Before the start of this Asian Championships, the first task of the Chinese badminton team is not to win a certain championship, but the men's doubles pair Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi will go further than the Indonesian pair Fikri/Maulana to ensure that the national team will participate in the Paris Olympics with full quotas.
Because just before the Asian Championships, Fikri/Maulana had just won the men's doubles runner-up at the Swiss Open, with 72,179 Olympic points, and came to 9th place, only 2,279 points less than Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi in 8th place.
For this reason, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuan Yi is like a great enemy, and has repeatedly said that they will "fight to the death", while Fikri/Maulana also expressed "full confidence".
On April 10, the first round of the main draw of the Asian Championships began, and Fikri/Maulana took the lead, kicking off the men's doubles Olympic qualification battle.
Fikri/Maulana's first opponent is Thailand's Supak/Gitinupong, ranked 23rd in the world, and with their ability, they have basically no desire to qualify for the Olympics and the Asian Championships.
In the first game, Fikri/Maulana behaved very normally, they led 11-10, opened the score 15-11, and won the first game 21-15.
At this time, the men's doubles coaching staff of the Chinese team must have been full of alarms, and repeatedly told Tuou that the enemy is fierce and prepare for battle quickly.
In the second game, Thailand's Supak/Gidtinubong did not have any advantage in the first half of the game, but they fought back after 15 draws, 18-15 to open the score, 20-16 to win the game point and 21-16 to pull one back.
In badminton matches, there is often a tactic of playing one game and one game, and at this time, the Chinese audience did not feel anything unusual.
In the third game, Thailand's Supak/Giddin Nuphorn once again led the first half 11-9, and the crowd was interested and they joined in the action. After returning from the break, the Indonesian pair Fikri/Maulana chased to 11 draws. The voices of the audience, who had just whetted their appetites, were lowered.
Who knows, the Thai pair Supak/Gidtinupong scored four points in a row to lead 15-11, and then led all the way, and won the tiebreaker 21-17 in the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, and eliminated the Indonesian pair Fikri/Maulana 2-1 in the first round.
Fikri/Maulana came with confidence, but suffered a miserable round. The so-called "death before leaving the school, the hero will be full of tears".
In this way, the Chinese fans laughed to death, and Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi, the opponent who was like a big enemy at the Asian Championships, capsized in the gutter in the first round and withdrew from the competition for Olympic qualification. The trick used by the Chinese badminton team is called borrowing a knife to kill.
At this point, the national feather can already announce: the Paris Olympics are full of participation. Don't look at the national feather's recent mediocre record, but this result is something that has not been achieved in the Tokyo Olympics.