On January 11, Beijing time, the 1/8 finals of the second round of the 2024 Malaysia Open Badminton Championships Super1000 continued.
In the first round, the national feather women's doubles won all five matches, and they were all swept to advance. In this round, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan extended their unbeaten record against Malken/Thygesen 21-13, 22-20, and won nine consecutive matches, and will face teammates Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning and Li Yijing/Luo Xumin in the next round. In the first game, Fan Chen only fell behind 0-1 at the beginning, and at the end of the game, he launched a wave of 9-1 offensive to lock up the victory in one fell swoop. In the second game, Fan Chen scored seven points in a row after falling behind 0-1 in the opening game and maintained the advantage to the end, once leading 12-4, the Danish combination played a wave of 8-1 offensive to close the score, and equalized twice and finally saved 2 match points in a row to 20-20 unsuccessfully, Fan Chen was in no danger.
The women's doubles team of foreign associations suffered a big upset, two consecutive world championships, world No. 9 Mayu Matsumoto/Wakana Nagahara lost to world No. 24 21-19, 13-21, 21-15, and the Indian pair Krasto/Ponnapa had a 1-1 record, while the Japanese won 2-0 last time. This time, the three games took 62 minutes but lost 1-2, although the second game pulled back a city, but the first game and the deciding game were only a short start 3-2 and 3-1 lead. In addition, the world's No. 3 Korean pair Kim So-young/Kong Hee-yong lost to the world No. 15 16-21, 16-21, and the Japanese pair Iwanaga Suzu/Nakanishi Takaei!
In the first round, the national feather men's singles won all four matches, Weng Hongyang defeated India 2-0 in the second singles, the runner-up of the Youth Olympic Games, the main team of the 2022 Thomas Cup champion team, and the 2023 Canadian Open Badminton Super500 champion Lakshyasen, following the world No. 24 Srikanth 2-1 reversal of the world No. 5 Jonatan, the world No. 25 Popov 21-11, 19-21, 21-15 upset against the world No. 14 Zhou Tiancheng, and the world No. 19 Lu Guangzu 2-1 reversal of Li Zijia The fourth biggest upset in the men's singles! In this matchup, in the first game, Weng Hongyang did not lag behind in the whole situation, and only held three draws at the beginning to 5-5. In the second game, Weng Hongyang scored six points in a row at 7-7 to take the lead and maintain the advantage to the end, and at the end of the game, he scored three points in a row to lock the win.
Weng Hongyang faced Li Shifeng in the second round, who eliminated world No. 33 Li Jiahao of Chinese Taipei in 79 minutes, 23-21, 15-21, 21-18. In an interview after the game, Li Shifeng said, "Although the body has gradually improved, the vitality has not fully recovered. ”
Last season's national badminton men's singles rose to the end, Li Shifeng's career only had the 2019 Canadian Open Badminton Championships super100 championship to the 2023 Asian Games men's team and men's singles double gold, and the first All England post-00 men's singles champion, these two finals opponents are Shi Yuqi! Although Shi Yuqi has no championship in the season, the tour prize money is higher than the two, which is the strength of the "leading brother".
Shi Yuqi reversed Gemke 20-22, 21-12, 21-10 in the first round to win four consecutive matches against him. In this round, the world No. 6 played against No. 33, and the two sides were encountered. In the first game, the opening game was 6-7, and Shi Yuqi played a wave of 6-1+6-0 12-2 offensive to overtake and maintain the advantage until the end, 21-13 to take the lead. In the second game, none of the overall situation fell behind and only started 2-2, Shi Yuqi scored seven points in a row to take the lead and maintain the advantage to the end, and at the end of the game, he scored six points in a row to lock in the win, 21-5 victory!
The last time the national feather men's singles won the championship here was in 2019 Lin Dan, can this time break through the monopoly of the two-time champion Axelsen?
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