Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Wang Xiaoxiao
Early this morning Beijing time, the Super 750-level French Badminton Open ended its first day of competition in Paris. The Chinese team played five games that day, and many players lost against strong opponents. Only women's singles players Han Yue and Wang Zhiyi passed the "first round".
The Chinese team achieved an excellent record of 4 championships and 2 Asian Games in the Danish Open last week. This week, the whole team moved to Paris to compete in high-level events "back to back". On the first day of the game, three (pairs) players in national badminton failed, and the score gap was not big. Among them, the women's singles "little flower" Zhang Yiman lost to the fifth-ranked world champion Malin 18-21, 21-23, and failed to win four times with the latter; the men's singles Zhao Junpeng lost to the 14th-ranked Hong Kong player Wu Jialang , and also lost in three confrontations with the opponent; mixed doubles rookie Guo Xinwa/ Zhang Shuxian fought hard for three games, and was reversed by the eighth-ranked world Malaysian combination Chen Jianming/Lai Peijun, who was ranked eighth-ranked world , 21-8, 20-22, 22-24.
The only Chinese team who staged a good show of "weak defeating the strong" on that day was the women's singles player Han Yue. She ranked 19th in the world and fought for 70 minutes, defeating the No. 7 seed and Thai star Li Meimiao 23-21, 13-21, 21-18. In the Denmark last week, Han Yue performed well, defeating Marin and other good players to enter the semi-finals, and eventually lost to teammates He Bingjiao . Starting again this week, the "Little Flower" who will turn 23 years old will continue to have a good state.
In addition, the world's 11th-ranked women's singles rookie Wang Zhiyi swept 21-12 in two games, ranking far lower than his Danish player Jacobson, and successfully advanced to the second round.
Image source of this article: Badminton World Federation official Weibo
