Only Lin Dan (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013), considered the best player in badminton history, has managed to add more than three individual world titles in his career. In his case there are five, two more than he treasures a Carolina Marín who, five years ago, became the most successful player in history at the female level in these fights: she added her third title in 2018, a barrier that no woman on an individual level had reached until then.
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Marín has this Sunday (third shift from 12:00, around 14:00-14:30) his umpteenth date with the legend. With his name at the top of the World Cup history, the final of the Copenhagen World Championship that confronts the Korean Se Young An opens the doors to fight for a fourth title whose value would go far beyond the meteoric numbers that make up his record. It will be a duel between a Marín, currently sixth in the world, who has reigned in history since that third title she achieved five years ago, and an An who commands the ranking from her first place.
Carolina returns to a World Cup final five years after closing her list of titles (2014, 2015 and 2018), but above all after recover from two very serious knee injuries that stopped its meteoric rhythm in its tracks. At the beginning of 2019, the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee arrived; a few weeks before the 2021 Tokyo Games, the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and the two menisci of the left knee.
For this reason, being back this Sunday in a World Cup final is another milestone that places Marín’s career in another dimension. A victory would serve to make this increase even more and put another icing on pomp to a sports career with already 36 international titlesa hunger without limits and an immaculate card in big event finals: one of one won in Olympic Games, three of three in World Championships, six of six in European Championships and one of one in European Games.
At least until now, since Carolina wants more against one of the powerful rivals on the circuit. Se Young An is, at twenty-one, one of the young values which, already established in that first world position, aspires to dominate world badminton in the short and medium term. Universal bronze last year in Tokyo, she disputed her first World Cup final against a Carolina from whom she has taken the point in recent duels: accumulates four consecutive victories against the Spanishtwo of them this year, in a face-to-face that they dominate 5-4.
An comes launched to this final with no less than seven titles this year, after those achieved in the All England Super 1000, in the Super 750 of India, Singapore and Japan and the Super 500 of Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea. The man from Indonesia achieved it precisely against Marín, coming back from a match in which he had lost the first set, a sign of his mental strength.
But Marín has shown a clear rise in level in this World Cup, once again feeling dominant with her aggressive game and leaving a great business card against the two major rivals that he has had along the way: he beat Tai Tzu Ying 21-16 in the quarterfinals and Akane Yamaguchi 23-21 and 21-13 in the semifinals. She has done it with an exhibition of play and deployment on the track, being able to also command long points, to physically toughen the matches and to bring them to a successful conclusion.
In short, Marín has reached a new level, proving to be in full condition to be able to fight for the title against An. The season has been focused on reaching ‘D-day’ at its best level, without lavishing too much on competition, aware of the date of your appointment with history. This Sunday, five years later, after many difficult months, after getting up in the face of continuous blows, Carolina returns to a fight for a World Cup ready to continue fighting to enlarge his legend on the badminton planet.
2023-08-27 05:02:46
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