South Korea's No. 35 South Korean player Heo Woo-hee lost to Chinese Taipei's Zhou Tiancheng in the final four of the French Open Badminton Tournament on Saturday (30th) and missed the medal. Although out of the game, Xu Youxi's recent performance is still in the spotlight, he admitted that he experienced a long period of silence before the Tokyo Olympics, and once wanted to give up badminton.
After the 26-year-old Heo Youxi defeated Japanese champion Kento Momota in the Tokyo Olympic group stage and unexpectedly eliminated Momota, the two met again in the Top 8 of the Toyo Cup earlier this month, and finally Heo Youxi defeated his opponent in two straight sets to win two consecutive games, And Heo Said happily said at the time: "The first victory may be just luck, which allows me to prove that I am the same level as Momota Kendou."
Since the Tokyo Olympics defeated Momota, Heo Youxi has been playing steadily, not only leading the South Korean boy band to brave the Sudirman Cup top 4, the TangYou Cup boy band even if it stopped in the quarterfinals, still pushed Japan's "first brother" Momota, Xu Youxi admitted that since the Tokyo Olympics, "to be able to compete with excellent players, their confidence has also improved."
Although he is a "first brother" in South Korea, Heo Woo-hee has almost no masterpieces before the Tokyo Olympics. Although he won the bronze medal and gold medal of the World Youth Championships in 2012 and 2013, his results were not impressive, "After I won the World Youth League, my performance has been declining, my body can not follow my ideas, I once wanted to give up, I felt that I could not continue to play." 」 He continued: "Since the Olympics, every game I have felt different, psychologically, I feel fresh in every game."
Heo Yu-hee lost 10 kilograms in order to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics, "The Olympics are like rebirth for me, before the Olympics I lost 10 kilograms, my physical condition and mental condition feel much better, I feel that I need to be more relaxed in the game, when I lose, I will be sad and think for a long time, and the same thing happened to win, I was caught up in the mood of the game for too long, so I just need to focus on the moment." 」
In addition to Zhou Tiancheng's defeat of Xu Youxi, the French Open Men's Singles Round of 4, another men's singles final 4 battle, Momota Kendou faced the world's 13th teammate Tokiyama Kenta, the two fiercely fought two sets to a 1:1 draw, Momota, who was forced into the decider, announced that he would abandon the match and give up the final seat to Changshan, after the game, the Japanese ball king apologized to supporters in a social media post, saying that the abandonment was due to a waist injury.