The 2024 Asian Badminton Championships has entered the second match day, and the national feathers fighting at home are all the main players in the five major individual events, Chen Yufei, who took the lead in the women's singles field, He Bingjiao and Wang Zhiyi defeated their respective opponents to advance to the top 16, and Han Yue, who made her final appearance, met Chinese Taipei player in the first round of women's singles, world No. 27 Xu Minqi, the two had as many as 5 head-to-head confrontations last season, Han Yue not only maintained a winning record, but also swept the opponent cleanly every time, and now they meet again, Han Yue, who has the home advantage, has naturally become a more optimistic favorite to advance! After the game started, Han Yue made a lot of mistakes, allowing Xu Minqi to gain the upper hand, but after getting better, Han Yue took over the game, and finally lost two games in a straight line, winning with a big score of 2-0, and the four golden flowers of the national feather advanced hand in hand!
Since this game is Han Yue's debut, so as soon as the first game came up, she had not fully adapted to the venue, and she was relatively slow to enter the state, in the multi-shot competition with Xu Minqi, frequent in the case of little pressure, there were unnecessary mistakes, which also made the opponent easily take a 4-0 lead, fortunately, as the game deepened, Han Yue slowly found the feeling of returning the ball, and soon chased the score to 6 draws, but when the situation was good, Han Yue suddenly lost power, returned the ball out of bounds and the bottom line ball misjudged, so that Xu Minqi scored 4 points in a row and regained the 10-6 lead, in the case of passivity, Han Yue calmed down in time, began to be more patient with Xu Minqi, and after returning the opponent's wave of 5-0, with a slight lead of 11-10, ended the first half of the competition.
After returning to the arena, Han Yue's state continued to improve, not only did not lose the quality of the opponent in the process of beating and hanging, but also created an opportunity for herself to take the initiative to start the assault, after scoring 4 points in a row, she has expanded her advantage to 15-10, although Xu Minqi did not want to give up, but her offensive ability was not strong, resulting in the inability to play the scoring climax, and she could only watch Han Yue maintain the advantage in the score to the end, and made a good start with 21-14.
Han Yue, who won the first game, continued to play by himself in the second game, scoring 3 points in a row and suppressing the opponent, but Xu Minqi, who could no longer lose, did not take the initiative to speed up the attack, and chased the score to 4 draws as he wished, but such a rhythm of the game was more suitable for Han Yue's play, relying on stronger assault ability, Han Yue opened the score again and entered the technical break with 11-6.
Returning to the game again, Xu Minqi launched a desperate fight, but Han Yue, who was steady and steady, did not give her opponent a chance, controlled her mistakes well, and as long as there was an opportunity, the attack was also very decisive, which also allowed her to easily maintain the advantage to the end and lock up the victory 21-14.
In another women's singles matchup, world champion Sindhu fought hard in five games and defeated Malaysia's Wu Jin Wei with difficulty, and Han Yue will play with Sindhu in the next round to compete for a place in the quarterfinals.