On the evening of April 30, the final round of the group stage of the 2024 Badminton Thomas Cup and Uber Cup continued. In the case of losing all two men's doubles matches, Guoyu finally defeated the South Korean team 3-2 with three men's singles victories, thus winning the first place in Group A with a record of winning all three matches and advancing to the top 8. And the problems exposed in the game of the soup cup against the South Korean team also sounded the alarm for Guoyu.
As the top seed in the soup cup, the national team was placed in Group A, and in the first two games of the group stage, they defeated Australia and Canada with a score of 5-0. South Korea also won two 5-0 games, and both teams advanced to the top 8 in the first round of the group. The final round of the group stage has become a battle for the top spot in the group. In this regard, the national feather men's team sent a full main lineup to practice for the knockout round.
In singles, the first brother of the national feather Shi Yuqi, Li Shifeng and Lu Guangzu played the first, second and third singles respectively. Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang and Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi played the first and second doubles. For South Korea, Jeon Yi Chan became the No. 1 singles, with Lee Run-gyu and Woo Seung-hoon serving as the second and third singles. World Championships Men's Doubles champions Kang Min Hyuk/Seo Seung Jae served as the first doubles, and the mash-up combination of Ki Dong-joo/Kim Won Ho became the second doubles.
In the first men's singles matchup, Shi Yuqi faced Quan Yichen and lost 14-21 in the first game, losing the first game of this year's soup cup, and then he won two games in a row 21-17 and 21-7 to complete the reversal and make a good start for the national feather. In the second men's doubles matchup, Liang Wang and Xu Jiang's strong dialogue was extremely intense, Liang Wang lost the first game 16-21, and pulled back a game 21-15 in the second game, but lost 15-21 in the deciding game, resulting in a big score of 1-2, and the total score of the two sides was 1-1 draw. In the third men's singles matchup, Li Shifeng defeated Li Lungui 21-15, 21-9, and Guoyu once again led 2-1 on aggregate.
In the fourth match of the second doubles duel between the two sides, Liu Ou combination, who had the nightmare of the "Korean-phobic" combination, faced the Korean temporary mix and match combination, won the first game 21-17, lost two games in a row 17-21, 21-23, and suffered a reversal, thus losing the key game, and the total score was 2-2 by South Korea. The two sides entered the fifth final battle of three singles! Lu Guangzu faced Yu Shengxun, withstood the pressure, 21-10, 21-15, swept two games in a row, thus helping Guoyu win a narrow victory with a total score of 3-2, won three consecutive wins in the group stage, and advanced to the top 8 with the first place.
Although the result of this Tang Cup match between China and South Korea did not affect the overall situation, the national team lost and lost points in such a match, especially the No. 1 singles Shi Yuqi and the two men's doubles pairs who will participate in the Paris Olympics. I have to say that it has sounded the alarm for the national feather, and how the national feather men's team, which is about to start the knockout round of the Thomas Cup, is likely to deal with the tough battles behind me is something that all the coaching staff and players need to pay attention to. If you still play the state and performance of the Korean team, I am afraid that regaining the soup cup will be just empty talk.