The Asian Badminton Championships kicked off yesterday in Manila, Philippines, the second time in three years since the end of April 2019, that the Asian Championships have been upgraded to the Super 1000 tournament equivalent to the BWF Tour.
The first two match days were played in the men's singles qualifier and the first round of five individual events, and the "wind" on the field became a common problem for many players.
Li Shifeng broke through Lakshya, and Feng Yanzhe/Lin Fangling narrowly won
The 2019 World Youth Championships mixed doubles champions Feng Yanzhe / Lin Fangling are playing together again after 906 days in international competitions, and they showed their desire for competition and victory in yesterday's competition, narrowly defeating Malaysia's Hui Bangrong / Xie Yiqian 21-23, 21-12, 22-20. In the second round, they will challenge Indonesia's Jordan Melati.
Lin Fangling said that she has not played an international game for more than two years and is very excited after playing. Feng Yanzhe was happy that he could play something he trained, biting down one point at a time. When asked about the difficulties on the field, Feng Yanzhe pointed out: "The biggest challenge on the field is the direction of the wind, there are always some irregular balls and irregular winds, which is a bit uncomfortable. ”
In the men's singles focus battle at noon today, Li Shifeng and Lakshya, the old rivals of the youth competition, met again. Previously, the two sides had met 4 times, and Li Shifeng had only won once at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. Recently, Lakshya has made rapid progress, while Li Shifeng has performed mediocrely since the beginning of spring. In the match, the two sides fought to the decider, Li Shifeng scored 7 consecutive points to tie when he was 10-17 behind, and finally won the game 21-19, achieving a big reversal.
At the moment of winning, Li Shifeng was very excited, and he described the victory as "incredible". He said: "It's been a long time since I felt so hard to win a game, I'm excited. I think the opponent can't change, can change themselves, how much state can be taken out depends entirely on themselves, so I hope to do myself well first, and pass the level of myself first. ”
"IELTS" combined to fight, "irregular wind" into trouble
It wasn't just Feng Yanzhe who felt the wind blowing, but many players mentioned this issue after the game. Like Lei Lanxi, who participated in the international tournament again after more than two years, he broke into the main tournament after winning two consecutive victories in the qualifying round. But in the match against the Hong Kong player, he lost consecutive points in the second set to lead 9-1, could not control the ball under the influence of the wind direction, lost a set 13-21, and fortunately won the game 2-1.
Similarly, the "IELTS" combination, which played together again, did not win easily in the first round, and they narrowly defeated the Thai combination of Ratchapol/Jeni 21-16, 22-20. After the game, Huang Yaqiong said that the wind direction of the venue was very large, and she did not do well in the accuracy of the shot. Zheng Siwei also said that the first game caused many unnecessary mistakes due to the factors of the venue.
The Chinese team sent 4 men's singles, 4 women's singles, 3 pairs of men's doubles, 3 pairs of women's doubles and 3 pairs of mixed doubles to participate in this time. The first round of matches is not over, the singles group currently only Li Shifeng and He Bingjiao win the promotion, Han Yue lost to The Indonesian teenager Ke Mang, Sun Feixiang will challenge Li Zijia later, Lei Lanxi vs. Changshan Gantai, Weng Hongyang vs. Zheng Jiaheng, Zhang Yiman vs. Mariska, and Wang Zhiyi vs. Busanglan.
Two of the three pairs of men's doubles advanced to the Round of 16, with Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi and Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang both winning 2-0, and He Jiting/Zhou Haodong losing to Malaysia's Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi after three sets. In the women's doubles, Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan successfully took revenge, defeating the South Korean women's doubles Zheng Na'en / Kim Hye-jeong, Du Yue / Li Wenmei bye, directly advancing to the round of 16; Zheng Yu / Zhang Shuxian later played against an Indonesian pair. The mixed doubles 3-pair pairs all won to advance, including Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong and Feng Yanzhe/Lin Fangling.