Since the men's singles round of 16 at the Tokyo Olympic Badminton Tournament on July 29, Malaysian badminton brother Li Zijia has played 11 matches, with a total result of 6 wins and 5 losses.
On that day, Li Zijia ended his Olympic debut by losing 21-8, 19-21, 5-21 to China's famous Chinese star Chen Long, who was seeking to defend his title, in Tokyo.
Then, the players entered a period of rest, on September 26, Finland's Vantaa Sudirman Cup mixed team match, Li Zijia led the "Malaysian Youth Storm" to attack, reaching the top 4, And Xiao Li played a total of 4 games, with a record of 3 wins and 1 loss.
Then the game moved to the Thomas Cup, Malaysia only reached the top 8, and Li Zijia played 3 games with a score of 1 win and 2 losses.
Is Li Zijia too tired?
After the team competition to the Open, the first is the Super 1000 Danish Open, Li Zijia has won Wang Ziwei and Liu Guolun to advance to the top 8, but lost to danish East Olympic champion Acetrons here.
In the French Open of the Super 750 Tournament, Li Zijia lost to Singaporean brother Luo Jianyou in the first round, breaking out a cold goal. The BWF website describes the battle as "one of the upsets of the day".
Doubles has a new direction The singles problem is also quite serious
The Malaysian Badminton Association has re-hired former Indonesian Men's Doubles champion Resy Manaki as deputy coaching director, which makes people happy to find a new direction in doubles, but also can't help but worry: the Malaysian singles problem is actually quite serious.
Take the world no. 8 Li Zijia as an example, his opponents such as Yang Can (41), Wang Ziwei (10) and Liu Guolun (33) who won in these 11 games are all lower than him in the world rankings; 1 win and 2 losses against Momota Xiandou, 1 win and 1 loss against Jin Ting, and 1 loss against Arcelor, indicating that Li Zijia still has obvious shortcomings when encountering higher ranked opponents.
At present, there is more Luo Jianyou, who is ranked 40 in the world; in fact, in the first round of the Danish Open last week, Luo Jianyou lost 19 to 21, 14 to 21 to Arcelor, who trained in Dubai, he has already seen Luo Jianyou's improvement.
The big victory sounded the alarm bell Luo Jianyou made obvious progress
In that game, Luo Jianyou's play and performance won recognition, and it was not easy for Arcelong to win; first of all, Luo Jianyou's overall mental outlook was very confident, and he was aggressive in shooting the ball; in addition, he was more comprehensive than before, both defensively and offensively, in terms of speed and strength, there were obvious differences in speed and strength.
This shows that you are improving, and others are also improving.
The 6 wins of these 11 games can certainly boost Li Zijia's confidence, but 5 losses are a loud wake-up call. After all, Li Zijia only played against 8 opponents in these 11 matches, and many opponents did not match, such as Jonatan of Indonesia, Antonsen of Denmark, Zhou Tiancheng of Chinese Taipei, Shi Yuqi of China, and wu Jialang and Li Zhuoyao, the two masters of Hong Kong.
Perhaps, what Li Zijia needs more is to "pause for a moment", and then work with the coaching team to summarize and dissect this time for 6 wins and 5 losses.