Original title: Olympic badminton men’s singles Chenlong 0-2 Ansailong missed the chance to defend the Chinese team to add another silver medal
On August 2, Beijing time, the 2021 Tokyo Olympics badminton competition continued to end at the Musashino Forest Comprehensive Sports Plaza in Tokyo. In the last badminton final of China, Rio Olympic champion Chen Long and Denmark’s Ansailong staged the 20th “Double Dragons Meeting”. Chen Long lost to Ansailong 0-2 (15-21; 12-21) and missed the chance to defend the Olympic Men’s Singles title. In the previous men’s singles bronze medal battle, Indonesia’s Ginting defeated Guatemala’s Corden 21-11 and 21-13, and the Indonesian team won the Olympic men’s singles medal again for the first time in 17 years. So far Guoyu has won mixed doubles and women’s singles gold in this Tokyo Olympics.
Rio Olympic champion Chen Long ranked No. 6 in the world in men’s singles. The 32-year-old this year, he won two games in the group stage of the Olympic Games. He defeated Estonia’s Muster and Spain’s Abian with two 2-0 wins. Pablo. In the men’s singles round of 16, he fought him 2-1 against Malaysian newcomer Li Zijia, and in the men’s singles quarter-finals he fought against him in the 2-1 knockout round and the second seed Zhou Tiancheng of Chinese Taipei. In yesterday’s semi-finals, Chen Long defeated Indonesia’s Ginting 2-0.
The 27-year-old Ansailong ranked second in the world in men’s singles. This Olympic group stage also won two games. In the round of 16, he beat Wang Ziwei of Chinese Taipei 2-0. In the quarterfinals, he defeated Shi Yuqi of the Chinese team 2-0. In the final, he defeated the dark horse Kevin Corden of Guatemala 2-0.
Olympic experts talk: Chen Long missed the singles defending badminton event ended
Chen Long and Ansai Long had a record of 19 battles before, and Chen Long led with 14 wins and 5 losses. The two have faced Axelon 3 wins and 2 losses in the last five times. In January last year, Chen Long lost to Axelon 20-22 in the deciding game of the Malaysian Masters.
After the start of the first game, Chen Long took a 3-1 lead, and Ansailong quickly chased the score to 6-6. Chen Long took a 9-7 lead, but Ansailong scored 4 points in a row and entered the technical timeout of the game with an 11-9 lead. After entering the middle game, Ansailong gradually controlled the initiative of the game. He continued to maintain the advantage with 15-11. Chen Long’s overall performance was OK, but he was slightly disadvantaged in the confrontation with Ansailong. Ansailong won the first game 20-14, Chen Long chased 1 point and Ansailong won the first game 21-15.
Chen Long got a 3-1 lead in the second game and soon maintained his advantage to 6-2. Ansailong took a 9-7 lead and entered the technical timeout of the game with an 11-7 lead. In the mid-game stage, Ansailong continued to expand his advantage with 14-7. He extended the lead to 8 points with 19-11. Ansailong won the second game 21-12 and defeated Chen Long 2-0 to win the men’s singles championship at the Tokyo Olympics. (Red)
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