There is only more than a week left until the Badminton World Championships, and the preparations of each team have entered the most critical stage. On Wednesday this week, the Badminton World Federation held a draw ceremony for the five individual events of the World Championships, and all contestants were successfully placed. Before the draw, the World Badminton Federation also updated the list of withdrawals. Among them, 4 people in the men's singles retired due to various reasons. According to the rules, the top four men's singles replacements successfully got the chance to participate, including Japanese rising star Kodai Naraoka.
Among the four people who retired from the men's singles, including Indonesia's third singles Restavito, he retired due to injury in the previous Southeast Asian series and was unable to recover, so he had no choice but to withdraw. Canada's top player, Yang Can, was injured during his previous participation in the Commonwealth Games. In addition, Thailand's Kosit and Poland's Mike all withdrew from the competition for some reason. In terms of substitutes, Huang Zhiyong of Malaysia , Kodai Naraoka of Japan, Valdoyo of Indonesia and the famous player Huang Yongqi of Hong Kong, China became the lucky ones and got the opportunity to participate. In the latest replacement order, China's Sun Feixiang ranks first. If someone else withdraws from the men's singles in the future, Sun Feixiang is expected to replace him.
With the replacement of Kodai Naraoka, the Japanese men's singles achieved the full quota of four players in this World Championships, and thus achieved the Japanese team's goal of fully participating in all five individual events, becoming the only team among all participating teams. Get a full roster of participating teams. The men's team of the Japanese team is led by the first brother Kento Momota , plus Kanta Tsuneyama and Kenta Nishimoto.
In the Japanese women's singles, the world's number one Akane Yamaguchi is led, plus world champion Nozomi Okuhara, Aya Ohhori and Takahashi Sayaka. In men's doubles, the defending champion Takuro Hoki is led by Yugo Kobayashi, Teru Koga/Taiichi Saito, Yoshinori Takeuchi/Keichiro Matsui, Hiroyuki Okamura/Masayuki Onodera. In women's doubles, four pairs of Fukushima Yuki / Hirota Ayaka , Nagahara Wakana / Matsumoto Mayu , Shida Chihiro /Matsuyama Naomi, Nakanishi Takaei /Iwanaga Suzu are participating. . In mixed doubles, Yuta Watanabe / Arisa Higashino, Yuki Kaneko / Misaki Matsutomo, Kyohei Yamashita/Naru Shinoya, Daiki Midorikawa/Natsu Saito.
This year's Badminton World Championships were held in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese team playing at home once again became the focus of attention. At the Tokyo Olympics a year ago, the Japanese team was the biggest favorite before the game. It had the ability to win the gold medal in five individual events. Therefore, the Korean head coach of the Japanese team at the time Park Joo-bong made a bold statement before the game that he would win the gold medal. The slogan was 5 gold medals, but in the end they failed miserably at home and only won 1 bronze medal in mixed doubles. At this year’s World Championships, the Japanese team’s goal remains unchanged and is still aiming to win the championship in all individual events. I wonder if it can achieve its goal this year?
