Mixed doubles is the only event in which the national team currently ranks in the top two in the world.
With the start of the Thailand Open Badminton Championships this week, the world badminton world ushered in the Southeast Asian season. Starting with the Thailand Open, the next series of tournaments will play a decisive role in determining the seeding quota for the Olympic Games. All teams, including the national team, will be pushing for a better world ranking in order to secure a more favourable Olympic seeding spot in the world rankings, which expires on 9 July.
After the Tongyou Cup, the world badminton competition returned to the rhythm of the Paris Olympics. This week's Thailand Open is a Super 500 tournament, followed by the Super 500 Malaysia Masters, the Super 750 Singapore Open, and the Super 1000 Indonesia Open. At the end of June, there will also be events in Australia, Canada, the United States and other events. Due to the large number of competitions, the main players of the national team focus on the Indonesia Open and Singapore Open, which are the highest levels.
On July 8, the registration for the badminton event of the Paris Olympics ended, and the final list of participants was produced, and on July 9, the seed ranking of the badminton event of the Paris Olympics was determined, and the group stage draw was held on July 12. For the national team, the main task now is to get a better ranking in the five events, so that they can secure a more favourable Olympic seeding place in the world rankings, which ends on 9 July.
Men's Singles 1/16 finals
Thailand Open Badminton 2024
Li Zijia
VS
Lei Lanxi
In the latest world rankings, in men's singles, Shi Yuqi is ranked second, with a difference of 3,800 points with Danish Axelsen at the top of the rankings and 3,188 points more than Indonesian Jonatan in third place. From the perspective of the draw, there is not much difference between the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, so for Shi Yuqi, it is important to maintain the position of the top two seeds. Another national player, Li Shifeng, is sixth, with only 141 points behind Japan's Kodai Naraoka in fifth and 4,935 points behind Danish Antonsen in fourth. If Li Shifeng can overtake Antonsen and finish in the top four in these races, he will be seeded in the top four of the Olympic Games.
There is not much room for change in the Olympic seeding quota for the women's singles national feather women's singles. Chen Yufei is second with 103332 points, 9,596 points higher than the third-ranked Spanish veteran Marin, and as long as she plays normally in the next two high-level competitions, she will be able to hold on to the second position. Another national player, He Bingjiao, ranked sixth, with a difference of more than 16,000 points from the fifth-place Chinese Taipei star Tai Tzu Ying and the fourth-place Japanese star Akane Yamaguchi, and it is very difficult to overtake.
Men's Singles 1/16 finals
Thailand Open Badminton 2024
Wang Ziwei
VS
Luo Jianyou
In Men's Doubles, the post-00s pair of Leung Wai Hang/Wang Chang are currently ranked No. 1 in the world, 4,383 points ahead of the second-placed South Koreans Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae, and they can further secure their position and lock up the top seeds of the Paris Olympics through their upcoming matches. Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi, who qualified for the Olympic Games at the Asian Championships, are currently ranked eighth, but they are only 1,970 points ahead of Chinese Taipei's Li Yang/Wang Chi-lin, with more than one race remaining, such a lead is not large, once they are overtaken by the opponent and miss the top eight, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi will play in the Paris Olympics as unseeded, and there will be two seeded pairs in the same group, and the situation will become difficult. Therefore, in the next period, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi will have the courage and courage to fight for Olympic qualification and deal with a series of important competitions.
Women's Doubles pair Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan are firmly ranked No. 1 in the world with 112556 points, 8,140 points ahead of second-placed Korea's Baek Ha Na/Lee So Hee. The third-ranked Chinese pair Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning is 13,620 points behind the second-placed Bai Ha Na/Li Shaoxi, and it is very difficult to overtake. For Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, there is no need to think too much at this stage, do a good job of yourself, adjust your mentality, and keep the top four seeds.
Mixed doubles is the only event in which the national feather currently dominates the top two in the world, with Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong ranking first with 109773 points. Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping are in second place with 97,000 points, but the "Phoenix" pair are currently only 409 points ahead of the third-ranked Japanese pair of Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino, and they will very much need to use these tournaments to retain the second place, so that the national mixed doubles can take the top two seeds of the Olympic Games, which is conducive to the Olympic draw and grouping situation in the future.