In the early morning of March 19, Beijing time, the 2022 All England Open Badminton Championships, which is being held in Birmingham, ended all the 1/4 finals, and in the final four of the five events, in addition to the men's singles, there are national badminton players in the other four events. One (pair) in the women's singles, women's doubles and men's doubles will each qualify for the semi-finals, and the mixed doubles Pairs Chinese duo will compete for the right to the finals in the same room, and Huang Yaqiong/Zheng Siwei and Huang Dongping/Wang Yilu, two groups of players who met in the finals of last year's Tokyo Olympic Games and Shaanxi National Games, will once again stage the strongest mixed doubles dialogue.
Lu Guangzu, the only Chinese player in the men's singles to reach the quarterfinals, withdrew before the match with India's Lakshya Sen, and Guoyu did not give the reason for the withdrawal, so that the Chinese team withdrew from the men's singles final four in the All England Tournament. Similarly, a quarter-final in the women's singles schedule, which should have been played by The First and Second Players of the National Feathers, Chen Yufei against He Bingjiao, also won because of He Bingjiao's retirement Chen Yufei did not fight. Lu Guangzu and He Bingjiao were not injured in the previous 1/8 finals, but neither explained the reason for their withdrawal to the outside world. Chen Yufei's opponent in the semi-finals will be the famous Japanese "run undead" athlete Akane Yamaguchi, who lost to her opponents in two team competitions at the end of last year, and this time she ushered in the opportunity for revenge.
In the doubles match, the national feathers performed well in this All England match. In the men's doubles quarter-finals, He Jiting/ Tan Qiang reversed the win to prevent the Indonesian team from winning the final four, facing Kannando / Mathern, He Jiting / Tan Qiang successfully achieved a reversal after losing one set 15-21, winning two consecutive sets 21-16, 21-14, thus winning 2-1 to advance. In the semi-finals, He Jiting/ Tan Qiang will face No. 2 seeds Ashan/Setiawan. Zhang Shuxian / Zheng Yu fought hard for 1 hour and 12 minutes in the women's doubles quarterfinals to play three sets, and finally won 2-1 against Thailand's Kitti Halakur / Prajonga, and in the semifinals, Zhang Shuxian / Zheng Yu will play against India's Jolly / Prera.
The top four seeds in the mixed doubles will play together in the semi-finals. The re-emerging old partner, No. 2 seeds Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong defeated Malaysia's Chen Jianming / Lai Peijun in 37 minutes with two 21-15, and the No. 3 seed and Olympic champion duo Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping spent 47 minutes to eliminate Indonesia's Jordan / Octavian Andy in 27 minutes (25-23, 21-19), and the two Chinese mixed doubles will meet early in the semi-finals, which will be the second time the two sides will meet in the competition after last year's Tokyo Olympics and Shaanxi National Games, but unfortunately it is not the final. In those two duels, the winner was the "Yellow Duck" duo Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping.
Originally, according to the arrangement of the national team, in the six months from the start of the German Open, the national doubles will carry out a series of reorganization pairings, looking for the best combination, accumulating points to improve the world ranking, "IELTS combination" should not have appeared on the list of the All England Championship. The two people working together again should be a short-term behavior, mainly considering that only the top 32 players in the All England Tournament are eligible to be directly shortlisted, if they participate in the new combination, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong are not eligible to participate, and it is a pity to lose this exercise opportunity, so the two join hands again. In short, in the future, fans will want to see the match between these two Chinese mixed doubles ace combinations, I am afraid it will not be easy.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin