On May 26, the 2023 BWF Tour Super 500 Malaysia Masters began the 1/4 finals, and Guoya suffered a heavy hit in the first few matches in the morning, and suffered three consecutive defeats in the three matches played on the No. 1 venue! The mixed doubles pair Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin lost to former world number one and Thai pair Dechabo/Shasili; Wang Zhiyi and Zhang Yiman of the women's doubles both lost. Only the Phoenix group successfully avenged the Japanese group Kyohei Yamashita / Nanru Shinoya, and reached the top 4 alone.
The Malaysian Masters is the second leg of the Paris Olympic Points Tournament, and because the Sudirman Cup ended last week, many of the main players chose to take a break. Guoya sent some of the main players and young players to compete in the competition, striving for good results and earning points. However, after the first two rounds, the overall performance of Guoyu was not good, and the two pairs of men's doubles and women's doubles each lost out, making these two individual events without Chinese players in advance. In the men's singles competition, Lu Guangzu and Li Shifeng were out in the first and second rounds respectively.
After the round of eight, only Weng Hongyang was left in the men's singles, and the women's singles contestants Wang Zhiyi, Han Yue and Zhang Yiman advanced together, and the mixed doubles phoenix pair Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping and Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin all successfully advanced. Today's 1/4 final battle, the first few matches in the morning session. In the three matches at Field 1, Chinese players competed.
In the first mixed doubles, the Guoyu mixed doubles pair Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin challenged the former world number one, world champion Thai pair Dechabo/Sahiri, but the two performed poorly in the first game, losing 8-21, and still did not have a good chance in the second game, losing another game 17-21, and finally losing 0-2. In the second women's singles, Wang Zhiyi faced Indonesian sister Mariska, although Wang Zhiyi defeated Mariska twice last year, but this meeting, she did not feel anything, lost two consecutive games 11-21, 14-21, almost completely lost. The third game was also women's singles, Zhang Yiman challenged India's sister Sindhu, although Zhang Yiman lost 16-21 in the first game, but won 21-13 in the second game, and the tiebreaker trailed down to 20 draws, but there was a rare mistake in the key serve, and finally lost 20-22 by two consecutive points, thus losing 1-2.
The only victory for China Yu in the morning came from Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping, who faced the Japanese pair Kyohei Yamashita / Naniru Shinoya, who had defeated them in the Sudirman Cup, and once again experienced three hard games, the first game was behind, the counterattack won 22-20, the second game was lost 11-21, the tiebreaker was 21-17 to seal the victory, and finally the big score was 2-1 and successfully revenge and strongly advanced to the last four.
In the afternoon session, the remaining two of Guoyu, Weng Hongyang of the men's singles, will appear to face Hong Kong's Wu Jialang; Han Yue in the women's singles will face Thailand's Busangnam and expect them to advance together.