In the early morning of Beijing time on the 14th, the 2022 German Open Badminton Championships ended in Mülheim. The Chinese team, which made its first international appearance this season, reached four finals and finally achieved a good result of 2 gold and 3 silver, and the newly unveiled doubles combination also had many pairs of outstanding performances.
Focusing on the preparation of the Paris Olympic cycle, the national doubles team rearranged at the beginning of the year and carried out a large-scale dismantling and reorganization of the original combination. At the beginning of the season's "debut", the team sent all new combinations to investigate the results of winter training and actively strive for world ranking points.
The 28-year-old doubles player Ou Xuanyi performed well, and both of his new combinations advanced to the final. In mixed doubles, he was swept in the final by last year's World Champion and top seed de Chabo/Sasili, along with his peers, Kwan Ya Joen Leuk, The Danish player Kristiansen/Bor, Tokyo Olympic champion Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, and two pairs of seeded players from Europe. In order to optimize the age structure, in the Paris Olympic cycle, Guo yu will split the mixed doubles "ace combination" Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong. The new "Ou Huang" combination performed amazingly as soon as it was unveiled, laying confidence for the preparation of the new cycle.
Ou Xuanyi (right) and Liu Yuchen in this men's doubles competition.
In the men's doubles event, Ou Xuanyi also reached the final. In the new cycle, the Chinese men's doubles launched four new pairs in one fell swoop. After Li Junhui retired, Beijing star Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi, who is 1.89 meters tall, formed the "new twin towers". In this competition, the two passed the barrier, but unfortunately lost to the Malaysian combination Wu Shifei / Nui Zudin in the final 21-23, 21-16, 14-21. He Jiting/Zhou Haodong, who had an outstanding performance in the Sudirman Cup last year, officially "debuted" this time and also broke into the top 4.
However, the new mixed doubles pair Zheng Siwei/Zhang Shuxian, the 2017 World Championships men's doubles champion Zhang Nan/Liu Cheng and the new men's doubles team Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang encountered a "round trip" in their respective events.
In contrast, the women's doubles group had a smaller change. Top seeds Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan lived up to expectations and narrowly defeated Bulgaria's Stoeva sisters 21-16, 29-30, 21-19 in the final to win the championship. The performance of the two new pairs can also be remarkable, Zheng Yu / Zhang Shuxian Lienk 2017 World Youth Championship champion Bai Hona / Li Youlin, last year's World Championship runner-up Lee Shaoxi / Shin Seung-jin and other three pairs of South Korean combinations to break into the final four, Tokyo Olympics Du Yue and Li Wenmei's "new Li Du" combination also ranked in the top 8, but lost 114 minutes.
Due to the retirement of partner Li Yinhui, Du Yue (right) started again with Li Wenmei in the new cycle.
This week, The National Feather will compete in the higher-level All England Open with the "original match", and then move to the Swiss Open, once again with a new combination. Before the military was sent to Europe, Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association and head coach of the national badminton doubles, once said that he hoped that by the end of this year, three or four pairs of players in each individual event of the team would enter the top 30 of the world rankings, laying a solid foundation for preparing for the Paris Olympic Games.
In addition, the Chinese women's singles has maintained a collective advantage in the competition, and Chen Yufei, He Bingjiao and Zhang Yiman have joined hands to break into the top 4. During the promotion process, He Bingjiao performed strongly, sweeping away Akane Yamaguchi, the no. 4 seed who had previously defeated herself seven times in a row at the Xinke World Championships, and South Korea's "talented girl" An Jieying, while another non-seeded player, 25-year-old Zhang Yiman, eliminated the previous champion Ofhu. In the final, He Bingjiao won the championship 21-14, 27-25 Against Chen Yufei. In the men's singles competition, due to the famous players Chen Long and Shi Yuqi hanging up the exemption card, only three people from Guoyu participated, and no one advanced to the top 4.
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