On May 2, Beijing time, the 2024 Tang You Cup continued, and today's game came to the 1/4 finals stage, in the Uber Cup game, the national feather women's team took the lead in finishing the score, defeated the Danish team 3-0, and successfully advanced to the semifinals, and then faced the Japanese team in the semifinals, they defeated the Indian team 3-0.
In the Thomas Cup, the game was more intense, China defeated India, Malaysia defeated Japan, and there was an upset, although Malaysia also has strong strength, but Japan is the big seed team after all.
China 3-1 India
1. Shi Yuqi 15-21, 21-11, 21-14 Prannoy
2. Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang 21-15, 11-21, 21-12 Rankireddy/Shetty
3. Li Shifeng 21-13, 8-21, 14-21 Lakshya
4. He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu 21-10, 21-10 Kapila/Plantic
The first three sets of the game were decided through the tiebreaker, the national feather played well in the two sets of doubles, and both successfully scored points, and Shi Yuqi reversed to score points in the singles, and Li Shifeng was reversed and lost the first game of the Chinese team.
Shi Yuqi is the same as the game against South Korea, it is a reversal to win, it is still very important to be able to adjust the state in time in the second game, his opponent Prannoy is very strong, Shi Yuqi's skills and tactics in the next two games are very resolute and improve the speed.
In the second set, Leung Wei Keng/Wang Chang entered the state quickly, suppressed the opponent with speed, and always occupied the dominant situation on the court, and was beaten by the opponent in the second game, but fortunately, in the third game, he once again brought out the speed and the advantage of the first half. Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang: Hurry up at the beginning, I can't wait to go back to playing drums and cheering!
"Actually, we didn't have a lot of ideas, in the team competition anything can happen, so we started to push it. We weren't firm and resolute enough in the last game, but today the whole tactics have changed, and we will make choices and give up. Leung Wai Keng was very excited to play today, he said: "I can't wait to go back and play the drums and cheer now!"
It is a pity that Li Shifeng was reversed, and the opponent played very tenaciously. After the game, he said that although the pressure was a little less under the 2-0 score, he would also be anxious to score points for the team, and unfortunately failed to lock in the victory. Especially after the break in the tiebreaker, I made some mistakes and attacked too quickly.
He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu played relatively easily, defeated the opponent completely, did not give the opponent any chance, and played very well.
Today for the team to win the key winning point, "any" was very calm, they explained: "I played more calmly today, and that feeling is not there yet, so I am not so excited. "
Japan 1-3 Malaysia
1. Kenta Nishimoto 13-21, 3-21 Li Zijia
2. Takuro Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi 18-21, 21-14, 21-19 Translated by Xie Dingfeng/Su Wei
3, Watanabe Hanggui 13-21, 10-21 Liang Junhao
4. Teru Koga/Taichi Saito 21-18, 15-21, 12-21 Wu Shifei/Izudin
As the fourth seed, the Japanese team won all the group stages, and originally had a good chance to advance to the semifinals, but their single Nara did not play, and was called a "deserter" by netizens.
The Japanese team won the Thomas Cup in 2014 and has remained very competitive since then. Japan's third singles Kento Momota was unavailable, and yesterday's final group game could be the last international match of his career. Kento Momota, as the world champion, was also out of the team with the team, plus Prannoy, Rankireddy, Shetty, Lakshya, and the five world champions were all out.