The 2022 Badminton Asian Championships has entered the final match day, the five individual champions will all be produced, the first women's singles final is the China-Japan showdown, by the world's 16th ranked Chinese player Wang Zhiyi, challenged the world's no. 2 Japanese sister Akane Yamaguchi, who successfully won the women's singles title in the previous All England Open Badminton Championships, showing her super personal ability, and in the semi-final Yamaguchi Akane also defeated the Indian star Sindu who eliminated He Bingjiao. However, in the past World Series, Wang Zhiyi and Yamaguchi Akane had a direct confrontation, ending with Wang Zhiyi winning, in the 2020 Indonesia Open, she and Yamaguchi Akane fought hard for three sets to win, which will also give her a certain advantage in mentality, after the start of the game, Yamaguchi Akane won the first set, but Wang Zhiyi then began to fight back to win two consecutive sets, with a big score of 2-1 to reverse Akane Yamaguchi to win the women's singles championship of this Asian Championship!
In the first game, the two players showed different strategies, Wang Zhiyi paid more attention to mobilizing Akane Yamaguchi in front and back of the field, and then looking for opportunities to take the initiative to attack, while Akane Yamaguchi showed her advantage in the confrontation of small balls in front of the net, the first four goals both sides also made a 2-2 draw through tactical scoring, and then Wang Zhiyi scored 2 points in a row to take a 4-2 lead by relying on a more active attack, but Akane Yamaguchi began to use her advantage of headwind to strengthen the attack, scoring consecutive points to surpass the score at 6-4. The two then entered a stalemate battle to alternate points, but Akane Yamaguchi relied on her very strong backcourt offensive ability to suppress Wang Zhiyi in the score and entered the middle break 11-8.
After returning to the game, Wang Zhiyi strengthened his return ball quality, but due to the wind of the field, so that his too much pursuit of the angle of the return ball errors increased, Yamaguchi Akane also followed the trend to expand the lead to 13-8, after stabilizing the mentality, Wang Zhiyi began to chase points, resolutely implement the strategy of suppressing the opponent's backcourt, scored 5 consecutive points to chase the score to 13 draws, after seeing the hope of winning, Wang Zhiyi's mentality changed, obviously a little too hasty to quickly score to get the lead, This was clearly not the best pace for her, and Akane Yamaguchi also quickly extended her lead to 19-15 and won the first set 21-15.
After the start of the second set, Wang Zhiyi returned to the strategy of suppressing Yamaguchi Akane in the backcourt, scoring consecutive points to achieve a 2-0 lead, although Yamaguchi Akane relied on her own surprise attack to score, so that the two sides returned to the same running line, but Wang Zhiyi did not change the way of play, has been suppressing the opponent on the scene, the middle game stage also achieved 11-8 into the game interval, and compared with the first set of the game, Wang Zhiyi obviously increased her own changes, which also allowed her to quickly open the score after the game restarted. And pulled back a set 21-13, dragging the game into the decider.
In the deciding round, Wang Zhiyi in the case of an unfavorable start, the tactical execution was very in place, dragging Akane Yamaguchi into the multi-shot round, playing his own control advantage, quickly overtaking the score 9-3, and 11-5 with a 6-point lead into the gap of the game, once achieved a huge 17-7 lead, Akane Yamaguchi then launched a tenacious counterattack, chased the score to 19 draws, the key ball handling Wang Zhiyi seized the opportunity, and finally locked the victory 21-19
In the semi-finals, Wang Zhiyi defeated a Korean sister Ahn Hyun-ying in the first set, and now she defeated a Japanese sister Akane Yamaguchi in the final stage reversal, so that everyone can see her strength, hoping that Wang Zhiyi, who has just celebrated her 22nd birthday, can carry the banner of China's badminton women's singles in the future!