On April 5, the 2022 BWF Tour Super 500 Korea Open began the first day of competition, although it encountered a large-scale withdrawal tide before the start of the tournament, but the national feathers still had the Olympic champion Chen Yufei led the game, the first day of the national feathers including Chen Yufei, Han Yue, Weng Hongyang three people to play, and finally Chen Yufei quickly beat the Thai player Chai Wan, Weng Hongyang "upset" to defeat the South Korean men's singles supernova Xu Youxi, and Han Yue suffered a first win and then a loss, was reversed, regrettably a round of travel out. The remaining four will be in the first round tomorrow for the rest of the tournament.
In the women's singles, Guo Yu originally planned to play in the Korean Open with 5 people, but before the start of the match, He Bingjiao and Zhang Yiman withdrew, leaving only Chen Yufei, Han Yue and Wang Zhiyi to compete. As the top seed, Chen Yufei won two consecutive sets in the first round against Thailand's women's singles master Chaiwan, and as a result, she won two consecutive sets in 21-12, 21-14 in only 36 minutes, and successfully advanced to the second round.
Han Yue's opponent was India's 20-year-old newcomer Bansod, who lost the first set 22-20 and was dragged into the decider in the second set 20-22, only to lose 10-21 and reverse the game.
In the men's singles, Lu Guangzu and Zhao Junpeng, who were originally planned to participate in the competition, have also retired from the competition, and other teams have also experienced many withdrawals, and Weng Hongyang, a rising star of national feathers, has obtained a valuable opportunity to participate in the competition. It is worth mentioning that Weng Hongyang was able to participate in the competition, with a certain amount of luck, because he originally planned to participate in the lower level of the Korean Masters next week, and in advance, he only carried out adaptive training, but after arriving in South Korea, he unexpectedly received the opportunity to participate in the Korean Open.
Although Weng Hongyang's opponent in the first round is South Korea, which has grown very fast in the past two years, he often upset many famous players in the competition, including the supernova Hee Hee Hee, who defeated Japan's first brother Momota Kendou twice. In the game, Weng Hongyang played very proactively, and finally a 21-12, 21-16, two consecutive sets, easily defeated the opponent, successfully advanced to the round of 16, the victory of this game, is Weng Hongyang in the professional competition, the first super 500 event victory, the next round he will continue to face malaysian supernova Zhan Junwei.