The final round of the group stage of the 2024 Chengdu Tongyou Cup will be held today, and the group stage of the Uber Cup will all end this afternoon, and the draw for the knockout round will also be held on the spot. The Chinese women's team, as the first in Group A, won the Danish team in the second draw and will compete with their opponents for a place in the semifinals tomorrow morning.
In the first two group games, the national feather women's team defeated the Singapore women's team and the Canadian women's team 5-0 respectively. In both matches, the national team played in the women's singles with He Bingjiao, Han Yue and Wang Zhiyi, while the doubles sent different combinations, including Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Tan Ning/Liu Shengshu, Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu, and Zhang Shuxian/Liu Shengshu. The Indian women's team, who are also in Group A, have won 4-1 against the other two teams and competed with China for the top spot in the group yesterday morning.
The two teams from China and India met in the group stage of the Asian Team Championships in February this year, and the national team was defeated by the Indian team 2-3 at that time, and the opponent won the women's team championship in the last round. Coming to the finals of the You Cup, the elite of the national feather fighting at home did their best, while the main players of the Indian team, such as Sindhu, Ponnapa, Gobichand, and Jolly, did not come to Chengdu. Reflected in the team competition for the top spot in the group, the Chinese team sent a strong team, and the players in the top eight in the world appeared. The Indian team sent all the "post-00" players, the oldest of the eight players on the court is 23 years old, and there are even 16-year-old young women's singles players. Under the comparison of strength and weakness, Guoyu won 2-0 in all five games.
Among them, Chen Yufei, who had rested for two group games, finally appeared, and she used half a game to fully adapt to the game, and finally won her opponent 21-12, 21-10. Chen Yufei said that she cheered for her teammates as a cheerleader a few days ago, and her mood was relatively relaxed, but it would also increase the expectation and excitement of this appearance. Subsequently, a pair of Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, a pair of Tan Ning/Liu Shengshu, and a pair of Wang Zhiyi were all bloodless and won 2-0. After Han Yue won the first game 21-9 in the second singles, his opponent An Moore waived due to injury when he led 4-1 in the second game.
As a result, the Chinese team won the first place in Group A of the Uber Cup, and the Indian team qualified second in the group. In the other three groups, Thailand is the first team in Group B, Chinese Taipei is the second team, Japan is the first team in Group C, Indonesia is the second team, and South Korea is the first team in Group D, and Denmark is the second team.
This afternoon, after the Uber Cup group stage is over, the second draw will be held on the spot. According to the latest world ranking points of the four group winners, China is the No. 1 seed in the knockout round and directly enters the No. 1 position in the knockout round, South Korea is the No. 2 seed and directly enters the No. 8 position in the knockout round, Japan and Thailand are the No. 3/4 seeds, and through the draw, the Japanese team enters the No. 3 position and is in the top half of the bracket with the Chinese team, and the Thai team enters the No. 6 position and is in the bottom half with the South Korean team. According to the principle of avoiding the 1/4 finals of the knockout stage by teams in the same group stage, the second teams in the four groups draw their opponents respectively. The top half of the bracket is China vs. Denmark, Japan vs. India, and the bottom half is Indonesia vs. Thailand and Chinese Taipei vs. South Korea.
After the men's and women's team group stages yesterday, the Chinese team gathered twice and summarized, and deployed the work of the knockout stage. Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association and head coach of the national badminton doubles, concluded that the men's and women's teams won the first place in the group stage, and the next knockout round will be more difficult and cruel.
According to the schedule, the Chinese team will face the Danish team at 9:30 tomorrow morning. The national feather team has no competition tasks today, and each individual group will go to the warm-up venue and Shuangliu base for training according to the venue arrangement and their respective needs, and prepare for the knockout round that will start tomorrow.