In the early morning of March 19, Beijing time, the All England Open Badminton Championship ushered in a super focus battle, the men's singles 1/4 final, Li Zijia challenged Momota Kendou. Malaysian rising star Li Zijia is known as the "successor of Li Zongwei", and Momota Kendou is once the world's No. 1 leader and the men's singles champion of the World Championships for two consecutive years! In the end, after 3 rounds of bitter fighting, Momota still lost!
Career match record, Li Zijia faced Momota Kendou 2 wins and 8 losses, in an absolute disadvantage, the most recent encounter, but also the Japanese famous Momota Kendou won the victory. In 2018-2019, Momota Kendou dominated the men's singles of the world badminton world, however, with a car accident and epidemic, Momota Kendou began to decline, and it is very obvious that he has already lost the world's No. 1 throne that once dominated the list, the last stop of the German Open Badminton Championships, Momota Kendou lost to teammate Nishimoto Kenta, continued to be upset by the downturn, this Year's All England Open Badminton Championships, Momota Kendou eliminated South Korean player Heo Youxi in the last round, which is a sweet revenge and recovery, at the Tokyo Olympics, Momota Hyun Doo was unable to qualify from the group because he lost to Heo Yoo Hee.
In this battle, in the face of "Li Zongwei's successor" Li Zijia, how much success did Momota Kendou recover? This is a point of view, and it is also a key to the victory and defeat of this quarter-final. Of course, Li Zijia also has his own old and difficult problems: the play is unstable, it is really wonderful when playing well, often playing the fairy ball, and when it is not played well, it is very ugly.
In the first set, Momota Kendou lost 8 points in a row, 0-8 start, which was very surprising, with Li Zijia once played back in front of the net, 1-8, Momota Kendou finally scored, avoiding greater embarrassment!
However, Momota Kendou still failed to bottom out and rebound, once 1-17, 2-18 behind, the score is extremely ugly! In the end, 7-21, the big score lost the first set, such a disparity in the score, Momota Kendou lost very ugly, completely without the style of winning two consecutive World Championships in 2018-2019, once, Momota Kendou was the fourth player in history to win the World Championships men's singles championship after Yang Yang, Lin Dan and Chen Long.
In the second set, Momota Kendou played significantly better, but Momota Kendou was still behind, 8-12! Face-to-face competitive sports is like this, you don't perform well, the opponent will be more vigorous, Li Zijia's performance tonight is very stable, and the tall Li Zijia's backcourt jump kill is also full of power.
Momota Kendou is still insisting, 11-12 bite the score, no crash! Li Zijia scored another slash from the back, 13-11, and the advantage extended to 2 points. A successful challenge was achieved, and Momota Kendou chased 12-13. Li Zijia killed the ball and went off the net, and Momota Kendou finally tied the score at 13-13. After that, Momota Kendou was still scoring consecutive points, And Li Zijia directly gave up the game, from 11-13 to 21-13, Momota Kendou scored 10 consecutive points to complete the reversal.
In the decider, Momota Kendou collapsed in the middle of the game, and finally lost 11-21, and the General Bureau was eliminated by Li Zijia 1-2, missing the top 4. However, as far as the overall performance of this game is concerned, Momota Kendou was once hung by Li Zijia in the first set, and the second set scored 10 consecutive points and staged a miracle, such a former world number one hegemon Momota Kendou still let people see signs of recovery.
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