Last weekend, the 2022 Asian Badminton Championships ended in Manila, Philippines. The Chinese badminton team won a total of three championships: Wang Zhiyi women's singles folding gui, Chen Qingchen/ Jia Yifan women's doubles summit, Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong mixed doubles gold.
Since the end of the "Lin Li era", the competitive landscape of the world badminton has begun to have a lot of uncertainty, especially in singles events, the men's singles and women's singles of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are likely to give birth to new Olympic champions, and there may even be a "new king" turning out.
There is no Chinese player on the men's singles field of the Asian Championships, and finally Malaysia's Li Zijia won the men's singles championship, some people have not even heard the name of Li Zijia, in fact, he has been regarded by many fans as the first person in the current badminton men's singles strength, and this is enough to see that the influence and attention of the current men's singles project has not been as good as before.
But in any case, this does not change the weight of the men's singles project itself in the badminton world.
Pictured: On April 30, Malaysia's Li Zijia returned the ball during the match. On the same day, in the semifinals of the 2022 Asian Badminton Championships held in Manila, philippines, China's Weng Hongyang lost to Malaysia's Li Zijia 0-2 and missed the final.
Arcelong was originally the most recognized candidate after "Lin Li" by the majority of fans as a "brother", but now, he is not optimistic about achieving the Olympic men's singles title.
On the one hand, the men's singles event is too competitive, and no one except Lin Dan has been able to achieve Olympic defense so far. More importantly, in 2024, Arcelor will also turn 30 years old, lack of systematic logistics support, and he can maintain his peak state to what extent he can maintain his peak state with his own strength.
The Tokyo Olympics' original number one favorite, Kento Momota, was devastated. This time, he was once again upset at the Asian Championships, and was eliminated by Indonesia's unknown youngsters in the first round.
The new Asian champion Li Zijia has been called Li Zongwei's successor, but some fans believe that whether he can overcome his demons is a key factor in whether the genius can truly dominate the men's singles - like Li Zongwei, Li Zijia, as the "hope of the whole village", will bear great pressure and the curse of Malaysia badminton for many years. Whether he has a big heart or not determines whether he can create new history.
Of course, China's men's singles players are not hopeless. Weng Hongyang of Guoyu reached the final four of this Asian Championship, and the momentum was good. Judging from the match between Weng Hongyang and Li Zijia in Manila, he is still learning through the competition and still has great potential to tap. Some fans suggested that since there is no absolute top player in the men's singles, Guoyu may wish to boldly promote younger rookies to see if there can be a new miracle.
In the women's singles, the Chinese badminton team ushered in a positive. In the women's singles final of the Asian Championships, China's "post-00s" young player Wang Zhiyi faced the top seed, Japan's Akane Yamaguchi. In the match, the two competed fiercely, and Wang Zhiyi lost the first set 15-21. But in the next two sets, Wang Zhiyi quickly adjusted her form and playing style, 21-13, 21-19 consecutive two cities, and finally won the 2-1 reversal, after six years for the Chinese team to fight for the women's singles championship of the event, but also won the first Asian championship title, the first BWF Super Series 1000 level event champion.
In the last Tokyo Olympic cycle, the national women's singles fell into a historical low, and the world women's singles once showed a chaotic situation of crowd competition for several consecutive years. But now that the national feather has the Olympic champion Chen Yufei pressing the line, the Mesozoic He Bingjiao is gaining momentum, and now the rising star Wang Zhiyi is rising at the Asian Championships, the national feather women's singles has formed an internal competitive situation - competing for two Olympic seats, which will inevitably translate into a strong group advantage.
After this Asian Championship, Dai Ziying's world no. 1 ranking in women's singles will give way to Akane Yamaguchi. Dai Ziying is about to turn 28 and will turn 30 years old at the Paris Olympics, and her performances in several competitions in recent years have shown that she is not a big competition player. Japan's two star-in-chief, Hope Okuhara and Akane Yamaguchi, and Spain's strong comeback Olympic champion Marin, and the three "golden flowers" of the national women's singles, who will laugh to the end at the Paris Olympic Games, it is worth looking forward to.
Editor-in-Chief: Chen Hua
图片来源：新华社 Source: Author: Yao Qinyi