Original title: Asian Badminton Championships start this month (quote)
Guangzhou men’s doubles and women’s doubles won “tickets” (theme)
Yang Min, all-media reporter of Guangzhou Daily
The 2023 Asian Badminton Championships will be held in Dubai from the 25th to the 30th of this month. Liang Weikeng, a “post-00s” men’s doubles star from Guangzhou, and Li Yijing/Luo Xumin, a women’s doubles combination, qualified for the competition.
This year’s Badminton Asian Championships will have five individual competitions. Each association can obtain a maximum of 4 competition seats in each individual event. In the men’s singles event, Lu Guangzu, Shi Yuqi, and Li Shifeng of the Chinese team qualified; the Guoyu women’s singles got full seats, including Chen Yufei, He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi, and Han Yue. In the men’s doubles event, Guoyu has 4 pairs participating, including Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi, Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang, He Jiting/Zhou Haodong, Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang. For women’s doubles, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu, Li Yijing/Luo Xumin were qualified. A total of 4 national feather mixed doubles pairs qualified, including Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping, Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin, Cheng Xing/Chen Fanghui.
Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang are currently ranked seventh in the world in men’s doubles. They advanced to the semi-finals at the All England Championship in March. Li Yijing/Luo Xumin, ranked 52nd in the world, are participating in the Orleans Masters in France this week.
