On the evening of December 11, Beijing time, the 2022 BWF World Finals ushered in the final day of the final in Bangkok, Thailand. The Chinese badminton team won all three doubles events, bringing a successful end to the past season. Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong and Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan combination showed his dominance in the mixed doubles and women's doubles events. After winning the finals, they won 10 and 7 championships this season, and both won the most important World Championships. The new tower combination Liu Yuchen and Ou Yongyi won the men's doubles championship, which is a surprise and the future is full of hope.
men's doubles national badminton the only one who qualified for the finals Liu Yuchen/Ou Yongyi defeated Indonesian 2-1 in the finals, and won the year-end finals championship together with 5 wins in the group stage. This season, the Chinese "Twin Towers" combination, both above 1.90 meters tall, won three men's doubles championships in the Indonesia Open, the Australian Open and the year-end finals, and also won the runner-up in the German Open and the Korean Masters. The national badminton men's doubles finally had a world-class combination after more than a year of weakness. In the
mixed doubles event, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong also won 5 games and 5 wins in the finals, and had a relatively large advantage. However, he encountered some resistance when defeating his old opponent, Thailand's Dechabo /Shaxili combination in the finals, but "IELTS" was still superior and won the championship with 2-1. This season, the "IELTS" combination won 10 championships after joining hands again, including the mixed doubles champions of the two most important events, the World Championships and the Year-end Finals. Before the Tokyo World Championships, "IELTS" even won 38 consecutive victories, which was once called an invincible mix of mixed doubles.
But this event is a bit regrettable. Another pair of badminton teams, Tokyo Olympic champion Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping , has always been worrying, and has never returned to the peak state of last year's Olympics and National Games .
If there is only one doubles event that can be called a group advantage in the Chinese badminton team, it is the women's doubles. Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan's performance this season is stable, winning seven championships in a single season, and also won the Women's Doubles Championships for the World Championships for the rest of the year. This final also won all five games. In addition, Zheng Yu /Zhang Shuxian has made obvious progress. If the two Chinese pairs of the semi-finals were not drawn together again, they would probably have won the women's doubles championship and runner-up in the finals. These two pairs have formed a double insurance for the national badminton women's doubles to a certain extent.
Women's Singles event is a pity this time. Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao performed well in the group stage. He Bingjiao won 3 games in 3 games, and Chen Yufei defeated his strong rivals Yamaguchi Akane and An Xiying in a row, both of whom advanced to the semi-finals as first in the group. Unfortunately, under the new competition system of the finals, Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao won their old rivals in the semi-finals, but they lost to Akane Yamaguchi and and Dai Tsingying and respectively, and failed to get the right to the finals. This shows that the two girls in the Chinese badminton team have the strength of the top 5 women's singles in the world, but they still lack sufficient dominance and must further improve themselves. Fortunately, the two girls are not old, He Bingjiao is 25 years old, Chen Yufei is 24 years old, and they are both at the peak of their careers during the Paris Olympic cycle, and it is entirely possible to create new glory in the Olympics.
Chinese Badminton Association Chairman Zhang Jun once said that he would have the strength to win all hardware at the Paris Olympics. It now seems that the three doubles and women's singles events in the Chinese badminton team are all possible to achieve their goals. At present, there is no hope for only men's singles. In the year-end finals, only Lu Guangzu got the right to participate, and he still went to Bangkok . Otherwise, he would not be able to enter the top eight in his ranking, and he also failed to obtain the right to qualify in the group as expected. If the national badminton men's singles do not improve significantly in 2023, their Olympic prospects will become even slimmer.
text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Liu Ailin
edited by Zhang Yingchuan
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