropriety, please criticize and correct. Also welcome friends like more like comments collection plus attention, let's chat about the ball together. By the way, you can see who will play the next article in the comment area.
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