On the evening of August 1, Tokyo's Musashino Forest Sports Plaza staged a wonderful Olympic badminton women's singles final. China's Chen Yufei defeated Chinese Taipei's Dai Ziying 2-1 to win the Olympic title for the first time and win the second gold medal of the Olympic Games for Guo Yu. This is also the second Olympic women's singles award after 9 years. Chen Yufei became the fourth women's singles Olympic champion in China after Gong Zhichao, Zhang Ning and Li Xuerui. After winning the championship, Chen Yufei said: "Everything is like a dream, it feels so unreal." In this way, he became an Olympic champion. ”
On this trip to Tokyo, Chen Yufei's road to the final was not smooth. If her 2-0 win over South Korean rookie Ahn Seok Ying in the quarter-finals was quite smooth, then the most resistant hurdle, or the most thrilling scene, in her rush to the final and even the final victory, was the duel with teammate He Bingjiao in the semifinals. It was also a sister dispute between Guo Yu, Chen Yufei worked hard and tenaciously until the decider to win the game, and once injured in the game, he was still limping after leaving. But in any case, the first time to participate in the Olympic Games to reach the final, Chen Yufei's performance can actually be said to be a success.
Chen Yufei was injured at one point in the semi-final with He Bingjiao
Of course, reaching the final is definitely not Chen Yufei's ultimate goal. You know, the last time The national featherweight women's singles Olympic champion was in London 9 years ago, when the champion was Li Xuerui. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the title was won by Spain's Marin. Chen Yufei is only one step away from her personal gold medal, and only one step away from helping Guo Yu win back the women's singles gold medal after 9 years, and her heart has long been full of the belief of victory.
Chen Yufei and Dai Ziying have played 18 times before, and the latter has won 15 games, and from the record of the hand, Chen Yufei is completely at a disadvantage. But that represents only the past, and now it is no longer what it used to be. Since the beginning of 2019, Chen Yufei has become different, that year Chen Yufei was 21 years old, she reached the world series finals 7 times and won all of them, the winning rate of the finals is 100%, Chen Yufei's world first ranking is not a waste, it is based on her own strength step by step. Now that Chen Yufei at the Tokyo Olympics is 23 years old and has a more mature psychological state, although Dai Ziying is indeed a strong opponent, her performance in the World Series is easy to drop the chain, but also Chen Yufei has improved her self-confidence before the final. Now in the final field of the Olympic Games, Chen Yufei defeated her previous "bitter lord" to win the championship, and her harvest is that in the future, whether from technical tactics or psychology, Chen Yufei will be the world's No.1.
Born in 1998, Chen Yufei entered the Zhejiang provincial team at the age of 8 and was selected for the national team at the age of 14. However, after being promoted to the national team, Chen Yufei was also returned to the Zhejiang team. Because during the national team training, Chen Yufei even appeared to be unable to beat the provincial team players, and her mood at that time was also very depressed. However, after hard work, Chen Yufei achieved good results in the transfer competition only three months later and returned to the national team again. Guo Yu also has an allusion, that is, when Chen Yufei was still young when she first entered the national team, she always couldn't beat He Bingjiao, who was one year older, and was always suppressed by the latter. It was not until 2017, when 19-year-old Chen Yufei won the championship in the women's singles final of the Tianjin National Games, that she officially determined her position as the first place in the domestic women's singles, and since then, Chen Yufei has also begun to have the upper hand in the hands of He Bingjiao in domestic and international competitions. In the match against old enemy Dai Ziying, Chen Yufei also became victorious, and in the 2019 BWF Pro Tour Finals, Chen Yufei defeated Dai Ziying 2-1 and won the women's singles championship. On January 12, 2020, at the Malaysian Badminton Masters, Chen Yufei won the championship after defeating Dai Ziying 2-0, breaking the heart demon.
In the 2019 BWF Pro Tour Finals, Chen Yufei defeated Dai Ziying 2-1 to win the women's singles championship
Chen Yufei's impression to the outside world is simple, kind, easy-going, and cheerful, and the Jiangnan atmosphere is particularly obvious in her. And people with good personalities, luck will also be extra careful. In the five-year cycle from the end of the Rio Olympics to the Tokyo Olympics, it can be said that not only Chen Yufei, but also the entire national feather has benefited. In the trough for a long time, in addition to the mixed doubles, the national feathers have almost no projects to hand, and the embarrassment of green and yellow is particularly obvious. However, in the extra year, Chen Yufei seized the opportunity, and the whole Guoyu also seized the opportunity, and the 18-month completely closed training allowed everyone to undergo psychological and spiritual training, and the technical level was also improved. Chen Yufei worked hard and wrote his name on the list of Olympic champions and heroes of Guoyu.
Text/Beiqing - Beijing headline reporter Liu Ailin
Source: Beijing Toutiao Client