The 2022 World Badminton Korea Open is about to start, and the Chinese team has once again attacked the gold medal in 5 events after a break. Compared with mixed doubles and women's doubles, in this competition, the national feather coaching team focused on the men's singles and men's doubles. In the previous Swiss and All England Open, the Chinese team reached the final in the women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles events, except for the men's singles and men's doubles, which were mediocre and never stood on the podium. Men's singles youngster Lee Soong said in an interview that the Chinese team has now arrived in South Korea, and the Open tournament will be an important warm-up for the Masters. Due to the absence of many top players in the men's singles, he is also looking forward to winning the championship.
Head coach Zhang Jun revealed that after the adjustment of the Swiss match, many of the main players of the national feather have significantly improved in physical fitness and mentality. The team will send the full team to the Korea Masters, and the Korean Open before that will give the youngster more opportunities. In particular, several newcomers to the men's singles and men's doubles need to test the results of training through competitions. Lee So-sung, the star of hope for the men's singles of the country, was pinned high hopes on by fans at this Korean Open. Talking about the current situation of the team's men's singles, Li Sufeng also seemed very helpless.
He said that the big brother Chen Long has gradually faded out of the game and may announce his retirement in the near future, while Shi Yuqi is plagued by injuries and is reimbursed in advance for the first half of the season. In this case, he and Zhao Junpeng, Lu Guangzu and others need to shoulder the heavy responsibility of winning gold in the team's men's singles event. But for now, all three of them have obvious shortcomings and cannot compete with the top players. Coming to the Korean race, Lee So-so said confidently that he would definitely go all out to win the first men's singles championship trophy of the 2022 season for Guoyu.
In this competition, olympic men's singles champion Ahn Sai Long, famous player Li Zijia, Momota Kendou, etc. did not have the opportunity to participate, and Li Sufeng ushered in a good opportunity to win the championship. At the last World Championships, Li Sufeng, Lu Guangzu and Zhao Junpeng failed to reach the men's singles semifinals, creating the worst record in team history in 5 years. In this regard, Li Sufeng admitted that he and his two teammates actually want to play a good result and revive the former glory of the national men's singles, but always at a critical moment. In addition to the men's singles, the men's doubles event also needs to raise their eyebrows in the Korean race, after the combination of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen is broken, no pair of national pairs in the men's doubles can rank among the top three in the world.
What is even more surprising is that in the current men's doubles world ranking, the highest ranking of the national feathers is actually 65th. On the contrary, the old rivals Indonesia, South Korea and Japan have several pairs of combinations in the top ten. Japanese badminton men's doubles player Keigo Sonoda once said that The Chinese men's doubles players have been going downhill, with height and voice, rough technology and weak tactical awareness, and have become a veritable "paper tiger"! Can this remark really stimulate the boys of the men's doubles of The National Feather?
(Luo Treasurer)