At last weekend's Danish Open, Acelon won 2-1 at home to Momota Kendou amid the cheers of his wife, daughter and family, and the more important significance was that he ended his 13-game losing streak against Momota Kendou.
Coupled with the Tokyo Olympics victory and Arceloron's 49 consecutive victories, it seems that he has become a new generation of tenno-level players, and the era of Momota Kendou is really gone? Not necessarily in my opinion.
Momota Kendou, who was ridiculed by fans as the "gambling king", was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics for illegal gambling with his brother Tian Erxian and missed the Olympic Games of that year, and gradually became the world's first after his comeback in 2017, and opened the road of rage in the 2019 season, winning 11 championship titles in the All England Championship, Singapore Open, Asian Championship, Japan Open, World Championship, China Open, Korea Open, Denmark Open, China Fuzhou Open, and BWF Finals. Breaking the record of 10 crowns in a single season previously set by Li Zongwei.
Momota Kendou, who is gaining momentum, rubbed shoulders with the god of death in January 2020, encountered a car accident on the way to the airport in a commercial vehicle after winning the Malaysian Masters, and was infected with the new crown in early 2021, a series of blows, coupled with the long-distance battle, Momota's psychological state was greatly affected, and the Tokyo Olympics directly upset the group stage.
Since the end of the Tokyo Olympics in August, Momota Kendou has signed up for almost all the competitions, including the sudirman Cup, the Thomas Cup, the Danish Open, and the French Open, which is underway this week, in an attempt to get back to his former form as soon as possible, but has lost to Li Zijia, Xu Youxi, Shi Yuqi and Arce Long, which is naturally far from his 2019 defeat.
I remember that in 2014, Li Zongwei was banned for 8 months by the BWF for "doping storm", and the player who almost occupied the world ranking position for six years from 2008 to 2014 fell all the way to 180th in the world ranking.
Unlike Kento Momota, Lee Returned in May 2015 due to his lower rankings, first participated in some low-level tournaments to earn points, defeating WittingHas and Wu Jialang to win the US and Canadian Open championships respectively.
However, Li Zongwei lost many times in some of the subsequent high-level matches, and was reversed by Chen Long in the third set of the Chinese Taipei Tournament in July, lost 0-2 to Chen Long in the final of the World Championships in August, lost to Lin Dan in the second round of the Japan Open in September, lost 0-2 to Xu Youxi in the first round of the Korean Open, and lost 0-2 to Wei Nan in the second round of the Danish Open in October.
Li Zongwei won the French Open in October 2015 and celebrated wildly
In october, at the French Open, Li Zongwei defeated Zhou Tiancheng 2-0 to win the championship, and finally stood on the championship podium of the high-level event five months after the lifting of the ban, and in November, the China Open final reversed Lin Dan in three sets, achieving the first victory over Lin Dan in 4 years, winning the gold medal of the China Open for the first time, and the state picked up.
The subsequent plot is also known to everyone, Li Zongwei returned to the world number one in 2016 and won the runner-up of the men's singles in the Rio Olympic Badminton.
After a car accident in January 2020 and a tokyo Olympics in August 2021, Momota Kendou spent 19 months.
It can be said that today's Taotian is similar to the situation of Li Zongwei, who experienced the "doping storm" in those years, or even more difficult. Park Joo Bong, the head coach of the Japanese team, also admitted that Momota is no longer at its peak and needs to change tactics after being studied by everyone.
Li Zongwei spent 5 months after lifting the ban to stand on the podium of the high-level event champion, the runner-up of the Danish Open For Momota from scratch, the most difficult moment has passed, all he needs to do is to participate more, accumulate more practical experience, stand on the podium as much as possible, and enhance self-confidence.
In the last 2 months of the season, Momota Kendou still has a lot of room for improvement, of course, the challenge is also very large, Andcelon is no longer the Acetron of the past.
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