The 2022 Asian Badminton Championships ushered in the penultimate day of competition, and the mixed doubles semi-final became a repeat of this year's All England Open Badminton Final, except that this time it was Guoyu's Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping, who defeated Japan's strongest yudai Watanabe / Yusa Higashino 2-0 (21-12/24-22) after missing 5 match points. In the previous first semi-final, Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong only played 21-8 before retiring from the competition due to the injury of Indonesian star Jordan and directly advanced to the final, so that Guoyu won the Mixed Doubles Championship and runner-up in the Asian Championships in advance, and the two pairs met again after the Tokyo Olympics.
There are 4 pairs of mixed doubles in the world today that have won the big competition, and are also the top 4 in the current world rankings, namely Thailand's Dechabo/Sha Xili, China's Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, Japan's Watanabe Isayo/Higashino Yusha, of which Dechabo/Sha Xili is the champion of last year's year-end finals and world championships, and is currently ranked No. 1 in the world, while Huang Yaqiong/Zheng Siwei is the 2019 World Championship champion and the runner-up of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping is the Tokyo Olympic champion, Higashino Yusha / Watanabe won the All England Open Badminton Championships this year. Dechabo/Sha Xili, who is no. 1 in the world at this Asian Championship, chose to abandon the tournament in order to prepare for the Tangyou Cup.
In a mixed doubles semi-final that ended first, Indonesia's world-ranked no. 5 combination Jordan / Melati challenged the top seed Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong, the two sides only played 1 game, the National Yu IELTS combination won 21-8, jordan withdrew from the game injured in the second set, and the IELTS combination was guaranteed to advance to the mixed doubles final of this Asian Championship. Even if Jordan is not injured, I am afraid it will be difficult to shake the victory of Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong, and it was Huang Yaqiong / Zheng Siwei who eliminated Indonesia's Jordan / Melati 2-0 in the mixed doubles 1/4 final of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The second semi-final was an uncompromising encounter, after the most recent meeting between the two sides was the All England Final, watanabe Yudai / Higashino Yusa defeated Huang Dongping / Wang Yilu to win the championship, but the record of the match was still 10-3 in the Chinese combination. In the first set, Wang Yilu/ Huang Dongping started 5-0 to prove that the investment was rapid, and although the opponent chased 6-6 and still had a color, the Yellow Duck combination quickly won 21-12.
In the second set from the net front to the back, many wonderful from the defensive to the attack reflected the world's top mixed doubles full attack and full defense of the play, Watanabe Yudai / Higashino Yusha once made a 4-1 start, but Huang Dongping / Wang Yilu quickly caught up, the end of the two sets to 16-16, Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping once approached the match point 19-16, and ushered in 3 match points at 20-17, but unfortunately the Japanese combination stubbornly resolved, successively using the net in front of the net and the backfield attack and the national feather mistake to chase 20-20, Then Wang Yilu quickly shot to win the match point, the Japanese female player Higashino had a yarn net before Ling Li to save the match point, but Higashino Yusha then committed suicide with a serve, so that the Chinese combination got the 5th match point, Wang Yilu defended the high ball out of bounds, the Japanese combination once again dodged a disaster, and then Watanabe Yongda returned an out of bounds and then sent The 6th match point of the national feather, this time Wang Yilu decisively came to the hand in front of a beautiful net in front of the net, and finally the Olympic champion narrowly won 24-22, and met with the IELTS combination to let the national feather ensure the first gold.