The 2024 Tongyou Cup has ended all the group stages, the national feather ended one round early, and they are all the first in the group, the schedule is very beneficial to the national feather, and the rest of the day before the knockout round is more conducive to physical recovery, and it can also be more fully prepared for the subsequent knockout rounds. At a key match in the Thomas Cup.
Indonesia defeated defending champion India 4-1
1. Ginting 21-13, 12-21, 12-21 Prannoy
2. Fikri/Maulana 24-22, 22-24, 21-19 Rankireddy/Shetty
3. Jonatan 21-18, 16-21, 21-17 Lakshya
4. Fernando/Martin 22-20, 21-11 Capilla/Plantic
5. Ziko 19-21, 24-22, 21-14 Srikanth
The Indian men's team is the defending champions, including four world champions, Prannoy, Rankireddy/Shetty, and Srikanth, but the current team members are not as competitive as the previous edition. Even if you are still one of the favourites, it will be very difficult to successfully defend your title.
However, Prannoy played well, reversed and defeated Ginting, the second set was still a fierce competition, the three games were 2 points to win and lose, Fikri/Maulana missed 8 match points in the second game, fortunately in the deciding game thrillingly, the state of both teams is up and down, Fikri/Maulana is the former world No. 1, Rankireddy/Shetty won the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Jonatan narrowly beat Lakshya 2-1 and Fernando/Martin 2-0 Pila/Plantik, but Ziko upset Srikanth in the final set, and Indonesia won four sets in a row after losing the first set.
"Scud" defeated "Black Tower" in three games: prepared before the game, "Arrange for us to attack India for a pair, this is arranged by the coach and us before the group stage, and we are ready." With so many match points in the second game, we were a little bit of a lack of concentration to play the tiebreaker. But we're happy to win the game in the end!"
Jonatan said in an interview after the game: In the match between the Indonesian team and the Indian team for the first place in the soup cup group, Jonatan played as a second singles when the score was 1-1, and defeated Lakshya 2-1 to get a key point for the Indonesian team.
"I'm happy with my performance and I'm very happy. After the win I said to my teammates come on, we can win. Our senior Tawfik came here a few days ago and we are very happy that he is here and we are cheering and everyone is inspired. "
The Japanese men's team defeated Chinese Taipei 5-0 in the final round, and also won three consecutive victories to become the first in the group.
Group A first: China, Group A second: South Korea
1st in Group B: Japan, 2nd in Group B: Chinese Taipei
1st in Group C: Indonesia, 2nd in Group C: India
1st in Group D: Denmark, 2nd in Group D: Malaysia
According to the latest world rankings, the Chinese team became the No. 1 seed in the knockout round of the Tang Cup and automatically entered the top half, the Danish team was the No. 2 seed and automatically entered the bottom half, and the Indonesian team and the Japanese team were the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds respectively and needed to be drawn to enter the place. According to the principle of avoiding the 1/4 finals of the same group team, the 1/4 final opponents of the Chinese team will be produced between the Chinese Taipei team, the Indian team, and the Malaysian team, all of which are hard bones.
The final knockout draw is released, China and India, Japan, and Malaysia are all in the top half, and then China will compete with India for a place in the top four, if you want to win the championship, the knockout round is really a strong confrontation, very difficult to play.