In the 2024 Badminton Asian Championships, Han Yue played against Akane Yamaguchi again after a year, the last time the two met was the Malaysia Masters in May last year, when Han Yue lost 10-21, 17-21, a total of 5 meetings in his career, Han Yue lost all 5 games against Akane Yamaguchi, this campaign was at home in Ningbo, Zhejiang, Han Yue played well, and finally won in two straight games, swept 2-0 and advanced to the top 4, the first victory in his career Akane Yamaguchi, creating a big upset!
The two have distinct technical characteristics, Han Yue's defensive tenacious pulling ability is extremely strong, Akane Yamaguchi has the advantage of strength and speed, and they meet again after a year, Han Yue has the advantage of the home field, in addition, Han Yue is in a critical period of competing for women's singles tickets to the Paris Olympics, and Han Yue is also stronger than Akane Yamaguchi for the desire to win. However, in terms of past record and overall ability, Akane Yamaguchi is undoubtedly the stronger side. Previously, on the road to promotion, Han Yue has eliminated a bitter master Sindhu, the first victory over the opponent after 5 consecutive defeats, this game, in the face of another 5 consecutive defeats of the bitter master Akane Yamaguchi, Han Yue once again brought surprises, the whole court remained suppressed, and won in straight sets 21-13 and 21-16, Lianke 2 bitter master Sindhu and Akane Yamaguchi advanced to the top 4 of the women's singles of this Asian Championships, and sprinted to a place in the women's singles of the Paris Olympics.
Before this Asian Championships, the national feather has locked in advance of the Paris Olympics women's singles places, but in addition to Chen Yufei, another candidate is undecided, in the Olympic points, He Bingjiao, Han Yue, Wang Zhiyi bite very tightly, all have the opportunity to win the Paris Olympics tickets through the Asian Championships better results, more importantly, this badminton Asian Championships is also the last stop of the Paris Olympic Games points competition, which can be said to be very important! Wang Zhiyi has taken the lead in advancing to the top 4, Wang Zhiyi reversed Aya Ohori 2-1 in two games after losing one game in a row, and He Bingjiao won two games in a row 21-17 and 21-18 to sweep the world's No. 1 An Xiying, ending the 7-game losing streak against An Xiying!
Han Yue, who appeared later, also broke through herself, facing Akane Yamaguchi, who had never won, Han Yue was like a rainbow as soon as she came up, changed the decline of the previous fight, and maintained the lead all the way, 21-13 won the first game strongly, and then in the second game, Akane Yamaguchi improved her state, but Han Yue played a wave of extremely critical scoring climax at the end of the game, winning 21-16 again, defeating Akane Yamaguchi for the first time in her career. In this year's Badminton Asian Championships, the national feather women's singles played extremely well, Han Yue, He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi have all broken through from their respective divisions, if Chen Yufei can successfully defeat Mariska, the national feather women's singles will sweep all the top 4 of this tournament and lock the championship in advance.