At the Badminton World Championships at the end of 2021, Zhang Yiman, a member of the Chinese women's badminton women's singles team, came out of nowhere and won the bronze medal at the World Championships with a dark horse posture.
After entering 2022, Chinese badminton fans hope that this dark horse can have a good performance, adding a strong pole to China's badminton women's singles again.
Unexpectedly, from the German Open that began on March 8 to the Malaysian Open, which had just ended the battle again, Zhang Yiman all fell into Chen Yufei's pit and did not climb out for more than 3 months.
In the German Open, which began on March 8, Zhang Yiman took advantage of the momentum and performed well, defeating Schindhu and Takahashi Sayaga in a row to reach the final four. However, Zhang Yiman met Chen Yufei in the semi-finals. Zhang Yiman scored a draw in the first two sets and a waist injury in the third set, and although he insisted on finishing the game, he still lost 1-2.
Who knows, this is just the beginning of poor Zhang Yiman's encounter with Chen Yufei this year.
At the All England Open, which opened on April 12, Zhang Yiman's first-round opponent was Chen Yufei, and this time, Zhang Yiman abstained.
At the Thailand Open on May 17, Zhang Yiman met Chen Yufei again in the second round, this time, it was still Zhang Yiman who lost 1-2, with three scores: 21-19, 14-21, 13-21.
At the Indonesian Open that opened on June 14, Zhang Yiman once again met Chen Yufei in the second round, and the result of the match still did not change, losing 1-2 again, and the score of the three sets was 10-21, 21-15, 12-21.
At the just-opened Malaysian Open, Zhang Yiman met Chen Yufei in the first round, this time, Zhang Yiman lost even more miserably, losing 0-2, and the two sets were 18-21, 8-21.
For more than 3 months, participating in 5 world competitions, all fell in front of Chen Yufei, Zhang Yiman's hand was too back.
Unlike Zhang Yiman's bad luck, the two teammates Wang Zhiyi and Han Yue, who were not as concerned as her, both played bright spots in the first half of this year. Wang Zhiyi won the Asian Championship and the runner-up of the Indonesia Open, while Han Yue also reached the final four of the Indonesian Masters.
Zhang Yiman always met Chen Yufei in the competition, and the reason why they have a certain relationship with the world ranking, at present, Chen Yufei ranks 4th, Zhang Yiman ranks 32nd, if everyone comes to participate, it is easy to be arranged together in the lower half of the district. However, it was still very rare to meet Chen Yufei so frequently.
Since he always had to meet, Zhang Yiman could only make up his mind to cross Chen Yufei's hurdle one day.