The Malaysia Open, the first international super event of the 2024 new season, will be beaten on January 9, Beijing time, and badminton teams from all over the world have sent their main lineups to participate in the battle, and even the world's No. 1 women's singles Akane Yamaguchi, who has been hanging for half a year, has also chosen to make a comeback.
Let's take a look at the highlights of this competition:
Women's Singles
As the defending champion, Akane Yamaguchi is in the 2/4 zone with Grand Slam winner Marin as the No. 3 species of the tournament, 1/4 is guarded by the world No. 1 An Xiying, the 3/4 zone is guarded by the four-time champion Tai Tzu Ying, and the first sister of the national feather Chen Yufei is in the 4/4 zone.
The focus of the women's singles battle is whether F4 can gather in the top 4 again, and who will kill Akane Yamaguchi and An Seying PK, and whether Chen Yufei can break through from the world champion Intanon and meet the first sister in Taipei.
Men's Singles
The four major battles of the national feather will compete in this competition, among which Shi Yuqi and Xiao Lu are in the same 2/4 zone, Li Shifeng and Weng Hongyang are the closest, if the first round is passed, there will be a civil war, but Xiao Weng is more difficult, the opponent is the Indian rising star Lakshya.
Although Shi Yuqi signed well, it is very likely to meet the world No. 1 Axelsen in the 1/4 finals, so reaching the top 4 in this competition is basically completing the task, of course, if he can pick off the world No. 1 again, it is obviously a good omen for the stone in 2024.
Mixed doubles
Of course, the IELTS combination is the focus of every competition, even if it lost to Jiang Wei twice last year, but in the end it still defended the hegemony of the world's No. 1, and the IELTS combination admitted in the year-end summary interview that the ultimate goal of this year is the Paris Olympics.
The IELTS duo are the defending champions of this tournament, having won four consecutive titles with a 2-0 aggregate win over their rivals in straight games in the final last year.
The semi-finals are likely to be IELTS Combination VS Dongfeng Combination, and Meat Ding Combination VS Dongdu Combination.
Women's Doubles
The signing of this competition is not friendly to the women's doubles, and there are 3 pairs of national feather pairs in the 1/4 zone alone: the defending champion Fan Chen combination, and the two rookie pairs of the post-00 pairs Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, Li Yijing/Luo Xumin.
If the Liu Shengshu combination can defeat the senior sister Fanchen combination, then the Paris Olympics will provide double insurance for the national feather women's doubles.
It's hard to say about the cosine, if there are no results this year, it will be a matter of time before it is disassembled.
Men's Doubles
Liu Ou, the first brother of the national feather group, has been in the doldrums for more than a year, and the Liangwang combination has been unstable. Hopefully, any combination of the split and restructured and the newcomer Chen Baiyang/Liu Yi combination will be able to surprise us again.
Any combination
The Paris Olympics will start in July this year, and there is really not much time left for the men's doubles national team.