The national feather men's singles performed well in the first round of the Malaysia Open Badminton Championships, the first super 1000 event in 24 years, all four players played triumphantly to advance to the second round, the third match day of the main competition, the men's singles one-eighth final was fully opened, Shi Yuqi took the lead on the stage, facing the French player Da Popov, the latter is only 25th in the world, in terms of personal comprehensive strength, and Shi Yuqi still has a certain gap, which is why fans are more optimistic about Shi Yuqi's promotion prospects before the game! Sure enough, after the game started, Shi Yuqi suppressed the opponent at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, especially his iconic overhead kill, which made Popov embarrassed, and finally Shi Yuqi lost two games in a straight row, easily swept the opponent with a big score of 2-0, and advanced to the third round of men's singles!
Because the two players have never played each other in the World Series before, so after the start of the first game, they played very patiently, constantly through the hanging and mobilization to familiarize themselves with the opponent's style of play, and slowly improve their state, after biting the score to 7 draws, Shi Yuqi began to exert force, he suddenly accelerated the pace of the game, and relied on the precise control of the bottom line and sliding before the net hanging, so that Da Popov fell into the disadvantage of running and saving the ball in the front and back courts, after playing a wave of scoring climax, Shi Yuqi with an 11-8 lead, entered the technical break。
After returning to the court, Shi Yuqi continued his fiery state, by controlling the high-quality control net, forcing Da Popov to play the high ball, and then seizing the opportunity of the opponent to push the bottom line is not in place, directly using his best overhead area to kill, to impact Da Popov's defense, after playing a coherent assault, Shi Yuqi blasted out a wave of 7-1 scoring climax, leading 18-9 at the end of the game, although Da Popov did not give up, has been trying to strengthen the attack to narrow the difference, but the gap in strength, so that it was not able to stage a good show against the wind, watching Shi Yuqi get off to a good start with 21-13。
Successfully won the first game, so that Shi Yuqi played more confident in the second game, although Da Popov learned the lesson of losing in the first game, targeted to Shi Yuqi's backhand bottom line, hoping to limit the play of the first brother of the national feather, but I have to say that Shi is in a very good state in this battle, his backhand hook diagonal made Da Popov very passive, suppressed the opponent in the score as soon as he came up, and with a huge lead of 11-3, ended the first half of the game.
After the game started again, it was obvious that Popov's mentality was a little broken, and he didn't care about the situation at all, that is, he blindly started to attack, and wanted to end this duel that lost suspense as soon as possible, although Shi Yuqi, who firmly grasped the initiative, also had some problems of not being cautious enough to return the ball, but he still easily locked up the victory with 21-5.
After easily eliminating Popov, Shi Yuqi broke into the men's singles quarterfinals of the Malaysia Open, and his opponent in the next round will be the winner between his national teammates Lu Guangzu and Ginting.