At the 2024 Thailand Open Badminton Championships, the Chinese badminton team that has just won the Thomas Cup and the Uber Cup, although they have hidden the main force in the five major individual events, still played a good performance, among which Wang Zhiyi and Han Yue joined hands to advance to the women's singles semifinals, facing the host players Ge Tong and Li Meimiao respectively, on the penultimate match day of the main match, Wang Zhiyi took the lead to face the current world No. 16 Ge Tong, who is not only ranked lower than Wang Zhiyi in the world, but also in the past 3 direct dialogues between the two. I have never tasted victory yet, which is why fans are optimistic about Wang Zhiyi's prospect of winning! In this game, Getong played a very high-quality attack with the cheers of the fans on the spot, and finally defeated Wang Zhiyi 2-1 after three rounds of hard fighting, ending his invincible curse!
The women's singles semi-finals of this game became a showdown between China and Thailand, as the host Getong felt the enthusiasm of the home fans as soon as he came up, in order to be able to end his invincible curse in the face of Wang Zhiyi, Getong entered the state very quickly in the first game, in order to get rid of Wang Zhiyi's control, he has been taking the initiative to speed up the assault, and a more active style of play, which also allowed her to score 3 points at the beginning, although Wang Zhiyi slowly found some feeling of returning the ball as the game progressed, and returned a wave of 3-0, allowing the two sides to return to the same running line, But in terms of speed, there is still no way to keep up with Getong, watching the opponent another wave, regained a 7-3 lead, although Wang Zhiyi by suppressing Getong's backhand bottom line, continuously caused the opponent's backhand excessive mistakes, and wiped out the point difference again, but the mistake of the key ball, so that Wang Zhiyi with a slight disadvantage of 10-11, ended the first half of the game.
After returning to the court, Getong suddenly increased the change of rhythm, no longer blindly seeking speed, but increased the invitation to kill in front of the net, which also hit Wang Zhiyi by surprise, seized the opportunity of Getong, and quickly rewrote the score to 16-11, although Wang Zhiyi is also trying his best to limit the opponent's attack, but Getong, who has already played a sense of hand, became more and more courageous in the enthusiastic shouts, withstood Wang Zhiyi's counterattack, and made a good start with 21-17.
Wang Zhiyi, who can no longer lose, obviously increased his active control in the second game, and used a patient quartet to pull and hang as soon as he came up, to mobilize and consume Getong, but I have to say that the opponent's state in this battle is very good, completely ignoring Wang Zhiyi's large-scale landing point changes, that is, in the middle and back of the field to force the attack, played a very high threat, has been biting the score and Wang Zhiyi played to 8 draws, at the critical moment, Wang Zhiyi continued to grasp the opportunity to pass the crossing, scored 3 points in a row with an 11-8 lead, and entered the technical break.
Getong, who is very aware of Wang Zhiyi's strength, launched a crazy counterattack after the game started again, not wanting the opponent to drag the game into the deciding game, although the difference between the points was approached to 2 points twice, but Wang Zhiyi, who had the advantage, played more calmly and equalized the score 21-12 as he wished.
The two who were eager to win in the decisive game entered hand-to-hand combat at the beginning, but after the fierce battle to 6 draws, Ge Tong resolutely continued to attack, grasped the initiative, and after a wave of 5-0 with a 11-6 lead to exchange venues, Yibian fought again, although Wang Zhiyi did not give up, but too many mistakes allowed Ge Tong to slowly expand the advantage to 16-9, although Wang Zhiyi stubbornly chased to 19 at the end of the game, but unfortunately made continuous mistakes at the decisive moment, so that Ge Tong locked the victory 22-20.