The 28th World Badminton Championships ended in Denmark in the early morning of the 28th Beijing time, and the Chinese team won 1 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze. The women's doubles pair Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan successfully defended their title, becoming the first combination to achieve three consecutive titles and four titles. But outside the "mortal dust" combination, the overall performance of Guoyu is average. Especially in the mixed doubles final, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong lost and failed to reach the fourth title. In addition, the world badminton pattern also showed a trend of change in this tournament, and new champions were born in many events.
Caption: Chen Qingchen (left) / Jia Yifan celebrates after winning the championship
"Participating in the World Championships for the sixth time, each time is more eager and more morale is higher than each stop." After the women's doubles final, the "Dust" group confessed that they always had a strong desire to win.
In this final, the "Dust" pair faced the 11th-seeded Indonesian pair Rahayu Siti who reached the final for the first time this season, barely giving their opponents the lead, winning 21-16, 21-12. The duo thus became the first women's doubles pair in world championship history to win three consecutive titles, win a total of four titles, and win all three gold medals in the same Olympic cycle. Talking about the Paris Olympics, Jia Yifan bluntly said that as they get older, the two will face more difficulties, "I hope to do my best when my body allows." ”
In the mixed doubles final, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong lost 17-21, 21-10, 18-21 to No. 5 seeds Seo Seung-jae/Cai Yoo-yue, missing out on the first mixed doubles pair to achieve four World Championship titles. It was the first defeat for the two to reach the final of the four-time World Championship and the first defeat in 10 meetings with the South Korean pair.
At this World Championships, the three mixed doubles players ranked in the top eight in the world. Among them, first-time rookies Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin reached the last four, losing to the "IELTS" combination to win the bronze medal, while the No. 3 seeds Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping were out early. The superiority of the army group did not turn into a gold medal.
In other individual events, Guoyu participated in full quotas: the women's singles won a bronze medal in the case of poor luck, Chen Yufei returned to the semifinals against the "new devil" An Xiying without success, and Marin, who returned to the peak, broke the monopoly of the "Big Four"; The men's singles is the only individual event that does not have a medal recorded; The men's doubles returned to the World Championships, and the first-time "post-00s" duo Leung Wai Keng / Wang Chang won a bronze medal. In addition, Zheng Yu/Zhang Shuxian lost in the women's doubles semifinal "derby" and won a bronze medal.
Caption: In the women's singles semifinals of the 2023 World Badminton Championships held in Copenhagen, Denmark, China's Chen Yufei (bottom) lost 0-2 to South Korea's An Zhiying and missed the final.
Looking at the world badminton pattern, except for women's doubles, all individual events have produced new champions. The women's singles queen An Zhiying is unstoppable, almost all of her participation this season has reached the final, winning the eighth title; The men's singles final even staged a "post-00s" showdown, and Kunravut defeated Naraoka Koda to reach the top; Seo Seung-jae achieved the "double champion" of men's doubles and mixed doubles, helping the Korean team become the biggest winner of this tournament. The Indonesian team of the women's doubles also won three consecutive pairs of Japan and South Korea during the promotion process, breaking the situation of "three points in the world" in the project.
Xia Xuanze, vice president of the Chinese Badminton Association, said that from this World Championships, it can be seen that the strength of each country has improved, the level is similar, and the victory or defeat mainly depends on the performance on the spot, "Winning or losing is often only a millimeter, depending on who can release it." He believes that the loss of the "IELTS" combination and Chen Yufei is that one or two points were not handled well in the process; And Shi Yuqi and "King Liang" combined more or less carrying ideological baggage, "thinking too much about the result, and did not do a good job in the tactical execution in the process." Xia Xuanze said that the players should learn to release themselves in the game, while improving morale and fighting spirit, which is the next aspect that needs to be honed.
In early September, Guoyu will debut in Changzhou for the reopened China Open, followed by two weeks to prepare for the Asian Games in Hangzhou at the end of the month. Rushing gold in all individual events is the only goal of Guoya.
Editor-in-chief: Chen Hua Text editor: Chen Hua
Source: Author: Yao Qinyi