Since this season, Guoyu has launched a number of new combinations in doubles, especially in men's doubles and mixed doubles, and strives to change in the Paris Olympic cycle, the men's doubles hope to achieve a breakthrough, and the mixed doubles hopes to maintain its leading position in the world badminton. The change of partners on the mixed doubles is particularly remarkable, and the combination of "IELTS" Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, who once defeated the invincible hand in the world, was once separated, and each had a new partner, and the results were also happy and worried. In the mixed doubles final of the 2022 Badminton Asian Championships that ended in Manila on the afternoon of May 1, Beijing time, the "temporary" restructured Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong found a tacit understanding and won the Asian Championship for the first time with a 2-0 victory over the old rival Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping. Whether the national feathers rearrange the championship combination and the golden pair together and compete in the Paris cycle has become the most concerned topic for fans, and of course, it is also a test question that the national feathers need to determine as soon as possible.
This Asian Championship from the past super 500 to super 1000 events, there have been reports, it was reported that it is precisely because of the epidemic that missed a number of points races of the team members as much as possible to get points, Guo Yu arranged a number of players to participate, and let some of the original doubles combination reset, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, the old partner to hold hands again, belongs to the latter situation, and in the future competition, the two may also split the pairs of their own fights, this Asian Championship should be the "IELTS group" of the song. Of course, this is only some media reports, the national feather team and the Chinese badminton association have never given an official statement, may also be holding an attitude of continuing to investigate, and there is no final answer.
In this Asian Championship, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong did not encounter challenges all the way through the barriers, and after reaching the final, they did wait for their old opponent and old teammate Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, while "IELTS" had lost to "Yellow Duck" three times in a row, including two key and most important finals at last year's Tokyo Olympic Games and Shaanxi National Games. This time Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong did not let the loss reappear, their offensive speed and tacit understanding have been restored to 90% of the peak period, and all kinds of balls have the speed at the same time, the angle is tricky, so that the opponent is completely overwhelmed. In this game, Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong won in terms of speed and change, as well as the desire to win, and the two finally won 21-17, 21-18, adding another gold to Guoyu's Asian Championships.
After consecutive defeats in the finals of the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Shaanxi National Games, and because of injuries and Zheng Siwei's marriage, the "IELTS" group has consecutively missed several major competitions held in Europe in the second half of last year, as well as several top-level tour tournaments. At the World Championships at the end of the year when he returned to the field, "Yasi", who played as the number one seed in the mixed doubles, was upset in the first round and dismal. As a result, they lost trust within Kuniwa.
After the start of this season, the rumored pairing has become a reality, of course, this is also a chance to adjust, after all, for the "IELTS" combination, they seem to have been surpassed by the "yellow duck", and there are many pairs of foreign pairs rising strongly, in this case, it is better to make some changes and adjustments, for each other can start over. So the team chose to let Huang Yaqiong and Ou Xuanyi partner, and Zheng Siwei re-paired his partner Zhang Shuxian into two pairs to fight in a mixed doubles combination with an old belt and a new one.
Huang Yaqiong and Ou Xuanyi
In the several open and points tournaments that Guo Yu participated in this year, Huang Yaqiong and Ou Xuanyi performed well, entering two open finals, but they failed to win and won the runner-up. And the pair of Zheng Siwei / Zhang Shuxian, the results are not ideal, and can even be said to be bad. Therefore, before this Asian Championship, based on the reasons mentioned above, the "IELTS combination" reappeared, re-emerged to find the feeling, and the result was really to gain the championship, and the "original match" was indeed a sharp mind, without re-running, and immediately reached the best and highest degree of tacit understanding. Of course, this has created a problem for the coaching staff of The National Feather. In the next two years of the Paris Olympic cycle, it is really difficult to decide whether the two will continue to cooperate or to treat this Asian Championship as an out-of-print version.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin