Original title: Thailand Badminton Open starts today (title)
Some of the main players of the national feather team go out for training (theme)
China Sports News reporter Zhou Yuan
After the Thomas and Uber Cup, after a week of rest and adjustment, the 2024 World Badminton League competition resumed and the Southeast Asian season began. From May 14th to May 19th, Beijing time, the Badminton World Tour Super 500 event-Thailand Open will be held in Bangkok. Guoyu sent some team members to participate in the Thailand Open. Especially in the three doubles, more young combinations were sent for training.
Some members of the national badminton team participated in this competition, and more main players continue to train in Chengdu, focusing their main energy on important events such as the Singapore Open (Super 750 event) at the end of the month and the Indonesian Open (Super 1000 event) in early June. tournament.
Guoyu sent 3 men’s singles athletes to participate in this competition. Only Zhao Junpeng is in the top half, and he may face top-seeded Danish player Antonsen in the second round. In the second half, Lu Guangzu will face Thai player Wang Gaolun in the first round. Lei Lanxi will face No. 6 seed and Malaysia’s “No. 1 Brother” Lee Zii Jia in the first round. There are also strong opponents in the lower half such as No. 2 seed Japanese star Kodai Naraoka and Chinese Taipei player Zhou Tiancheng.
Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao, who played consecutively in the Uber Cup knockout rounds, are absent from this game, as are many other world badminton women’s singles masters. Chinese players Han Yue and Wang Zhiyi became the top and second seeds of the tournament, ranked in the upper and lower halves respectively. Han Yue faced Indian player Malvika in the first round. Also in the first half were two national players, Zhang Yiman and Gao Fangjie. Zhang Yiman’s opponent in the first round was South Korean player Shen Youzhen, and Gao Fangjie may face the famous Thai player Rao in the second round. Chanuo. Wang Zhiyi was alone in the second half and faced Chinese Taipei player Huang Youxun in the first match. In the same half, there was Indonesian star Mariska.
In men’s doubles, Guoyu sent two young pairs to compete, divided into the upper and lower halves. Xie Haonan/Zeng Weihan are in the first half and will face the Thai combination Thanado/Thornton in the first round. If they win, they will face the top seeds, Indian combination Rankireddy/Shetty in the second round, which will be more difficult to break through. Chen Boyang/Liu Yi in the lower half will face a qualifying pair in the first round. The main seeded players in the second half are concentrated in the Indonesian team, including No. 2 seeds Fikri/Maulana, No. 4 seeds Martin/Carnando, and No. 5 seeds Ahsan/Hendra.
The three main Chinese badminton women’s doubles pairs participating in the Uber Cup all chose to take a truce. Guoyu only sent two women’s doubles pairs of Li Yijing/Luo Xumin and Keng Shuliang/Zhang Chi to participate. Li Yijing/Luo Xumin received a bye in the first round. Keng Shuliang/Zhang Chi may encounter the top seeds of the tournament, Thailand’s Zongkong Pan/La in the second round. Wenda is no small challenge for them.
Although the National Badminton Mixed Doubles combination did not participate in the Thomas and Uber Cup, in order to better prepare for the next high-level competition, the three top five pairs of the National Badminton World Rankings Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping, Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin did not participate. Competition on this site. The Mixed Doubles competition was mainly focused on training young players this time, but the three pairs sent were all clustered in the lower half. No. 5 seeds Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui will face the qualifying pair in the first round, and may have a “civil war” with teammates Cheng Xing/Li Qian in the second round. Another new pair, Zhou Zhihong/Yang Jiayi, will face Chinese Taipei pair Wu Xuanyi/Yang Chuyun in the first round.
2024-05-14 01:34:22
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