On March 12, Beijing time, the 2022 German Open Badminton Tournament continued. While the Chinese team is soaring, the main competitor of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the Japanese team, has suffered a "group annihilation", and none of the five individual events can break into the final four, and the dismal results have made head coach Park Ju-bong questionable.
As the "outpost" of the 100-year All England Championships, the Japanese badminton team sent all the main players except the injured Okuhara Hope, Hirota Saika/Yuki Fukushima, Matsumoto Mayu/Nagahara and Kona to compete in Germany. However, including the new world championship champions Akane Yamaguchi, Tsururo Hoki/Yugo Kobayashi, the overall state of the Japanese team is quite sluggish, and after the quarter-finals, it suffered a "team annihilation", and the presence of Japanese players can no longer be seen in the existing signing table, which is very rare in the past few years on the BWF Tour. It is worth mentioning that after suffering a car accident and undergoing eye surgery treatment, the state of two-time World Champion and former men's singles world number one Momota Kendou continued to decline, and the German tournament was eliminated by his teammates in the first round, and the continuous loss of more than a year also made the number one star of the Japanese badminton team fall off the altar.
In addition, because Hirota Saihana/Yuki Fukushima, Matsumoto Mayu/Nagahara and Kona are constantly plagued by injuries, the strongest women's doubles of the Japanese team in the past two Olympic cycles has also become dominant, not only the traditional strong teams China, South Korea, but also the European women's doubles can beat them. After the failure of the Gold Medal at the Tokyo Olympics at home, the Korean head coach of the Japanese badminton team Park Ju-bong suffered a crisis of trust, until he won the women's singles and men's doubles championships with the opportunity to miss some masters of the Badminton World Championships at the end of the year. However, the full main force in germany was all blocked out of the top 8, and if the all-England record is still bad, what awaits him will be a voice of doubt.