On April 30, Beijing time, the semi-finals of the 2022 Badminton Asian Championships began to compete, and China's Wang Zhiyi met with the No. 2 seed An Xianying of the tournament. The two have played each other 3 times before, and An Xianying has won the game. In today's match, Wang Zhiyi reversed after losing one set first, eliminating An Xianying 2-1 and advancing strongly to the final of the Asian Championship.
In the first set, Ann established a lead at the beginning of the game, going into a technical gap 11-5. After the timeout she continued to extend her advantage, taking the set point 20-9. Wang Zhiyi defused the first set point, and An Xianying won the first set 21-10.
In the second set, the two alternated in the first half of the lead, and after 12-11, Wang Zhiyi scored seven consecutive points to open the gap 19-11. After that, Wang Zhiyi continued to work hard and pulled back a set 21-12.
In the decider, Wang Zhiyi took a 6-1 lead at the beginning, An Xianying scored 5 consecutive points to tie, after which the two sides fell into a stalemate on the court, and after 17-16, Wang Zhiyi scored 4 consecutive points and won the tiebreaker 21-16.
In the end, after three rounds of fierce fighting, Wang Zhiyi defeated the world's No. 4 An Xianying with a reversal of 10-21/21-12/21-12.21-16. In the final, Wang Zhiyi will face the top seed and world number 2 Akane Yamaguchi.