An Zhiying defeated Wang Zhiyi to advance to the last eight of the China Tournament, and the next round is expected for Han Yue to block her progress

On the 7th, in the Super 1000 Series China Open Championship, An Zhiying defeated Chinese women's Wang Zhiyi 21:14, 22:20 to advance to the top 8 of women's singles, continuing to move towards the goal of her first Chinese women's singles championship.

The world's first sister, Korean genius girl An Zhiying

An has swept eight titles so far, including a gold medal in the women's singles at the World Championships, only the Indonesia Open to the last four, and at least the final of the rest of the competitions, and is the favorite to win gold at the Hangzhou Asian Games in September and next year's Paris Olympics.

Since the Chinese tournament has been suspended for 3 consecutive years due to the epidemic after 2019, An Zhiying came here to compete this time to attack the championship, facing Wang Zhiyi on the same day, An Zhiying also had a 6-1 advantage, the only loss was last 4 of the Asian Championship women's singles last year.

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An Zhiying led 9:8 in the first game for five consecutive points, and even though Wang Zhiyi once approached, she still held the ball and scored four consecutive points, and also managed to take the lead. Wang Zhiyi, who had the home advantage, continued to fight with An Zhiying in the second game, and the two sides tied a total of 13 times, and Wang Zhiyi also resolved 1 end point, but unfortunately it still fell short, and could only watch An Zhiying accept the victory.

An will face another national badminton female athlete, Han Yue, in the round of eight, who also won the gold medal in the women's singles of this year's Chengdu World Universiade. An Zhiying has won 5 of Han Yue's last 6 meetings, but it took 4 games and 3 sets to divide the winner.

World sister An Zhiying has good luck, and she will not meet Dai Ziying, Chen Yufei and Akane Yamaguchi, who are also known as the "Big Four" of women's singles with her. Ahn has won the Super 1000 twice before, this year's All England and the 2021 Indonesia Open. After becoming a world champion, An has won eight titles this year, equalling the record for the highest season in the world badminton women's singles held by national badminton stars Li Xuerui and Dai Ziying.

Today's world badminton women's singles F4, from the left, An Zhiying, Dai Ziying, Yamaguchi Akane and Chen Yufei.

Yonhap News Agency said that as long as she reaches the top of this China Open, she will become the women's singles player with the most singles titles in world badminton history in a single season with 9 titles, and it may only be a matter of time before she catches up with the highest 11 titles in a single season in the world badminton set by Japanese men's singles player Kento Momota in 2019. In fact, An has a bigger goal than that. Yonhap News Agency said that Ahn Zhiying, who has become the world's number one women's singles player, pointed to the "Grand Slam", that is, she also wants to win the Asian Games, Olympics and Asian Championships.