On May 10, the 2022 Badminton Tangyou Cup entered its third match day, and a number of group stage competitions began on the same day. The men's team welcomed a second opponent in the Toms Cup group stage, algeria, an African team with mediocre overall strength. In this game, Lu Guangzu and He Jiting/ Zhou Haodong truce, Weng Hongyang ushered in the debut, and finally Guoyu sent 5 games 2-0, quickly won the battle, swept the opponent with an aggregate score of 5-0, won two consecutive wins, and advanced to the top 8 in advance. In the final round of tomorrow's group stage, it will compete with Denmark led by Arcelorn for the first place in the group.
In the first group game of the Thomas Cup yesterday, Guoyu played against france, the French team led by popov brothers, although the overall strength was average, but the brothers still caused certain difficulties to the Chinese team. In the first match, the two sides played a single match, Lu Guangzu and his brother Kristo Popov fought fiercely for 118 minutes, and finally won 2-1. The men's doubles combination of the brothers in the fifth game also brought certain difficulties to Liu Yuchen / Ou Xuanyi, who also won the three rounds of fierce battles, and finally won the total score 5-0, and Guo Yu made a good start.
In the second round of the matchup with Algeria, the pressure of the national feather is much less, the overall strength of the opponent is weak, and the number one men's singles Mameri is only ranked 211th in the world. Therefore, Guoyu rotated Lu Guangzu who played in the first game and He Jiting/Zhou Haodong in the second double, with Zhao Junpeng as the first singles, Li Shifeng and Weng Hongyang as the second and third singles, which was also the first time in the career of young player Weng Hongyang to represent Guoyu in the team event. On both sides, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi continued to play in the first doubles, and Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang played in the second doubles.
In the first match, Zhao Junpeng faced MaMeli and won 21-11, 21-15; in the second two-single duel, Li Shifeng faced Bellaby, 21-7, 21-10, continued to win two easy wins in a row; the third was a two-double duel between the two sides, Ren Xiangyu/ Tan Qiang against Larbaau / Oshef, the result was that the two took only 19 minutes, and ended the battle easily with two 21-4, and the national team score was 3-0 to lock in the victory in advance. The fourth time was a three-single showdown between the two sides, Weng Hongyang Tang Cup debut, against the 30-year-old veteran Hamek, and finally won 21-11, 21-10, also 2-0. The final fifth match was a double duel, Liu Yuchen / Ou Xuanyi against the combined Mameli / Medel, 21-8, 21-17, the fifth 2-0 quick victory, to help the national feather sweep Algeria 5-0 on aggregate.
After consecutive 5-0 wins over France and Algeria, the men's team has qualified early to the group and locked up the top 8 of this year's Thomas Cup. The Danish team in the same group also won two consecutive victories and advanced to the quarterfinals early. Tomorrow, China and Denmark will start a battle for the first place in the group, and the super singles composed of Acelon, Antonsen and Vitinhus are a crucial test for the men's singles of the national feather, and it is expected that the national feathers can have a good performance.