In the early morning of March 21, Beijing time, one of the most important international badminton events in 2022 , the All England Open came to an end in Birmingham, and the Chinese badminton team only won two runners-up in all five individual competitions, which was much more regressive than the results of the German Open held a little later, and even failed to win the championship in the mixed doubles event that has been dominating the international badminton world, exposing some problems. However, in the cycle of the Paris Olympics, exposing problems earlier is not a bad thing, and there is still enough time to improve, improve and make up.
Last year, from the Tokyo Olympics to the Sudirman Cup, to the Tangyou Cup, to the World Championships, a series of international badminton competitions were concentrated, so that only three super open tournaments (1000) this season can be counted as the top competitions, these three competitions are the All England Championship, the Indonesian Open and the China Open, these three events have the highest level, the highest level of participating athletes, the highest points and event prize money, far from the German Open (300) like the event comparable, Therefore, it has also been highly valued by various badminton powers.
Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping
In this All England competition, The National Feather only reached the final in two individual events, namely women's doubles and mixed doubles, and the result was to fall before the finish line. Mixed doubles Olympic champions Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping lost 0-2 to Japan's Watanabe Yudai / Higashino Yusa combination, which has lost twice in a row against this pair of opponents. In addition, the new women's doubles team Zhang Shuxian / Zheng Yu also lost 0-2 to a pair of Japanese players Naoya Matsuyama / Chiyo Shida in the final, who is also a new partner of Japan. In other events, The National Women's Singles Olympic champion Chen Yufei lost in the semi-finals, losing for the third consecutive time to Japan's Akane Yamaguchi, who is also the women's singles champion of the All England Championships. In addition, He Jiting/Tan Qiang of the Chinese men's doubles reached the final four and failed to reach the final, and the men's singles did not enter the final four.
From the performance of the All England Championship and the previous German Open, it can be seen that the men's singles in the five individual events of the national feather is the biggest weakness, and the subsequent lack of competition is weak, not to mention the reasons why Chen Long and Shi Yuqi did not participate, even if these two are still the most representative figures in the Chinese men's singles to participate in the United Kingdom, no one can say that they can win the championship or even enter the final four, which can be concluded from the results of a series of competitions at the end of last year that Chen Long has passed the peak earlier, and Shi Yuqi has been injured continuously and has not been stable enough. Although the women's singles Chen Yufei won the Olympic championship in Tokyo, she is not invincible, at least Akane Yamaguchi is her bitter master.
Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan
Of the three doubles events, mixed doubles has always been a sport that Guoyu is proud of, but this time the All England Tournament also encountered opponents. "IELTS" Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong combination is only a temporary re-emergence, in the future I am afraid that I will no longer form a team, it is bound to be dismantled and regrouped with other players, and the Olympic and National Games champion Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping also encountered an opponent this time, two consecutive defeats to Japan's No. 1 mixed doubles combination, this defeat sounded an alarm bell for them, at least the psychological advantages accumulated before no longer exist. The women's doubles national feather has the world's strongest combination "Fan Chen", this time Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan were eliminated prematurely due to injury is somewhat accidental, but in the same way, they do not have the absolute strength to sweep other countries, and the failure to win the gold medal in the Olympic Games is proof. The weakest national feather in the doubles event has always been the men's doubles, this time is no exception, it can be seen that two consecutive open tournaments, no matter how to split the pairs and reorganize, they do not have the strength to win the championship, each game must rely on tenacious struggle to win the victory, very difficult.
But fortunately, there are very few competitions this year, and there are still two years to go before the Paris Olympic Games, and the national feather has enough time to adjust, I believe that there is a foundation, there is a huge training mechanism for young players, and there are the best teams of various types as a guarantee, and the national feather will still be the best badminton team in the world, and it will not disappoint the fans.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin