Since the Chinese men's badminton team first participated in the Thomas Cup in 1982, in 40 years, only two times have failed to reach the podium, once in 2016 and the other this year. However, in the 2016 Kunshan Thomas Cup event, although the overall performance of the national men's team was not good, Lin Dan scored a singles score, at least the loss was not so ugly. This time the situation was completely different, And Kuniwa lost all three battles and was beaten without the ability to fight back. Of course, the defending champion Indonesia men's team as a whole is strong and should be the strongest badminton men's team at this stage, but the performance of the national badminton men's team is also an indisputable fact.
After losing this game, The International Yu Cup stopped in the top 8, equaling the worst record in history and setting a new 40-year record of shame. After the game, the fans were furious, angrily criticizing the official Microblog of the Chinese badminton team, and also pointed the finger at Zhang Jun, the head of the national feather, and Chen Yu, the coach of the men's team, and even shouted for the two to hurry up and leave class. To be fair, Zhang Jun's idea of reforming the badminton team is good, but after the specific implementation, the result is disappointing. At this stage, the talent of national feathers is not picked up, coupled with Lin Dan's domination of the badminton world for many years, and Chen Long has successfully taken over the baton, resulting in the men's team's work of cultivating new talents stagnating, and now it is completely reduced to a second- and third-rate team.
Therefore, Guo Yu's record in recent years has continued to decline, Zhang Jun needs to take the main responsibility, his work has indeed had problems, and all his responsibilities cannot be shirked. As for the coach of the men's team, Chen Yu, he needs to take secondary responsibility, and his most criticized place is that his on-the-spot command ability is very poor, and he does not know how to encourage the team members and mobilize the enthusiasm of the team members. We can use the national table tennis as a comparison, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and other players will also appear in bad shape or distracted, but as long as Qin Zhijian suspends the adjustment, they will soon be able to regain the rhythm, although both teams are facing the problem of talent breaks, but the national table tennis is much more stable than the national feather, which can see the gap between the ability of the two head coaches.
Of course, the national feather men's team does not have particularly excellent talents, this is also the reality, the so-called smart women are difficult to cook without rice, expecting the coach to lead this group of players to create achievements that are comparable to the glorious history, it is inevitable that some strong people are difficult, so Chen Yu's problem is barely excusable compared to Zhang Jun. During the Tokyo Olympic Games, if the national men's team had not been supported by veteran Chen Long, it would certainly not have had the opportunity to climb the singles podium, and neither Shi Yuqi nor Lu Guangzu would have been able to become the banner figure of men's singles. To make matters worse than these two, Shi Yuqi had a brilliant performance in last year's Su Cup event, and the other men's singles players never came up with a truly convincing performance.
In the men's doubles, there was a contradiction in the twin tower combinations, which led to the collapse of the Tokyo Olympic final and eventually the loss of the gold medal. After that, Liu Yuchen retired, and Li Junhui's partner was replaced by Ou Xuanyi, and the effect was still not ideal. It is worth mentioning that Shi Yuqi was punished internally for passive withdrawal, unable to return to the field for 1 year, Chen Long is old, Guoyu can be said to be facing internal and external troubles, and during the Paris Olympic Cycle, fans may be disappointed frequently.