Sports Weekly all-media reporter Li Ting
Before the Tokyo Olympics, Huang Yaqiong said that she would not live up to everyone's expectations, she did not live up to it, and Zheng Siwei joined hands to advance to the mixed doubles final, and teammate Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping successfully achieved the meeting, they guarded the status and honor of the Chinese mixed doubles, but standing on the podium of the runner-up, watching the national flag rise, listening to the national anthem, the highest national flag, the familiar national anthem in the ear, but not because of themselves.
Suffered setbacks and defeated the Su Cup
Obviously, you can rely on your appearance, but you have to rely on strength, which means that Huang Yaqiong, who has a beautiful appearance and has a strong strength. Learning to play is not too early, and I like to watch others play badminton since I was a child, but I didn't pick up a racket until I was eight years old to receive training. Talent is not outstanding, Zhejiang team's sister Wang Lin said that this beautiful little sister is "her physical condition when she was a child was not very good, as long as the amount of high-intensity confrontation will appear to be very difficult." The results are not top-notch, after coming to the national team, youth and low-level competitions, Huang Yaqiong is just "fair".
In the women's doubles and men's doubles, Huang Yaqiong officially fixed with Lu Kai in 2015 to compete in the mixed doubles arena. In 2016, the two won two super championships hand in hand, and in 2017, they won and lost with another pair, Zheng Siwei/Chen Qingchen, until the macau open and the reorganization of Zheng Siwei, huang Yaqiong really showed her excellent organizational skills in the first half of the mixed doubles.
Why is it split and reorganized? The most important reason was the fiasco in the final decider of the 2017 Su Cup. At that time, after China and South Korea were tied in the first four sets, Huang Yaqiong and Lu Kai came under pressure, they could only win and could not lose, but in the face of the crazy Choi Ri Kyu / Cai Youyao, they were powerless to return to heaven and failed to reflect their value in the battle of life and death.
Watching the Koreans flock to the court to cheer, Huang Yaqiong's brain was blank, and she did not dare to look at the teammates sitting behind the coach and the front row of the audience, because "I am so sorry for them, we are the first time to compete, but some teammates are the last to participate in the Su Cup, I feel very sorry." Mechanically walking to the mixed mining area, hearing various questions, Huang Yaqiong couldn't help but cry, she picked up a towel to cover her face, and did not look up for a long time.
"IELTS" joined hands to re-enter the expedition
After returning to Beijing, Huang Yaqiong had some resistance to training, and after practicing, she also cleaned up the people in a hurry, so it was inevitable that there would be injuries, at this time, the coach, friends, and family gave her a lot of advice, enlightenment and encouragement, after a few days of rest, Huang Yaqiong adjusted her mood and started again: "I am still young, this defeat also has a positive side, let me know how to do better when I encounter difficulties on the field, I still have to have confidence in myself." ”
So Guo Yu re-created a mixed doubles combination like "IELTS", and the two of them also began to dominate the arena with Huang Yaqiong's ability to organize attacks in the front court and Zheng Siwei's ability to quickly press down at the back. In 2018, Huang Yaqiong and her partner won the World Championship for the first time, and at the BWF Annual Awards Ceremony at the end of the year, Huang Yaqiong, who wore a ball head and light makeup, won the Best Female Athlete Award.
In 2019 they continue to shine more highlights. After winning the All England Open, Huang Yaqiong and Zheng Siwei's season points have exceeded 110,000 points, which is almost impossible to achieve in the five badminton events. At the World Championships in Basel in the same year, the duo successfully defended their titles, but in the next few Open Games, they fell into weakness for a while.
Huang Yaqiong has always been very sober: "We did win easily before, but everyone will study you, so every opponent in every game is a challenge, which also requires us to have new breakthroughs." However, at the end of the year, Huang Yaqiong once again won the BWF Female Athlete of the Year award, this time, she still wears perfect makeup and a black dress, but her hair is no longer a cute ball head, but a more elegant shawl hair.
The postponement of the Olympic Games has changed
No one thought of the sudden change in the world in 2020, and Huang Yaqiong and Zheng Siwei drew a pause button for their international arena with the results of the all-England championship and no top eight, followed by endless training and waiting. During this period, Huang Yaqiong and his teammates faced the unknown future, and could only do themselves day after day, and it was also this period that made Huang Yaqiong feel that he had gained a lot.
"There is no competition, you can make up for the lack of training, you can re-understand yourself, the coach has put a lot of thought into me, helped me arrange more scientific training methods technically, helped me remove some obstacles psychologically, although during this period the partner was injured and we could not play together, but I personally practiced a lot, improved my own comprehensiveness and stability, reserved a good physical foundation for the Tokyo Olympics, and improved and made breakthroughs in technology, tactics and mentality."
It is said that Huang Yaqiong has stood at the highest peak with Zheng Siwei, and the Olympic mixed doubles gold medal is almost a hand to hand, but Huang Yaqiong will not think much at all: "We are really relatively advanced in terms of results alone, but I know how many difficulties there are in Tokyo, and we are not enough to say how high we stand now." Mixed doubles does win is a matter of course, but competitive sports do not deserve, I hope that I can play at the best level in the Olympic arena, live up to the trust of coaches, family, fans, but also give myself an account. ”
In Tokyo, when badminton was unpopular, the men's singles top seed and the men's doubles top seed were out, the mixed doubles top seed has been moving forward steadily, and they are also concerned about Momota's defeat, which makes the two "alarm bells". So after making more difficult preparations, they made it 2-0, and even in the quarterfinals, they did not drag the game into the decider against their rival Jordan Melati, who had defeated them.
Until the final with teammate Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping, the two sides finally played three rounds, but this time, this most critical time, the balance of victory tended to Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping, indeed, the strength of the two sides is between Bo Zhong, the Olympic final, the fight is strength, fight is also the mentality, this final, "IELTS" seems to be a little nervous, the mistakes are much more than ever, and finally can only watch the teammates win the Olympic championship with a slight advantage.
Silver medal, is a pity, but the silver medal, but also certification and honor, closed training preparation, Zheng Siwei because of injury training intermittently, many times, Huang Yaqiong can only practice spontaneously, because Huang Yaqiong and Zheng Siwei, Guoyu in the Tokyo Olympic cycle to maintain the advantage of mixed doubles, is because of their silver medal, so that China's mixed doubles advantage is fully displayed. Regrets still have a chance to make up, "IELTS" can still be over.