On March 12, Beijing time, the 2022 German Open Badminton Championships entered the semi-finals of each individual event. In a focus battle in the mixed doubles, the Chinese duo huang Yaqiong / Ou Xuanyi defeated the opponent in two straight sets and reached the final for the first time.
For the 28-year-old Huang Yaqiong, this is her third mixed doubles partner after she has entered the main layer of national feathers, from Lu Kai to Zheng Siwei to now Ou Xuanyi, no matter who is standing next to her, she has come up with convincing performances and achievements. After winning the mixed doubles titles at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships and the gold medal at the Asian Games in Jakarta with Zheng Siwei, fans have always believed that they will stand on the highest podium at the Tokyo Olympic Games to achieve grand slam achievements. Unexpectedly, due to injuries and other reasons, they won an Olympic cycle but fell on the last two balls, and the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games and the runner-up of the 14th National Games drew a less than satisfactory end to the "IELTS" combination loved by fans.
At the 2021 World Badminton Championships, Huang Yaqiong and Zheng Siwei unexpectedly fell in the first round of mixed doubles, allowing the national badminton coaching team to make a decision to split the pair. What makes fans even more dissatisfied is that Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association and head coach of the National Badminton Doubles, directly stated in an interview that it was Huang Yaqiong's age problem that led to the occurrence of the split. For a time, Huang Yaqiong's "abandonment theory" caused a lot of controversy. Fortunately, under the pressure, Huang Yaqiong did not give up, and joined hands with her new partner Ou Xuanyi to reach the final in the German competition, fiercely punching Zhang Jun's "old age theory", proving that she was still in the year of the fight, and the future was worth looking forward to. Interestingly, because the new combination ranks low, Huang Yaqiong will play with Zheng Siwei for a short time at the All England Tournament, and whether the two can regain their former strong strength is also a major attraction.