On August 28, Beijing time, the 2022 Badminton World Championships came to an end, and the national feather, who returned to Tokyo after a year, won two gold medals in mixed doubles and women's doubles. In the singles arena, Chen Yufei lost to defending champion Akane Yamaguchi in three sets, and the "IELTS" combination Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong, and the "Fan Chen" combination Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan defeated the opponent 2-0 to successfully crown the triple crown. In the most high-profile men's singles final, Denmark's Acelon defeated Thai teenager Kunravuut to win the second World Championship without suspense; In the men's doubles competition, Su Weiyi/ Xie Dingfeng defeated the Indonesian veteran Ashan / Hendra combination to win Malaysia's first world championship gold medal in history.
Considering the men's team, Li Junhui, one of the twin towers, has a low ranking in the men's doubles new combination after retiring, while the men's singles veteran Chen Long truce, Shi Yuqi has just returned, and Guo Yu's performance of 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze is already the best result after the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong (left) pose after the award ceremony. Xinhua News Agency
Chen Yufei led the recovery of women's singles
The biggest surprise came from Olympic champion Chen Yufei. Back in The Blessed Land of Tokyo, her way to promotion has defeated Thailand's Li Miaowei, Canada's first sister Li Wenshan, and in the semi-finals, she defeated Chinese Taipei's Dai Ziying in three sets, but unfortunately lost to Akane Yamaguchi in the final, with the scores fixed at 12-21, 21-10 and 14-21.
After the Olympic Games, sudirman cup and Uber cup competitions, coupled with Luo Yigang's guidance, Chen Yufei won 6 tour titles in the 2021 season, and finally won the championship at the Tokyo Olympics. This season, Chen Yufei has reached the tour final six times to win a championship, maintaining a high level of competitive status in the fiercely competitive women's singles field. Before the game, Chen Yufei, who already had two bronze medals in the world championships in hand, admitted that he would continue to give himself psychological hints that "olympic champions do not have to take the world championships", hoping to unload their baggage and let go to play. Although she failed to help the Chinese women's singles regain the World Championships after 11 years, she has also refreshed her world championship best.
Chen Yufei failed to save the ball in the final. Xinhua News Agency
It is gratifying that in addition to the stable leader Chen Yufei, He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi and Han Yue, three women's singles Jinhua, also have the strength to compete with first-class players, and gradually form a group advantage. At this World Championship, He Bingjiao, who is known for her offense, and Ma Lin, the Olympic champion, played indistinguishably, and Han Yue, who was good at pulling and hanging, fought against South Korea's An Xianying for three sets, and the decisive game was lost 20-22. Wang Zhiyi, who was eliminated in the "China Derby", won the Asian Championship of the 1000 class this season and reached the final of the Indonesia Open.
In contrast, the men's singles event is still in the painful period of the replacement of the old and the new. In this competition, Lu Guangzu lost to Prince Wei early out, the comeback Shi Yuqi also stopped in the round of 16, and the remaining Zhao Junpeng although he eliminated the Indian double male Srikante, Pranoy and the championship favorite Li Zijia made many fans shine, but in the end, he lost to Thai Nova and the World Youth Championship triple champion Kunlavut stopped in the semifinals, and only got 6 points in the second set. In addition, a series of active mistakes such as consecutive three-point bottom line errors also exposed Zhao Junpeng's obvious deficiencies in the ability to adapt and self-regulate on the spot in the competition.
In addition to the three Mesozoic players, Li Shifeng and Weng Hongyang, who have previously had brilliant performances in the Thomas Cup and the Tour, are also competitors for the men's singles quota in the Paris Olympic cycle. However, the two are currently ranked low in the world and need to participate in low-level events to accumulate points in the second half of the year to get high-level events. In the face of Acealon, Li Zijia, Luo Jianyou, Jin Ting and other opponents with outstanding offensive and defensive strength and more experience in the competition, the Chinese men's singles still has a long way to go to break through.
On August 25, He Bingjiao returned the ball during the match. On the same day, in the third round of the women's singles competition of the 2022 World Badminton Championships held in Tokyo, Japan, China's He Bingjiao lost 1-2 to Spain's Ma Lin and missed the quarterfinals. Xinhua News Agency
Key sub-treatment needs to be strengthened
At this World Championship, many big reversal matches left a deep impression on the audience, including many defeats of the Chinese team.
In the quarter-finals, the women's singles He Bingjiao was eliminated by Olympic champion Ma Lin with 6 consecutive points in the decider with four match points in his hand; Coincidentally, on the same day of the game, Shi Yuqi was reversed by Indonesia's "first brother" Kim Ting with a wave of 6-0 scoring climax in the case of leading three points, and regrettably out. On the other hand, against South Korea's Ahn Hyun-ying, Han Yue saved 5 consecutive match points to tie the score when he was behind in the decider, but was eventually defeated by his opponent by two consecutive points. The three games that did not fall behind in the strength of the paper, the continuous unforced mistakes in the key points, exposed the problem of the national badminton players being weak at key moments and not being good at downwind balls, which are worth summarizing after the game.
In terms of doubles, the problem of reserve talents remaining unsolved. The delay in China's second women's doubles has made the "fan chen" combination often face the embarrassing situation of being difficult to support in the competition.
Chen Qingchen (left) / Jia Yifan returns the ball in the game. On the same day, in the women's doubles final of the 2022 World Badminton Championships held in Tokyo, Japan, the Chinese team Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan won the championship by defeating the South Korean team 2-0. Xinhua News Agency
At present, the second women's doubles or between Du Yue / Li Wenmei, Zhang Shuxian / Zheng Yu was born, but the absolute strength of the two pairs is still a big gap between the opponent. The former was swept away by the Japanese duo of Mayu Matsumoto/Nagahara and Kona in the 16-8 run, scoring just nine points in the second set. The new duo, Jang Shu-hyun and Zheng Yu, lost 1-2 to the Thai duo of Bodhidharma/Sasili in the quarter-finals. In today's increasingly strong offensive ability of women's doubles, Zheng Yu's much-criticized forehand serve has repeatedly led to passive loss of points, coupled with the weak defensive ability and change of the two, often too high to be blocked by the opponent to score, it is difficult to compete with Japanese and Korean players. In order to sit firmly in the second women's doubles position, the two still need to work hard in terms of rotation tacit understanding and defensive counterattack ability.
(Lin Jiahong)