The national feather men's team swept Malaysia 3-0 and was crowned the champion of the Asian team competition!
On February 18, the final of the 2024 Asian Badminton Team Championships began, in the men's team final, the national team men's team played against Malaysia, and the women's team final was India against Thailand. In the end, the Malaysian team, which hid the main men's singles player Li Zijia, lost three games in a row, achieving a 3-0 sweep of the national feather and being crowned the champion of the men's team. In the women's team final, the Indian team led by Sindhu narrowly defeated the Thai team 3-2 and won the women's team championship for the first time.
This Asian team competition is a qualifying tournament for the Chengdu Tangyou Cup in May this year, but for the Chinese team, the qualification to participate in the Tangyou Cup has already relied on the advantage of world ranking to lock the ticket. Therefore, in the selection of participants, the main focus is on young players, focusing on training, and the main main forces are all absent. In the group stage, the national feather men's team was in the same group as Hong Kong, China and India, and the national feather defeated Hong Kong, China 5-0 in the first group game, and narrowly won 3-2 in the second game, and finally won both games to advance to the top 8.
In the knockout round, the national feather and the Indonesian team had an encounter, and the result was 3-2, a narrow victory to help the national feather advance to the top 4. In the semi-finals, facing the South Korean team, the national doubles team lost all points again, and with three singles victories, they played five games again, narrowly won with a score of 3-2, and advanced to the final. In the final battle, facing the Malaysian team led by Li Zijia, the national feather did not send the strongest lineup, and Malaysia also hid the singles brother Li Zijia. In the end, with the two singles victories of Weng Hongyang and Lei Lanxi, and the young combination Xie Haonan/Zeng Weihan defeated the world champion pair Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi 2-1, and finally the national team swept Malaysia 3-0 and won the men's team championship in the Asian team competition again.
Compared with the men's team's championship, the performance and results of the national feather women's team were poor, and they only had one game in the group stage, but they played five games and lost to the Indian team 2-3. After advancing to the top 8, they faced the Japanese team in the quarterfinals, and the result was the loss of two women's doubles and the final third singles, which led to a 2-3 defeat for the national feather women's team. The performance of the echelon players of the national feather women's team is indeed disappointing, especially the pairs of doubles, which expose very serious problems.
The women's team final was played between the Indian team and the Thai team, and in the end, under the leadership of the first sister Sindhu, the Indian team performed well, with the first doubles and the third singles key victories, and finally the Indian team team narrowly defeated the Thai team team 3-2 and won the women's team championship for the first time.