The 2022 South Korean Badminton Masters began the first round of competition, and compared to the Super 500 Series that ended last week, the national badminton sent almost all of the main players to compete this week. In the first round of the men's singles, 22-year-old Li Shifeng won the opening red 2-1 licor host Zheng Minxian, and the mixed doubles combination Zheng Siwei/ Zhang Shuxian, Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping and the men's doubles combination He Jiting / Zhou Haodong passed. Last year's World Championships women's singles runner-up suffered from a back injury 0-2 upset to the United States' Lauren, men's doubles 2017 World Championship champions Liu Cheng / Zhang Nan lost first and then won 1-2 by the South Korean team Lee Yong-dae / Kim Jae-hyun reversed.
The national men's singles has been unstable in the Olympic cycle in Paris, last year's World Championships and this year's All England Championships best time was only the top 8, until last week's South Korean Super Tournament by 22-year-old Weng Hongyang Lick Indonesia's Christie broke the Chinese men's singles three-year championship drought. In this tournament, Two young players, Lee Shi-fung and Weng Hongyang, continued to play, Li Shifeng unexpectedly lost to Israel's Siberman in the first round of the last super tournament, the first round of the Masters was South Korea's Jeong Min-hyun, although the opponent participated in the International Open for the first time, he played with Lee Shi-fung for 3 sets, and finally Li Shifeng defeated Jeong Min-hyun 2-1 (21-14/20-22/21-10).
The women's singles field broke out a big cold, the 2021 World Championships women's singles runner-up Zhang Yiman faced the United States' Lauren Lin, the whole game was almost passively beaten, and soon went out 0-2 (19-21/17-21). In addition to defeating Thailand's sister Indanon at last year's World Championships, Zhang Yiman also defeated India's famous Sindu in this year's German competition, and his results were stable after Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao, temporarily staying in the main force of the national women's singles No. 3, and the unexpected waist injury may make the player who has just emerged pause the pace of catching up. At present, although Guoyu Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao are ranked in the top 10 in the world, they are still a breath short of Akane Yamaguchi and An Xianying, and the 3rd singles candidates Zhang Yiman, Wang Zhiyi and Han Yue all have opportunities, but they all lack breakthroughs and convincing results.
Mixed doubles Olympic champions Huang Dongping/Wang Yilu met teammates Liu Xuanxuan/Guo Xinwa in the first round, and although the young duo had worked very hard and dragged the game to the decider, there was still a collapse in the decider, and the Olympic duo advanced to the second round 2-1 (21-17/19-21/21-10). Another mixed doubles new duo, Jeong Si-hyun /Jang Shu-hyun, easily defeated South Korea's Park Kyung-hoon/Kim Yu-jin 2-0 (21-6/21-15), the first international win since the duo were paired, and it was still relatively easy from the score.
Guo yu men's doubles 1 win 1 loss, 2017 World Championship champion Liu Cheng / Zhang Nan with age, did show fatigue, in the case of winning 1 set first finally encountered the host combination Lee Long Da / Kim Jae Hyun reversal, 3 sets of the score of 21-18, 15-21, 11-21, Liu Cheng / Zhang Nan, who is already in a semi-retired state, has a poor record in a series of competitions this year, when the god is no longer brave, did not enter the top 8. Ho Ji Ting / Zhou Haodong, who started pairing in the Soup Cup last year, defeated Thailand's Thanawat / Ponta se 2-0 (21-10/ 21-18) to advance to the second round of the men's doubles.