On April 13, Beijing time, the Asian Badminton Championships continued, and just ended a men's singles 1/4 final, the national badminton world No. 2 Shi Yuqi was defeated by the world No. 5 and Indonesian star Jonatan 1-2 and missed the final!
Shi Yuqi has always been at the top level of technology, but physical strength has always been a short board, often due to physical exhaustion leads to more mistakes, at the end of last year's offseason after the strengthening of physical training, now the physical fitness has been greatly improved, this season's state is very good, has won 2 championships and 1 runner-up! This Asian Championships are hard signing, all the way to the hard battle, 1/16 finals 2-0 victory over Indian star Lakshya, 1/8 finals 2-0 victory over Japanese star Kenta Nishimoto, 1/ 4. In the finals, 2-0 eliminated the new world champion Kunlavut to advance to the semifinals!
Jonatan is ranked No. 5 in the world, as an Indonesian veteran, and Lin Dan's previous record is also a mutual victory, is a veritable bitter master of the national feather, the main technical characteristics are defensive counterattack, delicate technology, strong defense! This season just won the All England Open championship, the state is very good! This Asian Championships has defeated Hong Kong star Lee Cheuk Yiu and Malaysian star Li Zijia to advance to the top 4! Judging from the previous record of Jonatan and Shi Yuqi, both sides are 7 wins and 7 losses, no equal!
In the first game of the game, the two sides played very intensely, from 5-5 to 9-9, and at the critical moment, Shi Yuqi scored 2 points in a row to lead 11-9 and entered a technical timeout! After the pause, Jonatan once overtook the score 14-12 through the control of the small ball in front of the net! After that, the two sides continued to draw, and after the 18-18 draw, Shi Yuqi scored 3 points in a row to win the first game 21-18!
In the second game, the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw! After that, Jonatan scored 4 points in a row to take the lead 6-2, Shi Yuqi's mistakes continued to increase, and Jonatan led 11-4 by 7 points into a technical timeout! After the pause, Jonatan still implemented the strategy of strengthening control of the ball in front of the net, constantly causing Shi Yuqi's mistakes, and once took a 17-10 lead, Shi Yuqi did not give up, launched a fierce counterattack, and once chased the score to 19-20, at the critical moment Shi Yuqi killed the ball out of bounds, and Jonatan pulled back a game 21-19!
In the deciding game, the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw! Jonatan took the lead 9-3 through the advantage of the small ball in front of the net and played more decisively! Shi Yuqi was not very excited in the whole state, and made many mistakes, and finally Jonatan led 11-5 and entered the inter-game timeout! After the pause, Shi Yuqi strengthened his coherence and played a wave of 5-2 to chase the score to 10-13! At the critical moment, Jonatan withstood the pressure to stabilize the score advantage, Shi Yuqi still made too many mistakes, and finally Jonatan won another game 21-12, and the total score was 2-1 to reverse Shi Yuqi and advance to the final!