Original title: The world’s major badminton tournament begins (title)
China’s “Feathered Army” is waiting for the powerful powers (theme)
Reporter Xi Yuan
Yesterday, the opening ceremony of the 2023 HSBC Badminton World Tour Finals was held in Hangzhou. During the event, the draw ceremony for the finals and the award ceremony for the best athlete of the year were also held simultaneously.
The Chinese team has players in the same group in the three events of women’s doubles, men’s doubles and women’s singles. In men’s singles, Shi Yuqi is in the same group as Olympic champion Axelsen of Denmark and No. 1 seed Isao Dai of Japan.
The year-end finals adopt a combination of group stage and knockout stage. 8 players/pairs of each event are assigned to 2 groups for a single round-robin competition. The top two in the group will have the opportunity to advance to the semi-finals, and then pass the semi-finals and finals. Produce the ultimate champion. At 10 a.m. on December 13, this annual key event in the world badminton will start at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium.
Yesterday, the opening ceremony of the 2023 HSBC Badminton World Tour Finals was held in Hangzhou. During the event, the draw ceremony for the finals and the award ceremony for the best athlete of the year were also held simultaneously.
The Chinese team has players in the same group in the three events of women’s doubles, men’s doubles and women’s singles. In men’s singles, Shi Yuqi is in the same group as Olympic champion Axelsen of Denmark and No. 1 seed Isao Dai of Japan.
The year-end finals adopt a combination of group stage and knockout stage. 8 players/pairs of each event are assigned to 2 groups for a single round-robin competition. The top two in the group will have the opportunity to advance to the semi-finals, and then pass the semi-finals and finals. Produce the ultimate champion. At 10 a.m. on December 13, this annual key event in the world badminton will start at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium.
Full participation, 7 people making their debut
Guoyu looks forward to achieving great results again in Hangzhou
Among the 40 participating seats in the five individual events of this year-end finals, the Chinese badminton team became the only team to obtain 10 full participating seats, including Tokyo Olympics women’s singles champion Chen Yufei, Tokyo Olympics mixed doubles champion Huang Dongping, 4th World Championships women’s Double champions Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, three-time World Championship mixed doubles champions Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, 2018 year-end finals champion Shi Yuqi and other famous badminton players will all appear at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium. Seven of them will be in the year-end finals for the first time. appearance on the field.
The men’s doubles pair Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang performed very well in the 2023 season. Their record of winning four BWF World Tour events ensured that they successfully qualified for the year-end finals as the top scorer. It is worth noting that the “Liang Wang Combination” has amazing fighting power at home. At the previous China Open in Changzhou and the China Masters in Shenzhen, Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang stood on the highest podium in men’s doubles.
The performance of the mixed doubles combination Huang Dongping/Feng Yanzhe is equally impressive. This season, the “Dongfeng combination” has won 7 BWF World Tour championships, surpassing the 5 championships of the “IELTS combination” Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong and becoming the 2023 The mixed doubles pair with the most wins in the BWF World Tour this season.
In terms of men’s singles, Li Shifeng, who won the Asian Games men’s singles championship in Hangzhou two months ago, also successfully won the All England Open championship in the 2023 season. As the last and most important event of the year, the Chinese badminton team playing at home is looking forward to delivering an answer that will satisfy the fans in Hangzhou.
Fighting at home for the second time
“Version 2.0” Chen Yufei fights against old rival An Xiying again
After the Hangzhou Asian Games, Chen Yufei, who got rid of injuries, won the Denmark, French Badminton Open and other championships, and her condition improved significantly. After the day’s training, Chen Yufei said: “In fact, I haven’t had a long time to train in the past two weeks because I had a cold and fever, which only recovered a few days ago. I need to adjust my condition.”
In the women’s singles final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Chen Yufei was defeated by South Korean player An Xiying, currently ranked number one in the world. After the game, she published a long post on social media, revealing that she fought with serious injuries and said she wanted to be “Chen Yufei 2.0”. Now, Chen Yufei said that she is more relaxed.
Winning the championship in the Guangzhou year-end finals in 2019 allowed Chen Yufei to officially unlock the honor of the annual championship and start a period of glorious years of her own; reaching the top of the Tokyo Olympics has restored the past glory of the national badminton women’s singles. At the year-end finals in Bangkok a year ago, Chen Yufei unfortunately stopped in the semi-finals and failed to reach the top again. Now, the 2023 year-end finals have begun in Hangzhou. Chen Yufei, who played in her hometown, is more mature and has become one of the favorites to win the women’s singles with her recent outstanding performance.
This season Chen Yufei has reached the top of 4 BWF World Tour events, including 1 Super 1000 event and 3 Super 750 events. Although the famous Japanese player Akane Yamaguchi withdrew from the finals due to injury, Chen Yufei still had to face powerful players including An Xiying, Tai Ziying, etc. Among them, An Xiying has won a total of 8 tournaments this season. In addition, the two had a wonderful showdown at the Hangzhou Asian Games. The confrontation between the two is undoubtedly the most exciting in this finals. One of the most anticipated attractions.
2023-12-12 04:09:41
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