After the Chinese badminton team ended the journey of the Korean Masters, after a 5-hour trek to Thailand, preparing for the Tangyou Cup that began on May 8, but at this critical juncture, Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Chen Yufei broke the news through social media that she was infected with the new crown during the Korean Masters competition! Chen Yufei did not isolate on the spot, flew to Thailand with his teammates, got off the plane and tested positive, in fact, during the final of the Korea Masters, Chen Yufei was already aware of it, after losing to He Bingjiao, he did not choose to shake hands, but tried to avoid contact with her, Chen Yufei's infection brought a hidden danger to the Chinese women's team defending the Uber Cup.
In the last 2 years of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the Chinese badminton team only participated in the competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the rest of the open tournaments all chose to withdraw, and the consequence of the withdrawal was that the main players' points ranking declined, and the rhythm of the game could not be found for a long time without playing, and the young players could not take over. At present, among the top 10 men's singles players in the world ranking, there is only one Chen Long who applies for ranking protection, the men's doubles is not ranked in the top 15 national badminton players, and the mixed doubles, women's doubles and women's singles are only two or two pairs of the top 10, which is difficult to form a group advantage.
After careful consideration, Guoyu still decided to risk participating in a series of Open Tournaments in 2022, but in the highest level of the All England Field rare 0 crowns ending, more team members were suspected of infection with the new crown, and then withdrew from the Swiss Open, South Korea's 2 Super Tournaments and Masters still sent some team members to participate, Weng Hongyang won the Super Men's Singles Championship, Olympic champions Huang Dongping / Wang Yilu and He Bingjiao won the Korean Masters championship. Women's singles second sister He Bingjiao in the women's singles semifinals and finals defeated the world's 4th An Xianying and the world's 3rd Chen Yufei respectively, won the second crown of the season, He Bingjiao in the game many times staged a double jump of the strong dunk, such a masculine action in the women's singles competition is very rare, with He Bingjiao's strong recovery in the second singles, the Chinese women's team defending the Uber Cup has great hope. Unfortunately, Olympic champion Chen Yufei accidentally contracted the new crown, and there are still more than half a month of Uber Cup to start playing, Chen Yufei must cooperate with treatment, as soon as possible on the premise of recovery, but also to maintain the amount of training, can not drop the state too fast.
Not only did The National Feather suffer a serious new crown invasion, foreign associations also had many people recruited, Japan's Momota Kendou, Denmark's Antonsen, Indonesia's Suka muyo, South Korea's An Xianying, Singapore's Yang Jiamin and other people have been positive, but most of them recovered in a very short period of time, South Korea's young general An Xianying was infected during the All England and Switzerland Competitions, and soon recovered and won the championship in the Korean Super Tournament, during which there was only a gap of 1 week.
Uber Cup champions will basically be between China, Japan and South Korea's top 3, if Chen Yufei can not participate, He Bingjiao once played as a single, she and a pair of Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan even if they win the first 2 sets of the game, the next 3 sets are difficult to guarantee, Wang Zhiyi, Zhang Yiman, Han Yue, Zhang Shuxian / Zheng Yu, Li Wenmei / Du Yue against the main force of Japan and South Korea can not guarantee the victory and score points. I hope that Chen Yufei will recover as soon as possible and join the defending journey of the Uber Cup.