The 100-year All England Tournament has created countless legends, and generations of talented stars have emerged in the All England Tournament, some of them eventually became a generation of kings, but some of them were only short-lived, perhaps because of that short-lived beauty, so that fans will always remember them.
Former successor: Liu Xiaolong /Qiu Zihan
In the 2013 All England Championships, Guo Yu sent 4 pairs of men's doubles pairs to compete, and Liu Xiaolong/Qiu Zihan was the most obscure pair. However, after Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng withdrew from the competition, and after the two pairs of world champions Zhang Nan/Chai Biao and Shen Ye/Hong Wei upset the first round, the dark horse Liu Xiaolong/Qiu Zihan suddenly emerged and defeated Bowie/Morganson, Asan/Hendra, Hayakawa Kenichi/Endo Daiyu and other strong files to win the championship.
This is their first super championship, and it is also the third Pair of Chinese Men's Doubles to win the All England Championship after Li Yongbo/Tian Bingyi, Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng, and the Olympic champion Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng also started their later glory from the All England Championship, which shows that the significance of this All England gold medal is extraordinary.
After the Sudirman Cup, the two helped the Chinese team win the championship in the final. For a time, the media and fans began to focus on Liu Xiaolong /Qiu Zihan, and they also had the name of the group like Cai Yun/ Fu Haifeng - the "Zilong" combination, which was regarded by the fans as the successor of the "Wind and Cloud Combination". However, the process of growing up is often not smooth, after that, Liu Xiaolong/Qiu Zihan fell into a bottleneck period.
In the next two years, in the talented Chinese badminton team, they have never achieved eye-catching results again, and the aura of the successor of the "Fengyun" combination has faded from them. Although the two broke out again in 2015 to win the men's doubles runner-up at the World Championships, there were Zhang Nan/Fu Haifeng, Chai Biao/Hong Wei in front, and then there were young players who continued to rise, and in 2016, the two lost the qualification for the Rio Olympics and finally retired.
Fighting nation: Ivanov/Sosunov
The biggest dark horse of the 2016 All England Tournament was the Russian duo of Ivanov/Sosunov. The two defeated Liu Xiaolong/Qiu Zihan, Li Longda/Liu Yanxing, and Daiyu Endo/Kenichi Hayakawa to win the championship and become the first all-England men's doubles champion in Russian history. The two happily danced the Maori haka dance on the field, which became the first anecdotes reported by the media that year.
Ivanov is 197cm tall and Sosunov is 184cm tall, and at first glance it is not too much to think that they play basketball. It is undeniable that they have a solid foundation. Cai Yun commented: "This man's name is Ivanov, he is not a coward at all, and his body is full of the belligerent blood of the Soviet Red Army. He is athletic, tall and agile, with unparalleled impact, his footwork is very Asian, his pumping skills are skilled, he has a strong sense of forward, and there is no obvious shortcoming in any area of the field. ”
But in the European Championships that followed, It took Sosunov months to recover from an accidental Achilles tendon rupture. Since then, due to the good recovery from the injury, the two have also participated in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, but lost to Chai Biao/Hong Wei to stop in the quarterfinals. Since then, there have been no bright achievements, and they have been "lost to everyone".
India's first all-England champion: Goby Chand
Before joining the All England in 2001, Gobby Chand had been racing in the badminton world for many years, but he had never won any major competitions, and the only highlight of his career was that in 1997, he beat Barcelona Olympic gold medalist Wei Renfang in the Whole England.
But it was such a player who had always been unknown, but at the age of 27, he exploded with amazing energy: in the 2001 All England Championship, Goby Chand won the championship unexpectedly.
In that all-England competition, Goby Chand defeated Olympic champion Ji Xinpeng, Dane Gade and China's Chen Hong to win the championship, becoming the first Indian athlete to win the All England championship in 21 years. After winning the championship, Goby Chand began to be familiar to more and more people.
But good luck has since been with Gobi Chand, who suffered a decline in performance due to an injury in training and finally announced his retirement the following year at the end of 2003. But in recent years, he has cultivated famous stars such as Hindhoo, Neville and Srikante, bringing him back to the fans' sights.
Former dragon slayer warrior: Xue Song
In the 2016 All England Championship, the name Xue Song was particularly loud. Maybe you haven't even thought about it, the person who defeated the world's first dragon and the Danish golden boy Acesaron is actually a young general you have never even heard of.
In the 1/8 final of the All England Championship that year, Xue Song and Chen Long met, and everyone thought that this was a game without suspense, but the result was unexpected. The next day, when everyone was still talking about whether Chen Long had "conceded" behavior, Xue Song used his strength to make everyone shut up, and he defeated Arcelor in the quarterfinals! This battle made him a real dragon slayer warrior. Although he lost to big brother Lin Dan in the semi-finals, he won Lin Dan's praise.
However, the tragedy occurred at the 2016 Indian Super Tournament, in the match against Momota Kendou, who had to give up the game due to the tearing of the meniscus on the outside in the lead. After that, Xue Song returned from injury to compete, but suffered many rounds of travel, and has since faded out of the feathers.
Malaysia's first all-England men's singles champion: Hafez
The 2003 All England Championship was seen by the outside world as a "four masters" battle headed by Tawfik, Gad, Huang Zonghan, and Chen Hong. However, among the four people, three were pulled off their horses, leaving only Chen Hong to advance to the final. Standing across the net from him was Hafez.
Hafez was thirty miles away from the world ranking at the time, but he did not expect that he would pass the hurdle all the way, and in the final, he was even more imposing, spending 53 minutes to defeat the first seed Chen Hong, for Malaysia's dream of being the men's singles champion of the All England Championship for nearly 37 years, and was regarded as a national hero by the Malaysian people for a time. Hafez, who won the title at the age of twenty, won the title as a non-seed, a downfall that is still considered to have created the biggest shock in the 100-year history of the All England Race.
In the subsequent competition for qualification for the Athens Olympics, Hafez lost to Roslin, Huang Zonghan and Li Zongwei. Coupled with the reform of the international badminton system and injuries, in 2013, Hafez had to abandon the men's singles to move to the men's doubles, becoming a free man to compete in the international arena, and finally retired.
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