Olympic Badminton - Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning and Fan Chen will meet in the women's doubles final, and China will lock up the gold medal in advance

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In the badminton women's doubles semifinals at Paris 2024, China's Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning defeated Japan's Chiyo Shida/Naomi Matsuyama 2-0 to advance to the final and ensure that the Chinese team won the gold and silver medals in badminton women's doubles ahead of schedule.

Although Chiyo Shida/Naomi Matsuyama showed strong offensive and defensive ability in the match, the Chinese pair won with excellent performance and strategy.

Badminton Women's Doubles semifinals.

In the semifinals of the Chinese badminton women's doubles at the Paris Olympics, Chiyo Shida, the former national badminton sister and Olympic runner-up of Japan, joined Nami Matsuyama, the current top seed of Japan women's doubles, and Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning, the new generation of Chinese badminton doubles women's doubles hopes, staged a match that was almost "peak duel".

As the Olympic women's doubles runner-up, Chiyo Shida undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on the doubles pair of Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, a pair of young and former youth sports partners, in addition to Japan's broadcasting company, which has been the number one player in women's doubles in Japan.

During the Olympic Games, Chiyo Shida/Naomi Matsuyama played a strong performance to defeat Turkey's doubles player and doubles world No. 1 Karakel/Imu and France's doubles world No. 3 Porthe/Rafael pair, and their strength in doubles world No. 2 is gradually being revealed.

Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, meanwhile, are ranked third in the world in doubles, and they have successfully advanced from the women's doubles group stage to the quarterfinals with excellent performances during the Olympic Games, beating Denmark's doubles powerhouses Aslik/Depra and Singapore's Mina Fujii/Zheng Meiyi.

In the second round of the quarterfinals, Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning defeated Korea's Shin Seung-chan/Kono Nanafan 2-0 to reach the semi-finals and advance to the semi-finals against Chiyo Shida/Naomi Matsuyama.

The Chinese women's doubles pair of Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning have been competing together at the youth level since childhood, achieving excellent results and making a deep impression on the youth sports field.

During the 2016 Youth Games, Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning won the women's doubles gold key and the women's doubles gold medal respectively, which was the foundation laid by their cooperation.

In the women's doubles event of the national feather, the combination of Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning is also a very dazzling combination.

They won the women's doubles gold medal at the 2018 Asian Youth Championships and the women's doubles gold medal at the Asian Junior Badminton Championships in the same year.

They went on to win the Women's Doubles title at the Asian Youth Championships in 2019 and the All England Championships in 2020, where they were seeded ninth in the Women's Doubles semi-finals and finished runners-up.

Since then, they have won the Women's Doubles title at the World Junior Championships in 2021 and the BWF World Ranking No. 1 in July of the same year.

However, since then, Liu Shengshu has been plagued by injuries and has not competed for two years.

However, even so, Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning performed invigoratingly, winning the women's doubles third place at the World Championships in 2022.

In 2023, they won the women's doubles runner-up at the World Championships.

At the same time, Liu Shengshu maintained the world's No. 1 ranking.

Whether it is the youth competition during the partnership period or the senior competition, Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning always doubles the second seed, and the configuration of the second seed is suitable for a partner like them, with tacit cooperation and outstanding strength.

Fierce semi-finals.

In the women's doubles competition of this Paris Olympics, Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning's form has been greatly improved.

During the group stage, they won all three games, and in the quarterfinals, they defeated the Korea pair 2-0.

In the round of 16, they defeated the 10th-placed Japan 2-0.

In the quarterfinals, they defeated the world No. 3 Korea.

Winning the first two games of the group stage with a score of 2-0 to advance to the round of 16 is a remarkable performance.

In the round of 16, they defeated second-placed Japan pair Nami Matsuyama/Chiyo Shida 2-0.

Similarly, Chiyo Shida and Naomi Matsuyama also advanced to the quarterfinals with a winning record.

In the quarter-finals, they defeated Turkey's Karaker/Im 2-0.

In the round of 16, they won 2-0 against third-placed Porter/Rafael.

In the group stage, Chiyo Shida/Naomi Matsuyama even had a better record than the Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning doubles pair.

However, against this background, the Chinese group ushered in a showdown with the Japan group.

After the start of the match, the performance of the Chinese and Japanese women's doubles pairs made people feel the difference in the strength of the women's doubles between the two countries.

In the first game, the Chinese pair quickly built a 4-0 lead and then continued to build up the score to eventually win the first game with a score of 21-16.

In the second game, the Chinese pair also got off to a good start, quickly taking a 6-2 lead.

However, in the following matches, the Japanese gradually found their form and began to bite the score.

At 14-12, the Japanese pair was punished by the referee for a service error, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Japanese pair, and the head coach even raised the discussion with the referee and persuaded him.

After this controversy, the situation was even more stalemate, and the Japan pair chased the score to 18-18.

At the critical moment, the Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning doubles combination showed top psychological quality, Liu Shengshu's high ball and Tan Ning's hook diagonal successfully disrupted the Japanese offensive rhythm, allowing the opponent to only send the ball out of bounds.

In the end, the Chinese team won the second game with a score of 21-18 and successfully advanced to the final.

With Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning and Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan both winning, the Chinese pair locked up the gold and silver medals in the women's doubles in Paris.

In this match, the Chinese pair withstood the difficulties and showed their top quality despite the pressure at a critical moment.

This match is not only a testament to their top-notch strength, but also a microcosm of the competition between China and Japan in women's doubles.

On the international stage, the matchup between China and Japan in badminton women's doubles has always attracted much attention.

This match showed the courage and strength of the Chinese pair in the face of strong opponents, and their performance undoubtedly made the Chinese people proud.

With the Chinese pair advancing to the final, fans are looking forward to winning the gold medal and hoping that they will be able to perform even better in the final and compete for more glory for the Chinese Women's Doubles.

Advantage of both sides in the game.

In this fierce match, the Chinese doubles pair Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning showed top strength and psychological quality.

Although they were tied at 18-all in the second game, they won the match with excellent tactical and psychological qualities.

This match also showed their experience and courage, which made the fans feel proud and proud.

In 2016 and 2019, Liu Shengshu was the hope of the new generation of Chinese women's doubles, while Tan Ning was her partner at the Youth Games.

In 2018, Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning swept the court with the Chinese badminton women's doubles pair.

They defeated the Singapore Women's Doubles pair in the final to win the Women's Doubles Golden Key, which was also an excellent performance of the two of them, laying a solid foundation for their future badminton career.

They went on to win the women's doubles gold medal at the Asian Youth Championships in 2019 and competed at the All England Championships in 2020.

In 2021 and 2022, Liu Shengshu was also voted China's best women's doubles athlete.

In 2018, Liu Cheng and Suzanne Cheng won the Chinese badminton women's doubles gold key and runner-up respectively, which is a solid foundation for their cooperation.

In the 2020 national doubles event, Liu Cheng and Suzanne Cheng are undoubtedly the brightest stars, in addition to the two golden keys at the Asian Championships in '18 and the All England in '20, Chen Cheng also won the women's doubles gold medal at the Asian Championships in '19.

At the 2023 World Championships, they won the women's doubles title again.

However, Liu Shengshu's state is not very good.

Although she has not flinched on the field and has always been in excellent form, the competition at this Olympics will undoubtedly be a big challenge.

In the group stage, they advanced to the quarterfinals with excellent performances and achieved good results by beating the Korea pair 2-0 in the quarterfinals.

However, facing the challenge of the Japan pair in the semi-finals, the Chinese team still felt a lot of pressure.

The Japan pair performed well in the group stage, successfully advancing to the quarterfinals and beating world number three France 2-0.

In the next matches, the strength of the Japan pair became stronger, forcing the Chinese pair to focus more on the game.

However, the Chinese pair showed top mental quality in this match.

Although the Japan tied the score at one point, the Chinese did not back down, but withstood the pressure and won the match with experienced tactics and mental qualities.

In addition, Tan Ning and Liu Shengshu's performances in the competition were equally commendable.

In this game, Tan Ning's high ball and Liu Shengshu's hook and corner successfully disrupted the opponent's offensive rhythm, so that the opponent could only send the ball out of bounds, thus helping the team win.

epilogue

The performance of the Chinese women's doubles players in this competition made the fans very proud, and at the same time, it also showed us their hard work and dedication in the game.

Although the performance of Chinese players Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning in this match made fans proud, the victory in this match was not easy for the Chinese players.

The psychological quality of both sides was reflected on the field, and in the face of critical moments, one side withstood the pressure and finally won the game.

In the next competition, we expect the Chinese players to continue to maintain their top strength in the face of strong opponents, and give full play to their tactical and psychological qualities to strive for more honors.

The performance of the Chinese women's doubles pair Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning in the Paris Olympics is exciting, and we hope that they can continue to maintain their excellent form in the next matches and win glory for their country.