On December 14, Beijing time, the men's singles quarterfinals of the Badminton World Championships, Japan's famous Nishimoto Kenta against Indian player Laksh Yasen. In the end, Nishimoto's boxing was defeated in the decider, 1-2 was out, the World Championships was again out of the cold, and the men's singles seed player was out, following Momota Kendou's retirement, the Japanese team was hit consecutively!
In the first set, the situation was very sticky, and the two fought to a 16-16 draw. Laksh Yasen pushed the backfield out of bounds and Nishimoto took a 17-16 lead. Laksh Yasen scored a slash and Nishimoto challenged himself to score another point, 18-16, to a two-point advantage. Laksh Yasen chased two consecutive points to draw 18-18. Nishimoto punched in front of the net, but the chance ball was pounced on the net! Laksh Yasen scored directly from the slash, and at 20-18, Laksh Yasen scored four consecutive points to take the first set point. Nishimoto saved two consecutive sets to tie 20-20. Laksh Yasen played tenaciously, defensively counter-attacking for two consecutive points, 22-20, Laksh Yasen shook his fist to celebrate, thrilling to win the first set.
In the second set, Nishimoto scored consecutively in the final stage of the set to win back a set 21-15.
In the decider, Nishimoto's boxing started unfavorably, losing 2 points in a row. Subsequently, Lakshyasen established a 6-3 advantage. Laksh Yasen withstood Nishimoto's counterattack and was always in a weak lead, and finally won the decider 21-18, the general bureau scored 2-1 upset promotion, and the men's singles No. 15 seed Nishimoto was unexpectedly out of the game early.
At this badminton World Championships, the Indonesian team withdrew, and the three Tokyo Olympic champions of the national feather, Chen Yufei, Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping, did not participate, and Shi Yuqi also did not register. In terms of the Japanese team, Okuhara hopes not to participate in the women's singles competition, the first round of men's singles, Momota Kento withdrew, this round, Nishimoto Kenta was out of the cold, and only 2 Japanese badminton players remained in the men's singles signing table. In addition, The Tokyo Olympic men's singles champion Arcelong has also been cold out, the World Championships men's singles field continues to be unpopular, and the situation of the championship is chaotic!
For Kuniwa, this may be a positive. After all, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for Guoyu Lu Guangzu, Li Shifeng and Zhao Junpeng to compete for the championship, and now, after the explosion of cold doors, Guoyu's hope of competing for the men's singles championship has increased a lot, of course, we are still not the popularity of men's singles.