Source: People's Daily Original article
People's Daily Beijing, May 11 (Reporter Ou Xingrong) The 2022 Uber Cup Badminton Team Tournament continued to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on the evening of the 10th. The national badminton women's team defeated the last opponent of the group stage , the Chinese Taipei team , 5:0, and advanced to the quarterfinals with the status of ranking first in the group with all three wins.
On May 10, Chinese team player Chen Yufei defeated Chinese Taipei team player Xu Wenqi 2:0 in the Uber Cup women's singles match. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Teng
The Chinese team is the defending champion of the Uber Cup, and has won the Uber Cup 15 times in history. In this year's Uber Cup, the Chinese team was in the same group as Australia, Spain and China's Taipei team. In the first two rounds of the group stage, both the Chinese team and the Chinese Taipei team won all their wins, and both locked in advance to advance to the quarterfinals.
In this duel for the first place in the group, the Chinese Taipei team did not send the women's singles , Dai Tzu-ying, the world's second-ranked , to appear, while the Chinese team sent the strongest lineup. In the first game, Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Chen Yufei showed strong strength. She defeated Xu Wenqi in two straight games with scores of 21:15 and 21:13, and the Chinese team led 1:0.
In the second game, the world's number one women's doubles group Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan did not give the opponent any chance, and easily defeated Li Jiaxin /Deng Chunxun with 21:12 and 21:11, to win another game for the Chinese team. He Bingjiao , which appeared in the third game, fought fiercely with his opponent Song Shuoyun. He Bingjiao first lost the first game 18:21, and then showed good tenacity and strength, and reversed 21:15 and 21:18, so the Chinese team locked in the victory 3:0 in advance.
last two games, Huang Dongping / Li Wenmei and Wang Zhiyi both defeated their opponents 2:0. The Chinese team finally defeated the Chinese Taipei team 5:0 and advanced to the top of Group B with all three wins. We look forward to the national badminton girls performing better in the knockout stage.