From its debut at the Macau Open in 2017 to its long-term dominance of the BWF Mixed Doubles rankings, the "IELTS" duo of Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong has already had absolute strength in this project. In an interview with Red Star News at the end of last year, former Olympic champion Gao Kun said, "For the time being, the impact of players from other countries and regions on mixed doubles is not as great as other projects, and what we need to do is to maintain our own state." ”
Today, although the "IELTS" group regrettably lost the Tokyo Olympic badminton mixed doubles final, it was another Chinese player, Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, who defeated them. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation once again won gold and silver and raised two five-star red flags!
Wang Yilu (right) and Huang Dongping celebrate winning the championship According to IC photo
Yesterday, with the two Chinese players winning both in the badminton mixed doubles semi-final, the Chinese delegation also locked the gold medal in advance, and the Chinese badminton team has secured the first gold medal produced by Tokyo in the badminton competition. In today's final, Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping defeated the world number one "IELTS" combination 2-1 to win the heaviest Olympic title.
"The strength of the 'IELTS' combination makes players from other countries and regions can only compete for the second place," the comments of netizens confirmed the advantages of the Chinese badminton team in the mixed doubles event. So how strong is the "IELTS" combination defeated by the gold medal combination Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping?
The first group of 110,000 points in history led by more than 20,000 points
With the mixed doubles title at the All England Open in 2019, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong continue to be ranked first in the world rankings announced on 12 March 2019, with their points reaching 111,400 points, becoming the first group of world ranking players to exceed 110,000 points.
You know, in that edition of the world rankings, the second-place Chinese duo Wang Yilu /Huang Dongping "only" had 89,650 points, more than 20,000 points behind the "IELTS" combination.
Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong Picture according to IC photo
In fact, as early as the second half of 2018, the two players broke through 100,000 points in the world ranking points, becoming the seventh (pair) member in history to achieve this achievement. Previously, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong worked with Chen Qingchen and Lu Kai to mix doubles, respectively, when the two pairs were also ranked in the top two in the world, but they were split and reorganized due to losing 1 point each in the key games of the Sudirman Cup.
The "IELTS" combination put its own points more than 100,000 points, which took less than a year. The milestone of the speed of light has also made them the strongest force in the world's badminton mixed doubles.
What is the concept of a 6-digit integral?
Being able to break through 6 figures in its world rankings and joining the "100,000-point club" in history is very limited, which is almost a ceiling level in each individual event.
The BWF ranking calculation rules stipulate that the world ranking score of each (pair) player is selected from the 10 races with the highest number of points in the international competitions participated in the past 52 weeks, and the points are accumulated to calculate the sum. The BWF has different levels of competitions every year, each level of different rankings have corresponding world ranking points, the highest points are the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the champion can get 13,000 points, the second level of the event is the World Tour Finals, Super 1000, the champion can get 12,000 points, down the level there are Super 750, Super 500, Super 300.
The Chinese women's doubles duo of Yu Yang/Wang Xiaoli was the first player to reach 100,000 points, and they ranked first in the world with 100555 points in the world rankings announced on August 18, 2011; subsequently, Li Xuerui, Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei, Chen Long, Li Zongwei and other badminton players have completed this challenge.
In the latest edition of the world rankings on July 27 this year, only Japan's Momota Kendou exceeded 100,000 points in the men's singles, but in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Momota Kendou was eliminated early; the women's singles player only from Chinese Taipei's Dai Ziying scored 106075 points, and the second-place Chinese Player Chen Yufei scored 96,465 points; the Indonesian two-paired pair exceeded 100,000 in the men's doubles points, occupying the top two in the world; and the women's doubles was the Japanese combination of Yuki Fukushima/Hirota Caihua a pair of more than 100,000 points On the mixed doubles side, in addition to the silver-winning "IELTS" combination, a Pair of Thai players ranked second in the world with a score of more than 100,000 points.
Red Star News reporter Li Bo Pei Han
Edited by Ou Peng
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