On April 14, 2024, Beijing time, the Asian Badminton Championships just ended the men's doubles final, and finally the world No. 3 Leung Wei Keng/Wang Chang defeated the Malaysian dark horse pair Wu Shifei / Izuddin 2-1 to win the second crown of the season!
This year's Asian Championships national badminton men's doubles sent four pairs to participate, and in the end, only the Liang Wang combination broke into the top four! After the Liang Wang pair won the Malaysia Open at the beginning of this season, they were not in good shape in the next three tournaments, and all of them stopped in the round of 16! In this Asian Championships, the Liang Wang combination played steadily, defeating Galaga/Platek, Endo Saito/Takei Yuta, Alfian/Ardianto, and Taipei's Lee Zhehui/Yang Boxuan to advance to the final! Malaysian pair Wu Shifei/ Izudin, ranked 19th in the world, is a dark horse in this Asian Championships, defeating the world's No. 2 Korean pair Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae, the national feather any pair, Taipei champion pair Li Yang/Wang Chi-lin and the world No. 5 Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi to enter the final, and the field is a hard battle! Liang Wang and Malaysia have played each other once before, when Liang Wang won 2-1!
In the first game of the game, the Malaysian pair took the lead 4-1 through the advantage in front of the net! Liang Wang chased 3 points in a row to stabilize the situation! After that, the two sides alternated the lead, and the score was very stale, and the two sides once fought to a 9-9, 10-10 draw, and finally Liang Wang led 11-10 and entered a technical timeout! After the pause, Liang Wang took the lead 14-12, and kept the lead to expand the difference 19-15, and finally Liang Wang won the first game 21-17! In the second game, Liang Wang fell behind 1-3, after which Liang Wang struggled to catch up and took the lead 7-5! The Malaysian pair launched a counterattack and regained the lead 11-10 into the technical timeout! After the pause, Liang Wang's mistakes increased, and the Malaysian team took the opportunity to open up the score difference at 17-13, and finally pulled back a game 21-15!
Liang Wang fell behind 0-3 in the deciding game, and then Liang Wang launched a fierce attack, playing a wave of 11-3, leading 11-6 into a technical timeout! After the pause, Liang Wang became more and more courageous, expanding the lead 16-7, and finally Liang Wang won another game 21-10, and the total score was 2-1 to defeat the Malaysian dark horse combination to win the second championship of the season! In the men's doubles prize money rankings, Liang Wang combination won the championship prize of 33,300 US dollars and ranked first, Malaysian pair Goh Shi Fei/ Izudin won the runner-up and won $15,750 to rank 2nd! Taipei's Lee Zhehui/Yang Boxuan reversed the world's No. 6 Japanese pair Takuro Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi 2-1, and the world's No. 5 Malaysian pair Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi defeated Guoyu 2-0 to advance to the semifinals! Taipei and Malaysia both won $6,300 in prize money in the top 4 and tied for third!
Japan's Takuro Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi 2-0 South Korea's Zhenlong/Luo Shengsheng, Indonesia's Alfian/Ardianto 2-0 Taipei's Lu Jingyao/Yang Bohan, Guoyu Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi 2-0 Korea's Quan Rongyi/Wang Can, Taipei's Olympic champion Li Yang/Wang Chi-lin 2-0 Thailand's Supak/Gidinupong, all advanced to the quarterfinals! All four pairs won the top 8 prize money of $2,812.5 and tied for fifth! Malaysia's Wan Wei Cong/Zheng Kaiwen 2-0 Guoyu Chen Baiyang/ Liu Yi, Korea's Jinlong/Luo Shengsheng 2-0 Perachayi/Parkkapo, Japan's Endo Saito/Takei Yuta 2-1 Malaysia's Wang Yaoxin/Zhang Yuyu, Lu Jingyao/Yang Bohan 2-0 Vietnam's Nguyen Dinh Hoang/Chen Ding Ming, Korea's Kim Young-yi/Wang Can 2-1 against Indonesia's Fernando/Martin, Kenya Mihashi/Hiroki Gangmura 2-1 Li Fangzhi/Li Fangren, Supak/Gidinupong 2-1 against Fikri/Maulana, Guoyu He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu 2-0 Ponsarkorn/ Wangsaton advanced to the round of 16, and these eight pairs all received $1,462.5 in prize money for the round of 16, tied for 9th.
Rankireddy/Shetty, Chen Boyang/Liu Yi, Deve/Dylan, Perachayi/Parkkapo, Galaga/Platek, Wang Yaoxin/Zhang Yuyu, Franyou/Thongsa, Nguyen Dinh Hoang/Chen Ding Ming, Fernando/Martin, Arjun/Capilla, Li Fangzhi/Li Fangren, Hari Haran/Redtina Sabati, Koga Hui/Saito Taiichi, Fikri/Maulana, Ponsakon/Wangsatun, Kang Minhyuk/Seo Seungjae and other 16 pairs all stopped in the top 32, each with a prize of $450 and tied for 17th!