The final event of the 2023 season will be the final tournament of the 2023 season, the year-end finals, which will start the second round of the group stage on December 14, 2023 Beijing time. Before the start of the last round of the group stage, many people regretted to be out of the game, including Chinese player Han Yue!
Han Yue lost to Chen Yufei in the first round of the group stage, but in the second round, despite his best efforts, he still lost to the powerful Marin. In addition, because Chen Yufei and Marin won two games in the first two rounds of the group stage, they also locked the tickets to the semifinals in advance. Chen Yufei and Marin will compete for the top spot in the group. In addition, Han Yue suffered two consecutive defeats and missed the semi-finals of this year-end finals for the first time to participate in such a gold-rich competition, but he paid for the experience, and Han Yue will compete with Zhang Beiwen for the third place in the group next. And the American veteran Zhang Beiwen was also out of the tournament ahead of schedule, and also suffered two consecutive defeats in the first two rounds. The other group of women's singles, Tai Tzu Ying, also locked a ticket to the semi-finals in advance with the victory of the first two rounds, and the other ticket to the semi-finals will be between Kim Ga-eun, Mariska and An Seying. And in the midst of the crucial decisive battle. Ahn Se Ying will also face the powerful Tai Tzu Ying in the final round. And Tai Tzu Ying is also very likely to not give the South Korean players any chance to knock out their opponents.
In addition, in men's singles, Ginting successfully locked a valuable ticket to the semi-finals with two consecutive wins in the group stage. Although Shi Yuqi defeated the powerful Viktor Axelsen in the first round, he unfortunately lost to Ginting in the second round, so Shi Yuqi must defeat Kodai Naraoka in the final round to lock up the second place in the group. In addition, in mixed doubles, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong also locked a ticket to the semifinals in advance with two consecutive wins in the group, Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan also won two consecutive victories in the group stage, and the other women's doubles pair, Chiyo Shida and Nami Matsuyama, also locked a place in the semifinals in advance.
In addition, Tan Ning and Liu Shengshu also won the first victory in the year-end finals, continuing to retain the hope of hitting the top four. In men's doubles, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi got a place in the semifinals. Wang Chang and Leung Wai Hang defeated Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi in this round and will face Malaysia's Chia Ting Fung and So Wei Yi in the final round. In addition, Indonesia's Alfran and Ardianto also got a ticket to the semi-finals. Japan's other mixed doubles pair, Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, lost in the second round and kept their qualification suspense in the final round.