The Chinese badminton team still failed to get out of the embarrassing situation.
was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the most recently ended All-English Open, while the women's doubles were eliminated in the semi-finals, both of which were the worst results in All-English Open in 22 years.
On March 17, Beijing time, the BWF also completed the draw of the 2017 Sudimman Cup in Kuala Lumpur. The Chinese team encountered Hong Kong and Thailand in the group. Although the group opponents were not strong, the situation of the Sudimman Cup in the national badminton team was still serious.
has lagging behind in playing style, has thorough research by its opponents, has talent and is not connected, and the Mesozoic gap... It is no exaggeration to say that the female feather has reached the most dangerous situation, and the entire crisis has lasted for 4 years.
During the Tokyo Olympic cycle, how should Chinese badminton teams face technical and tactical transformation? Faced with the major changes in the overall women's singles style, can the Chinese team come from behind?
Sun Yu is at the All-English Open.
has lasted for 4 years
This year's All England Open. Since Li Xuerui is still recovering from injury, the national badminton women's singles sent three young players born in the 1990s, Sun Yu, Chen Yufei, and He Bingjiao, .
In the 1/8 final, 20-year-old He Bingjiao lost to the Olympic champion and World Championship double champion Ma Lin and was eliminated early. After Sun Yu defeated his teammate Chen Yufei, he was reversed by Japanese player Yamaguchi Akane in the quarter-finals, and since then the national badminton women's singles were wiped out.
In the history of the All England Championship, Chinese players won the women's singles championship 21 times and won the runner-up 24 times. Even from 1995 to 2013, Chinese women's singles players were able to reach the finals.
However, none of the national badminton women's singles entered the semi-finals this time, tying the worst record in the All-British Open since 1995. The same situation occurred in 2013, when Li Xuerui, Wang Yihan, Han Li, Jiang Yanjiao and Wang Shixian also failed to enter the semi-finals.
He Bingjiao.
That competition was also the beginning of the decline of Chinese women's singles. In the subsequent 2013 World Championships, Indanon defeated Li Xuerui to win the championship, which also ended China's 14-year monopoly on the women's singles championship in the World Championships.
. When Wang Yihan and Wang Shixian withdrew from the national team, Li Xuerui's injury has not been cured and the newcomer is not enough to take the lead, the decline of the women's singles seems to continue.
is not only a women's singles, but also a lot of problems with the former gold medal guarantee for women's doubles.
In the history of the All-British Open, the Chinese team won the championship 18 times in 21 years, and also won seven consecutive championships from 2009 to 2015. Even the national badminton women's doubles never missed the final before this competition.
But since last year, the national badminton women's doubles have been missing the championship in this traditional advantage event.
In this All England Championship, China sent five pairs of players to participate, but in the end, only Bao Yixin// Yu Xiaohan entered the semi-finals, also setting the worst record in the All England Championship in 22 years.
Chen Yufei is at the All-English Open.
"factory" mode has been found by opponents
In fact, as early as the eve of the 2015 World Championships, Li Yongbo admitted that "the women's team's playing style is lagging behind", but for two years, the team seems to have not come up with any solution.
A retired badminton player said in an interview with a reporter from The Paper that today's women's badminton world is roughly divided into two schools. One is women's masculine offensive play, and the other is the traditional rushing and pulling hanging play.
"Like the two players in the Olympic finals of last year, Sindhu and Ma Lin are the representatives of the first type, and this style of play has gradually become the mainstream. The second type is represented by Okuhara Hope , Yamaguchi Akane and Wang Shixian, etc.."
The retired athlete is currently a badminton coach. He also agrees with the outdated statement of the national badminton women's playing style. "Now basically every player's playing style is offensive style, unlike in the past, there were diversified styles such as pulling and pulling and pulling and attacking ."
Li Xuerui was injured in the Rio Olympics.
"The female singles players in my country are basically the same training mode, which is a bit factory-like, so this way of playing is easier to be understood by the opponent."
's view is also consistent with former women's singles world champion Xie Xingfang . The latter had ruled the women's feathers with Olympic champion Zhang Ning for many years. In an interview with "Sports +", she said that the current women's singles environment can no longer be the same as their era.
"My era was the smoothest era, but it may be that our rule period was too long, and everyone's consciousness was numb and there were few changes. Foreign players kept studying us and surpassed us in material selection and technical training. "
Regarding the decline in the level of women's doubles, the industry coaches believe that there are problems in offense and defense and hair extensions, and these are problems that exist in both the men's and women's teams.
"The current female doubles players have decreased compared to the previous players in the offense and defense. For example, the previous Yu Yang , Wang Xiaoli and Zhao Yunlei have very good offense and defense rhythms, and there are almost no such excellent female doubles players now. "
Bao Yixin/Yu Xiaohan entered the semi-finals.
Young players have strength, but lack experience?
In the Chinese badminton team, the issue of renewal is equally important. Some young players lack experience in terms of experience and urgently need to use competitions to train.
In the latest ranking of the World Badminton Federation, only two Chinese badminton women's singles ranked in the top ten, among which Sun Yu ranked fourth, the best result of this young player born in 1994 was the 2015 Singapore Open champion.
In comparison, a Chinese Taipei player born in the same year as Sun Yu Dai Tsingying is currently the world's number one and the champion of the All England Championship. The Olympic champion Ma Lin, who is only one year older than the two, won the World Championships as early as 2014.
, the once rock-stable women's doubles faces the same problem. Since Ge Fei and , Gu Jun won the first Olympic gold medal for the Chinese badminton team, it has opened the glorious era of women's doubles, and they were only in their early 20s when they won the championship.
, however, in the eyes of some industry insiders, the failure of recent games is a good thing for the national badminton women's team, "because it is the first year of the new Olympic cycle, the sooner the problem can be discovered, the better solution can be. "
Li Yongbo also admitted in an interview that there is a problem of renewal in the team. He believes that the national badminton women's team, especially the young players of the women's doubles, are capable, but have some experience.
"If young players want to become the world's top athletes, they need a lot of training, including spiritual, technical and tactical, and strong desire to win, and they still need to be cultivated in all aspects. "
So is there a lot of room for the national badminton team to change?
Xie Xingfang is not pessimistic about this. She believes that the advantage of the women's team lies in having a good training environment, but she also admits that it will take some time for the team to recover its "vigoration".
"If the Chinese female badminton team wants to return to its peak period, it may still take a certain amount of time to settle down. ”
