The finals of the 5 events of the 2022 Badminton Korea Masters have all ended, and in the end, the Chinese team participating in the full main team has won 2 gold and 3 silver results. Guo Yu won the championship and runner-up in the women's singles and mixed doubles events, but in the finale of the men's doubles final, the men's doubles combinations Ou Xuanyi and Liu Yuchen, who represented the Chinese team, performed poorly, and finally lost two consecutive sets to the host players Kim Ki-jong and Kim Sha Lang, which had no chance to draw a satisfactory end for the team. After the loss of Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi, the national men's doubles still did not have a gold medal in the 2022 season.
Head coach Zhang Jun said that the Chinese team has made great progress in several pairs of men's doubles, and he is still full of confidence in the boys. In the previous semi-finals, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi swept through the South Korean team of Choi Ri-gyu and Kim Won-ho to advance to the final. In the final, Liu Yuchen, Ou Xuanyi and the winning favorites Kim Ki-jong and Kim Sha Lang met. Due to a certain gap in overall strength, and the two sides are more compatible in the style of play, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi of the Chinese team were suppressed by the opponent throughout the game, and finally did not qualify for the men's doubles championship of this station.
Judging from the progress of the game, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi almost did not pose a threat to the South Korean combinations Kim Ki-jong and Kim Sha Lang. The two young men of the Chinese team are tall and long-armed, which belongs to the technical characteristics of holding high and playing high, while the South Korean pair is strong and strong, and is best at the playing style of flat blocking. Previously, the two sides did not have many encounters, and they did not understand the line and tactical system. In the game, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi had an advantage in the high-pressure ball link in the backcourt, but there was a certain gap with Kim Ki-jong and Jin Shalang in terms of hair and consistency.
Some fans said that the two players of the Chinese team are big and tall, and in terms of speed and reaction, this pair of South Koreans won completely. Although he failed to win the third gold medal for Guoyu, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi said in an interview after the game that this was a very high start, and there was indeed a problem with the opponent, so they played very passively on the field. In the future training and preparation, the national feather men's doubles coaching team needs to carefully study how the tall combination responds to the short and flat combination. Ou Xuanyi and Liu Yuchen are a new pair of partners of the Chinese team in the Olympic cycle in Paris. After the Tokyo Olympics, Li Junhui chose to retire, and Liu Yuchen and rising star Ou Xuanyi became the new twin tower combination.
The two performed decently in the previous matches, and there was a gap between them and several high-level combinations such as Indonesia and Japan. The combinations of He Jiting and Tan Qiang, Liu Cheng and Zhang Nan, who represented Guoyu in the Thomas Cup, also failed to win the championship in the top international competitions. Therefore, the men's doubles event is still the biggest problem for the national team in this Olympic cycle. In this Korea Masters, the Chinese team ended with a result of 2 gold and 3 silver, which was comparable to the host Korean team. Since several other strong teams did not play, the overall competitive intensity and gold content of the game have decreased in comparison.
(Luo Treasurer)