On the evening of April 12, Beijing time, the 2024 Badminton Asian Championships (Super 1000) ended another key battle, and the All England champion Li Shifeng made a late effort in the duel with Japan's Kodai Naraoka, and finally defeated his opponent to advance to the final.
In today's semi-finals, in addition to the women's singles, the national feather women's doubles and mixed doubles both lost "anti-Korean", Liu Ou team lost 1-2 to the "Li Bai" combination, and the IELTS combination was reversed by the meat combination 1-2, and the Koreans shattered the dream of the national feather to win the women's doubles and mixed doubles championships and runners-up.
Men's Doubles pair of Leung Wai Hang/Wong Chang will face dark horse pair Wu Shifei/Izuddin in the final after toppling rivals Alfian/Ardianto in the previous round, and if nothing else, the Liang Wang pair will win their second title of the season.
The last foreign battle of the national feather was the men's singles Li Shifeng against the "King of Grinding" Kodai Naraoka:
Kodai Naraoka VS Lee Shifeng
With the men's singles Shi Yuqi losing to Qiao's gang leader, Li Shifeng became the hope of the whole village.
The two sides have played each other 6 times before, but Li Shifeng has won the last two consecutive victories, Nara was fierce at the beginning, and Li Shifeng was difficult to parry with a ferocious and fast attack, and successively established an advantage of 7:3 and 11:4, after the inter-game adjustment, Li Shifeng quickly adjusted his strategy, and counterattacked the opponent with a wave of 8-2 in the case of a 5:13 big score behind, and bit the score to 13:15!
However, the good times did not last long, Li Shifeng made consecutive mistakes whether it was pressing down quickly and fighting for the net port, and was scored 4 points in a row by the opponent, approaching the match point with a total score of 19:13, and finally had no choice but to concede the first game 14:21.
In the second game, Li Shifeng stabilized his position and patiently maneuvered with the opponent, successively established a small advantage of 5:2 and 7:3, and then entered the intergame adjustment again with 11:8 under the pressure of the opponent.
During the period, the coaching staff specially instructed Li Shifeng not to attack strongly, and to fully mobilize the opponent and consume his energy.
However, Li Shifeng was still a little impatient, and was forced to a 13:13 draw by his opponent when he was leading 12:9.
In the next game, Li Shifeng stopped the loss in time, and with the help of fast downward pressure and frequent success, he led 17:13 and 19:15 successively, and then pulled the score to 1-1 with 21:15!
In the decisive game, the coach once again told Li Shifeng to patiently find the opponent's breakthrough, not to attack, and repeatedly emphasized not to make mistakes (low-level mistakes). However, the lengthy hanging is not the young and vigorous style of Li Shifeng, and it is Li Shifeng's style to hit hard and fast with speed, which leads to the inability to get rid of the opponent in the score.
After 4:4, 5:5, and 7:7, Li Shifeng counterattacked the opponent with a wave of 4-1 offensive climax, and entered the break with a total score of 11:7.
Li Shifeng then became more and more courageous, and after 15:9, he finally defeated his opponent with a total score of 2-1 and advanced to the finals.
So far, there have been 5 foreign battles in the region, and only 2 wins and 3 losses have been achieved.