Not long ago, I wanted to find out on Weibo who left the most impression on everyone at the (previous) badminton world championships, and the results of the "survey" showed that in addition to the well-known Lin Dan Li Zongwei, there was also the wind and cloud combination of Zeng Ling stadium, that is, Fu Haifeng and Cai Yun, a strong partner.
I believe that many people remember that the century battle between "Fengyun" and "Jackie Chan" in 2009 can be described as a swinging intestine and gripping. Today, I will take you to review the duo of appearance and talent in this feathering altar, Fengyun.
If life is only as it first sees
The Group was formed in the second half of 2002. In the early days of becoming partners, they were not as tacit as people imagined, there were frictions, and there were contradictions, but fortunately, the personalities of the two were complementary, and after saying everything, the cooperation between the two finally entered a higher level.
They have won the National Open several times, and won the 2009, 2010, 2011 World Championships, becoming the deserved triple crown, and later won the badminton men's doubles title at the London Olympic Games in 2012. They are the strongest men's doubles duo born in China after Li Yongbo and Tian Bingyi.
2002 was an unusual year for Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng. That year, Cai Yun changed from singles to doubles, and Fu Haifeng was also called to the national team by men's doubles coach Lu Hengwen due to his outstanding performance in the national championships.
The process of their partnering is also very interesting. At that time, the men's doubles held a big training camp, and the coach asked each person to write three people on the note who wanted to partner the most. According to Fu Haifeng's recollection, his first choice was his provincial team partner, followed by Cai Yun. And among the three partners Cai Yun picked, there was also Fu Haifeng. In this way, among the more than 20 people in the training, both of them chose each other, and this side by side is more than ten years.
Shoulder the heavy responsibility to pick the beams
Their partner actually had a very heavy responsibility at the time. At that time, after the Li Yongbo/Tian Bingyi duo won the World Championships men's doubles championship twice in 1987 and 1989, the Chinese men's doubles never won the real world championship again. In the situation of singles dominating the world for a long time, the men's doubles is the biggest weakness of the national feather in the past 10 years.
Men's doubles opponents are around the world, and it is very difficult for Chinese players to return to the top of the world. It was not until the 2006 World Championships in Madrid that Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng easily defeated the English duo of Clarke/Blair to help The National Feather win the men's doubles gold medal at the World Championships after a gap of 17 years.
2006 World Championships in Madrid
Men's doubles champion, which the media called a "hug spanning seventeen years"
Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng are called the combination of wind and clouds, one is because the two have made great achievements in battle, and the other is the harmonic sound of the names of the two, "Yun" is the same as "cloud", "peak" is the same as "wind", so it is called fengyun.
In the badminton world, it is generally believed that there are four pairs of the world's top men's doubles players, also known as "TOP4":
Fengyun Group (Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng of China)
Diamond Set (Gu Jianjie/Tan Man Hong of Malaysia)
Makis/Hendra in Indonesia
Jackie Chan Duo (Jeong Jae-sung/Lee Yong-dae from South Korea)
Stand up after defeat and don't give up
In the men's doubles final of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Fengyun combination lost to the then world number one Quito/Setiawan and lost the gold medal at home, which was a bit of a pity. At that time, Cai Yun had a retreat, because Cai Yun was nearly 29 years old, and he was definitely a veteran in the men's doubles project that required a high degree of concentration. So the biggest problem he faced at that time was whether to retreat or stay.
Fu Haifeng is 25 years old, still a golden age, but he said: "If you retire, I also plan to retire." After all, we have grown up together, achieved a lot of achievements together, and know each other very well, and we should advance and retreat together. Perhaps it was Fu Haifeng's persistence that made Cai Yun decide to stay and fight for another four years. Cai Yun said: "He (Fu Haifeng) once said that if I retire he will not fight, he is younger than me, and his physical condition is also very good, so I can't give up lightly."
"Let's go to London together."
This has become their new goal. It turns out that not quitting is the right choice, and the failure of the Beijing Olympics is not the end of the legendary road of the two, but the beginning. Fate seems to have played a big joke on them, and after that, the two have opened the door to a new world with their own efforts.
In March 2009, they won the All England Open Badminton Men's Doubles title again after 2005 and successfully defended the Sudirman Cup with China in May.
Time came to the final of the 2009 World Badminton Championships, the "Wind and Cloud" combination in the "Jackie Chan" combination to fight a decisive battle, in the decider score battle to 20-20, two national featherweight main players who have experienced defeat in the world's top competitions many times stabilized their positions, did not lose their breath in 6 consecutive rounds of saws, and finally won 28-26.
"My dream, every morning I wake up, knocks on my heart and tells myself that the road to success is still very long..." At the Spring Festival Gala of the national team in 2007, Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng sang a song "Young Battlefield", a song that expressed the deepest voice in their hearts.
The 2012 London Olympics were the long-awaited highlight of the two men,who wanted to make history in this event.
Cai Yun: In Beijing in 2008, my memory is a patch of red, a red flag in the stands and a red face of people.
Fu Haifeng: When the last ball landed, my mind went blank. I walked over and picked up the ball and left it until now.
Hong Gang once said: "I only pay attention to three people at the London Olympics, Li Zongwei and Cai Yun Fu Haifeng, who have been on this field for ten years, and I hope they will realize their dreams with gold medals." ”
Fortunately, this time the combination did not disappoint itself, after successive victories over the diamond combination and Bowie/Morganson, they won the gold medal and became the first men's doubles Grand Slam combination in history to combine the World Cup, the Thomas Cup, the Sudirman Cup, the World Championships, and the Olympic Champion.