On May 6, Beijing time, the 2024 Thomas Cup & Uber Cup has come to an end in Chengdu, Sichuan, but the bits and pieces about the game have still become the focus of heated discussions among netizens. Especially the 25-year-old Ren Xiangyu, who has been waiting for many years to finally become the new world champion, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong both sent him blessings through social media.
Ren Xiangyu, 25 years old, 1.80 meters tall, trained in Sichuan, Tianjin and Dongguan, Guangdong, before officially entering the Chinese badminton national team training camp in 2016. At the beginning, Ren Xiangyu was arranged to partner with Ou Xuanyi, and the two won the men's doubles championship at the US Open Badminton Championships in 2018. After the Tokyo Olympics, the national feather men's doubles team was dismantled and reorganized, and Ren Xiangyu partnered with Tan Qiang, and the two reached 18th in the world's highest ranking. But because there was no greater breakthrough in the results, Ren Xiangyu was arranged by the coach to partner with He Jiting. Affectionately known as the "Little Pistols" by fans, the duo was very eye-catching as soon as they partnered, winning multiple titles in just one year, including the Kumamoto Masters in Japan and the Thailand Masters.
In this Thomas Cup team competition, Ren Xiangyu and He Jiting were entrusted with important tasks in the semifinals and finals, replacing the world's higher-ranked Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen to play the "double double". They also did not live up to the trust of the coaching staff, scoring a winning point for the national team with two victories, and made great contributions to the team's championship. Ren Xiangyu, who won the last point, was also very excited, first lying on the floor, and then crying with joy. When his teammates around him were one step ahead of him to become a world champion, Ren Xiangyu did not give up, but relied on his own efforts to send himself to the world championship wall after entering the national team for 8 years.
To be able to play such an outstanding result with only one year of the combination, and even keep the suspense of entering the Paris Olympics until the last Olympic points competition, shows the strength of the two men. In the crucial semi-finals and finals of the Thomas Cup, they defeated Malaysia's strong opponents Goh Shi Fei/Izuuddin and Indonesia's "double doubles" Fikri/Maulana, which proved their ability to play hard. Ren Xiangyu and his partner He Jiting are both born in 1998, and they have plenty of time to prove themselves in the future, so let's look forward to it together.