In the women's singles final of the 2022 Asian Badminton Championships, 22-year-old Guoba's 3rd singles Wang Zhiyi defeated Japan's Akane Yamaguchi, who is about to reach the top of the next world ranking, 2-1 (15-21/21-13/21-19) to win the most weighty women's singles title in her career. This is not the first time this season that The two players in the best form of The National Women's Singles, An Xianying and Akane Yamaguchi, He Bingjiao also won the championship at the German Open, and the Olympic champion Chen Yufei won the championship, Wang Zhiyi copied the brave and magical scene of the sister.
Wang Zhiyi, who is currently ranked 17th in the world, is the third main force of guoyu after Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao, but her results in the competition are lackluster and basically unconvincing. Wang Zhiyi has suffered a round of travel in a series of open tournaments this season, and the prospects of this Asian Championship are not optimistic about the outside world, but Wang Zhiyi has stepped into the final field step by step, especially in the semi-finals to break through herself and defeat South Korea's no. 4 youngster An Jieying, adding confidence to Wang Zhiyi's final journey.
Akane Yamaguchi and Ahn Akira won all the major competitions after the Tokyo Olympics, Akane Yamaguchi was the double champion of the World Championships and the All England Championships, Akane Ann won the year-end finals, the next world ranking Akane Nakaguchi will replace Dai Ziying as the world women's singles No. 1, this game Yamaguchi Akane is determined to win, she narrowly defeated India's Sindu in the semifinals.
In the first set, Wang Zhiyi and Akane Yamaguchi were tightly matched, from 6-6 to 13-13, during which Akane Yamaguchi once led by 5 points in the middle of the game but was quickly equalized by Wang Zhiyi, and at the end of the innings, Yamaguchi Akane's physical advantage was fully displayed, relying on the undead "Scud" to dissolve Wang Zhiyi's landing point movement and attack one by one, and finally Yamaguchi Akane won the set 21-15. In the second set, Wang Zhiyi was not affected by the loss of the first set, and soon took a 10-4 big lead, Yamaguchi Akane scraped her knee because she fell to the ground to save the ball, and applied for a medical timeout, fortunately, Wang Zhiyi was not affected by the interruption of the game, 20-11 won 9 innings, Yamaguchi Akane pulled back 2 points after Wang Zhiyi won 21-13.
In the decider Wang Zhiyi led 7-4, Yamaguchi Akane applied for a medical suspension for the second time, this time requiring the doctor to bandage the wound injured in the previous inning, Yamaguchi Akane was injured and unstable, Wang Zhiyi took an 11-5 lead, and The Vietnamese More Courageous changed the score to 17-7, the tenacious Yamaguchi Akane requested a medical suspension three times at the end of the game, and then tenaciously chased 19-19, fortunately, Wang Zhiyi was firm in tactics, and the backfield landing point was accurately pressed to get the match point, and then Yamaguchi Akane played back the net before, Wang Zhiyi won the championship.
Although the Chinese badminton women's singles won the Tokyo Olympic Championship by Chen Yufei, but have to admit that now the women's singles field is full of flowers, Chen Yufei, Dai Ziying, Yamaguchi Akane, An Xianying, He Bingjiao, Xindu and even the comeback Ma Lin have the strength to stabilize the championship, the Chinese women's singles in the Tokyo Olympic cycle has been suppressed by various fierce opponents, in a significant disadvantage, after the beginning of 2022 He Bingjiao won 2 open championships, at this time Wang Zhiyi won the Asian Championships, the Chinese women's team gradually found the group advantage of the former hegemon, Hopefully, this is not a flash in the pan and a successful defense at the next Uber Cup.