On October 16, the final day of the 2022 BWF International Challenge Indonesia Malang Station event kicked off. In the three matches that have ended, all national badminton players played. In the end, Weng Hongyang defeated his teammate Lei Lanxi in the men's singles final and won the second championship of the season; Gao Fangjie returned to the international arena after three years and won the championship in the first round. In the final, she defeated the Japanese players. The mixed doubles young player combination Jiang Zhenbang / Wei Yaxin regretted losing to the host Indonesian combination and won the runner-up. At this point, the national badminton event ended with 2 championships and 2 Asian Games.
Indonesia International Challenge is a low-level event, and the Chinese badminton team continues to send players and young players who need to earn points to improve the world ranking to participate. While training newcomers in the team, they also increase the thickness of their reserve strength. The players from the main team, including Sun Feixiang , Weng Hongyang, Lei Lanxi, Gao Fangjie, He Jiting / Zhou Haodong , Ren Xiangyu / Tan Qiang , all played in this event, but after the competition a few days ago, only Weng Hongyang, Lei Lanxi, Gao Fangjie and the mixed doubles young player Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin, entered the finals.
men's singles matchup in the first final that day. Two new stars of the Chinese badminton team, Weng Hongyang and Lei Lanxi, eliminated two Korean star , Sun Wanhu and Quan Yichen in the semi-finals yesterday, and successfully met, helping the Chinese badminton team to win the championship and runner-up in advance. For Weng Hongyang, who ranks 47th in the world, this season he won the championship as a dark horse in the Super 500-level South Korean Open, helping the national badminton team achieve a breakthrough in the men's singles championship drought. In this final, he easily won the duel with Lei Lanxi 21-10, thus winning the men's singles championship in the second international competition of this season.
The second mixed doubles match, the Chinese badminton young player Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin faced the top seed host Indonesia combination, Deyang/Videojiajia, ranked 57th in the world. In the end, the two lost 18-21, 20-22, with very close scores, and missed the end of the international competition and won the runner-up.
Women's singles match in the third final, the national badminton player Gao Fangjie faced off against Japanese player County Siliko , the latter ranked 83rd in the world. Since Gao Fangjie bid farewell to the international competition due to injury in 2019, he has not played in international competitions for more than three years. After returning this time, Gao Fangjie was in good shape and won consecutive games. In the final, he faced the Japanese players and swept easily again with 21-9 and 21-11, winning the championship, and declared his return to the king.
