The round of 16 of the 2024 Badminton Asian Championships has been released. In the first match, there were three upsets, all of which came in doubles, namely Men's Doubles World Champions Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae, Indonesia's Scud and Japan's Women's Doubles Rape Flower Pair, all of which ended in the first round. On the national side, a total of 26 people advanced to the next round of competition.
There were frequent upsets due to the small gap between the Asian teams in Men's Doubles, with second seeds and world champions Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae of Korea suffering another first-round defeat against Malaysia's Goh Si Fei/Izudin, 13-21, 18-21. Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae's exit will favour the two Chinese pairs, Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang and Ho Jiting/Yam Xiangyu.
After winning the first round, Ho Ji Ting/Ren Xiang Woo should play Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae according to the draw form. Although in the previous encounters, any combination won against Kang Minhyuk/Seo Seung-jae with a double-pressure play, it is still difficult to predict who will die at the Asian Championships. Unexpectedly, Kang Minhyuk/Seo Seung-jae fell directly in the first round and missed the second round of the "revenge war". This also provides convenience for He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu to go further.
For Leung Wai Keng/Wang Chang, it is a good opportunity to win the championship. Because the top seeds Rankireddy/Shetty announced their retirement before the start of the Asian Championships, Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae are the most seeded players, and with the elimination of the top seeds, the No. 3 seeds Leung Wei Keng/Wang Chang are the highest-ranked pair in the existing draw table, so they have also become the first favorites to win the title.
As far as the draw is concerned, Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang's next round opponent is Japan's Endo Saito/Takei Yuta, and it is not a problem to defeat them; the opponent of the eight into four is likely to be Indonesia's Alfian/Ardianto, if they can win the semi-finals, the potential opponent is Takuro Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi; the remaining two groups of seeded players in the second half are No. 4 seeds Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi, No. 7 seeds Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi, and it is not difficult for the national feather men's doubles division final.
A total of 26 people advanced in the first round of the national feathers, including two men's singles Shi Yuqi defeated Lakshya 21-19/21-15 and Li Shifeng defeated Xie He 21-11/21-12; women's singles Chen Yufei, He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi and Han Yue swept all opponents into the finals; in addition to Chen Boyang/Liu Yi, the four men's doubles pairs were defeated, Wang Chang/Leung Wei Keng, He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu and Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi and other six people advanced; women's doubles Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu, Liu Shengshu/ Tan Ning and six others advanced to the second round, while the mixed doubles Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping, Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin and Cheng Xing/Chen Fanghui advanced to the second round.
A total of 6 players lost or retired, namely Lu Guangzu lost to Prannoy 21-17/21-23/21-23, Weng Hongyang retired in the second game to ensure Zhou Tiancheng advanced, Men's Doubles Chen Baiyang/Liu Yi lost to Wan Weicong/Zheng Kaiwen 15-21/12-21 and Women's Doubles Li Wenmei/Liu Xuanxuan retired due to knee injuries.