outstanding! The 23-year-old genius of The National Feather broke out at the end of the three years of silence, and defeated the Olympic champion to become the biggest dark horse

On June 25, Beijing time, the Chinese badminton team held a simulated confrontation of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and in a focus battle of the men's singles, Liu Haichao defeated Chen Long 2-1, which aroused strong concern from netizens.

Liu Haichao, 23 years old, is 1.82 meters tall and is another men's singles rising star trained by the Shanghai badminton team. Compared with his peers, Liu Haichao was exposed to badminton professional training later, and did not enter the junior sports school for professional training until the fifth grade of primary school. Because of his hard work and good talent, Liu Haichao, who is tall and well coordinated, quickly catches up and gradually emerges in various domestic competitions. However, Liu Haichao's road to the national team can be described as quite bumpy. In the first selection match, he was too nervous to play at the level; the second time, he was forced to withdraw from the competition due to a waist injury. As a result, it was not until the beginning of 2018 that Liu Haichao was finally successfully selected for the national second team with the first place in the selection competition.

As the saying goes, "good dishes are not afraid of late, good words are not too slow", although the pace of entering the national team is slower than that of peers, Liu Haichao has achieved "corner overtaking" with hard work and sweat. At the 2018 Scottish Open Badminton Championships, Liu Haichao, who started from the qualifiers, won the first BWF Tour title of his sporting career with a wave of eight consecutive wins, becoming the second Chinese player to win the men's singles title at the Scottish Open after Zhao Jianhua in 1984. Unfortunately, the follow-up development of Liu Haichao after the blockbuster was not as expected, coupled with the suspension of various BWF competitions in the past two years, he also gradually faded out of the fans' sight. This time, he was arranged to play the Tokyo Olympics simulation match with Chen Long, and from the side, it can also be seen that the coaching staff attaches great importance to Liu Haichao, believing that he has the ability to bring trouble to the rio Olympic gold medalists in order to achieve the purpose of military training.

After defeating "Big Brother", Liu Haichao's performance was also recognized and affirmed by Chen Long. It is expected that Liu Haichao can take advantage of this victory to boost morale and self-confidence, and carry the national men's singles banner in the future.