On May 2, the Tongyou Cup in Chengdu, China, will usher in the quarterfinals, the national feather men's team will challenge the defending champion India, and the women's team will face the European powerhouse Denmark.
The Tom Cup is a combined name for the Thomas Cup and the Uber Cup. The Thomas Cup is synonymous with the World Men's Badminton Team Championships, while the Uber Cup stands for the World Women's Badminton Team Championships.
The national feather women's team had relatively weak opponents in the group stage, defeating Singapore, Canada, and India with three 5:0 scores, and advanced to the quarterfinals with the top spot in the group.
Although the national feather men's team also advanced to the quarterfinals as the first in the group, the final battle with the South Korean team was full of twists and turns. In the first two rounds, they easily defeated the Canadian team and the Australian team with 2 5:0, and narrowly defeated the Korean team 3:2 in the third round, Shi Yuqi, Li Shifeng, and Lu Guangzu won the singles and scored 1 point each, and the men's doubles Wang Chang/Liang Weihang lost to the Korean pair Seo Seung Jae/Kang Min-hyuk, and Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi lost to the Korean pair Qi Dong-joo/Kim Won-ho.
In the 1/4 finals of the Uber Cup, the biggest threat to the national women's team is the South Korean team, and An Seying, who is firmly in the throne of the world's football queen, will lead the Korean women's team to attack the Uber Cup for 2 consecutive years. In the last Uber Cup, she led the team all the way to the first women's singles in South Korea, although she lost to Chen Yufei, the first sister of the national feather in the first set of the final, but in the end, the Korean women's team defeated the Chinese women's team 3:2 and successfully won the second championship in team history. An Seying has won two women's singles titles this year, the Malaysia Open Badminton Championships and the French Open Badminton Championships, and her morale is high, and she believes that she will not easily close the match with the Chinese women's team.
In the 1/4 finals of the Thomas Cup, although the national feather men's team avoided the fierce rivals Denmark and Indonesia, they met the defending champion Indian team in advance, and there were world-class masters in all positions, and the promotion situation was facing a severe test. On May 15, 2022, the Thomas Cup World Men's Badminton Team Championships were held in Thailand. The Indian team defeated the last champion Indonesia 3:0 and won the first Thomas Cup championship in team history, especially the semi-finals defeated the Danish team led by Tokyo Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen 3:2, which can be called the biggest "dark horse".
At 9:30 on May 2, Uber China vs Denmark and Japan vs India. 17:00, Thomas Cup China vs India, Japan vs Malaysia.
Text丨Rushing News reporter Wu Yongming