The 2022 Tangyou Cup began yesterday, and the Chinese women's team and the Chinese men's team made their debuts last night and this morning respectively, and both won 5-0. But the difference is that the national women's team took less than two and a half hours to win the whole victory, and the national women's team fought from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Beijing time this morning, and it took six hours to win for the first time.
Last night, the national women's team made its debut against the Australian women's team at venue 4, and the national team sent three women's singles main players and two new pairs of women's doubles. The first single Chen Yufei experienced a little fluctuation in the first set, and after timely adjustment, he defeated the opponent's single Chen Xuanyu 21-19, 21-10, and this 37-minute game also set the tone of the women's team's entire team game - fast.
After that, the new duo Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu, who played the double of the You Cup for the first time, took 34 minutes to defeat Zhong Huiqi / Angela 21-12, 21-12. In. The ensuing matches went faster and faster, with Erdan He Bingjiao, Ershuang Du Yue/Li Wenmei, and Sandan Zhang Yiman all settling the battle within 30 minutes, all of which won 2-0, and the Guoyu women's team won the opening 5-0.
In contrast, the men's team did not win easily in this morning's debut against France, especially a single Lu Guangzu, who went through 118 minutes of fighting to beat France's Popov Jr. 25-23, 24-26, 21-15. In the decider, Lu Guangzu once fell behind 11-15, but the opponent encountered physical limits and cramps, lu Guangzu scored 10 points in a row and won the game with difficulty.
Due to Popov Jr.'s doubles, the order of the matches was changed to two singles matches first. Zhao Junpeng, the second single of the national feather, who then appeared, won 21-19, 21-10. The next three matches were the second doubles, the third singles and the first doubles, with the second doubles He Jiting/Zhou Haodong and the three singles Li Shifeng all winning 2-0. The last doubles, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi, played three sets before beating the Popov brothers 20-22, 21-16, 21-16. It is worth mentioning that winning the French men's team 5-0 is crucial for the national team to advance to the quarterfinals.
Except for the two matches of the Chinese team, most of the matches that have been played in these two days have not been too intense, and only two team matches are 3-2 big scores.
In the Tang Cup group stage, South Korea in Group A defeated host Thailand 3-2 and Indonesia 4-1 against Singapore; in another match in Group B, Denmark beat Algeria 5-0; India in Group C beat Germany 5-0, Chinese Taipei beat Canada 5-0; Japan in Group D beat the United States 5-0 and Malaysia beat England 5-0.
In the you Cup group stage, Japan in Group A beat Germany 5-0 and Indonesia 5-0 against France; in the other match in Group B, Chinese Taipei beat Spain 4-1; Denmark in Group C beat Malaysia 3-2 and Thailand beat Egypt 5-0; South Korea in Group D beat the United States 5-0 and India beat Canada 4-1.
According to the schedule, the women's team will welcome a second opponent Spain at 8 o'clock Beijing time tonight, and Guoyu sent Chen Yufei, He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi three singles and Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Du Yue/Li Wenmei two doubles. The men's team will face their second opponent, Algeria, tomorrow at 3 p.m. Beijing time.