The 2024 Badminton Asian Championships held in Ningbo, the first round of the national badminton men's singles performance was not good, Weng Hongyang and Lu Guangzu encountered a round of tours at home, fortunately, Shi Yuqi and Li Shifeng did not disappoint the fans, played two rounds of triumphant songs, and joined hands to break into the men's singles quarterfinalsAfter the start of the game, Shi Yuqi played a very high-quality attack, although Kunlavut was extremely tenacious, but Shi Yuqi still swept 2-0 to advance to the men's singles semifinals!
After the start of the game, Shi Yuqi continued his first two hot state, as soon as he came up, he played the rhythm very fast, in the process of pulling and hanging in the four directions, the high-quality sliding paddle in front of the net was also very passive, as long as the opponent did not return the ball in place, Shi Yuqi was able to use his iconic overhead area to kill the ball, so that the new World Championship champion paid the price, in the cheers of the home fans, Shi Yuqi smoothly established a 5-1 lead, Kunlavut who was unwilling to lose, after catching the small ball of the net of the first brother of the national feather, once the difference was close to 2 points, but Shi Yuqi did not give him any hope of equalizing the score, still with an 11-6 lead, entered the technical break.
After the game restarted, Shi Yuqi continued the fiery assault in the first half, the penalty kill in the middle and backcourt, played Kunlavut without the power to parry, and soon extended the lead to 16-9, just when the fans thought that Shi Yuqi could easily get off to a good start, he suddenly lost his state, Kunlavut took the opportunity to play a wave of scoring climax, tenacious at the end of the game, chased the score to 20 draws, fortunately, at the critical moment, Shi Yuqi re-improved his state, after scoring 2 points in a row, he took the lead 22-20.
With the thrilling of the closing stage of the first game, Shi Yuqi realized that if he wanted to defeat Kunlavute, he must do his best, and in the second game, Shi Yuqi insisted on pushing Kunlavute's backhand bottom line, and took the lead as soon as he came up, taking a 6-2 lead early, but as the new World Championship champion, Kunlavut's strength should not be underestimated, and after fighting back with all his might, he quickly chased the score to 6 draws, but Shi Yuqi did not give him a chance to overtake, and quickly returned a wave of scoring climax, ending the first half of the game with 11-7.
After returning to the court, Kunlavut launched a desperate fight, but Shi Yuqi did not repeat the mistakes of the second half of the first game, and kept his opponent engrossed and controlled his mistakes well, which also allowed him to suppress his opponent in the score and finally sealed the victory 21-13.
After winning this game, Shi Yuqi broke into the men's singles semi-finals, and the opponent of the first brother of the national feather in the semi-finals will be the winner between Jonatan and Li Zijia.