On April 16, Beijing time, the 2022 Badminton Korea Masters Women's Doubles Semifinals was in full swing. Du Yue and Li Wenmei did not continue the momentum of the winning streak, and the two lost to the host players Bai Hena and Li Youlin in three sets, and did not qualify for the women's doubles final. In this competition, the world's no. 1 team Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan were absent due to injury, and Du Yue and Li Wenmei, Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu became the hope of the Chinese team to rush gold. As the only Chinese duo to reach the final four, Du Yue and Li Wenmei tried their best in the semi-finals, engaging in a tug-of-war with the South Korean team for nearly 120 minutes, but in the end it was a failure.
After the game, the two said in an interview that the game was very hard and it was painful to lose the game. In the previous women's doubles quarterfinals, Du Yue and Li Wenmei defeated teammates Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu to get a ticket to the final four. Since several pairs of women's doubles teams from Japan and South Korea failed to compete, Du Yue and Li Wenmei's hopes of winning the championship were greatly increased. In the semi-finals, facing the impactful Bai Hena, Li Youlin, Du Yue and Li Wenmei opened with great momentum, especially after winning the victory with more round-and-forth balls, both of them would cheer each other up through angry anger.
In contrast, the combination of Bai Hena and Li Youlin, after the attack was blocked, the two were also full of loopholes in the defensive end, and were killed by two girls of the Chinese team in a row. Du Yue and Li Wenmei took a 4-point lead in the first technical suspension, but then, South Korea's Bai Ho-na and Li Youlin quickly made tactical adjustments, the Chinese combination was not timely enough to respond on the spot, and was chased by the opponent continuously, at the critical moment, Bai Hena and Li Youlin once again used the backcourt to kill the ball to score, and won a game first at 21:18.
In the second set, Du Yue and Li Wenmei stabilized their mentality, patiently and the opponent launched a multi-shot confrontation, the South Korean team made a mistake, and the Chinese team led 11:4. After that, the two sides began a tug-of-war, and the competition for each point was extremely fierce. Du Yue and Li Wenmei made a decisive move at the end of the game to win back a city at 21:19. It is worth mentioning that in just two games, the two sides have played nearly 70 minutes. In the decider, the two sides still played inextricably, each ball was more than one shot back and forth, and the exclamations of the audience came and went. Some netizens joked, "This is the longest marathon in the badminton field in the 2022 season, and it is estimated that all four people are running for 120 minutes."
In the end, Du Yue and Li Wenmei lost the third set 16:21, regrettably stopping the semifinals. From the perspective of the progress of the game, Du Yue and Li Wenmei fluctuated too much in stages, and they could not only lead the opponent by 8 points, but also be chased by the opponent for seconds and surpass the score. The two-man rollercoaster state also made the fans look terrified. Some people said that in the Paris Olympic cycle, the national women's doubles still have to look at the combination of mortal dust, and several other pairs of partners are underheated, and it is difficult to shoulder the heavy responsibility in the strong dialogue!
(Luo Treasurer)