He Bingjiao
On the afternoon of April 17, the five individual finals of the 2022 Korea Badminton Masters all decided the title of champion and runner-up. The Chinese badminton team won two championships in the women's singles and mixed doubles in this tournament, and also won the runner-up in both events, and the new "twin-tower combination" of Liu Yuchen / Ou Xuanyi won the runner-up in the men's doubles, and the results were still not satisfactory. At the end of April, Guoyu will concentrate its firepower and go all out to participate in the Asian Championships held in the Philippines, and strive to use the run-in of the Asian Championship before the Tangyou Cup to upgrade the overall strength to prepare for the defense of the Yu Cup and the recovery of the Tang Cup.
Chen Yufei
This Time the South Korean Badminton Masters (Super 300) is indeed only enough to be a training standard, its level is even lower than last week's Korea Open (Super 500), but the national feathers still choose to send a large number of national team players to participate, one is the Asian Championships and the Tangyou Cup is approaching the need to train troops, and the other is also to make up for the lack of too many points in the past two years. In all five individual competitions, He Bingjiao won the championship after defeating olympic champion Chen Yufei 2-1, which was her second championship this season, and it was also the second time to defeat Chen Yufei in the key final, the two Chinese women's singles no. 1 and no. 2 players seem to have a big side, rather than the previous impression of "Chen Qiang and He Weak", this change is gratifying, of course, while seeing He Bingjiao's progress, I also hope that Chen Yufei will go to a higher level.
Guo Yu's second title in the Korea Masters came from the mixed doubles, and the winner is still the current team number one, Olympic champion Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping, the two are relatively stable, stronger and more cooperative. More gratifying is the pair of players Ou Xuanyi / Huang Yaqiong, who were split off by the "IELTS combination", they are a new mixed doubles combination launched by Guo Yu this year, but the two have performed well after the partnership, as long as they participate, the worst can also advance to the quarterfinals. The german two played for the first time to break into the final and won the runner-up, the Korean Open two advanced to the quarterfinals, the two masters of this station continued a good competitive state, all the way to the final four, facing Malaysia's second mixed doubles, the world's 13th place Wu Shunfa / Lai Jiemin, Ou Xuanyi / Huang Yaqiong completely occupied the upper hand, fell two straight sets to complete the sweep, initially showed the strength of becoming the world's top mixed doubles combination. The other pair, Zheng Siwei/Zhang Shuxian, is slightly less powerful, but only reached the quarterfinals of this Masters.
Liu Yuchen / Ou Xuanyi (first from right)
It is worth mentioning that the new "twin towers" of men's doubles Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi, although the time of the partnership is not long, but in this game they eliminated many strong players all the way to the final and won the runner-up, which is also their second runner-up after the German Open, the record is better than the other pairs of old partners in the team, so that fans see the hope of the men's doubles project. The women's doubles this time due to the no. 1 combination "Fan Chen" Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan absent, the performance is not satisfactory, Du Yue / Li Wenmei folded the semifinals. The worst record in all the individual events is still the men's singles, and Weng Hongyang, who won the Korean Open championship last week, withdrew from the second round, but fans were puzzled and worried about the stability of Weng Hongyang's state, while the other players were all eliminated before the quarter-finals, and there was still no big improvement.
Weng Hongyang
This Time the Korean Masters world masters are absent a lot, the national feathers in almost every level to meet the host Korean players, the gold content of the event is really average, but anyway, get points, win the victory, enhance confidence, exercise the team, these purposes can be achieved. On the 26th of this month, the 2022 Asian Badminton Championships will start shooting in the Philippines. Starting this year, the event will be upgraded from Super 500 to Super 1000, which will be comparable to events such as the All England Open, Indonesia Open and China Open.
In addition, this Asian Championship is also the last stop before the Tang You Cup, so the Asian powers have sent a luxurious lineup. A total of 26 people will participate in the men's singles event, including Sun Feixiang, Li Shifeng, Weng Hongyang and Lei Lanxi in the men's singles event, He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi, Han Yue and Zhang Yiman in the women's singles event, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi, He Jiting/Zhou Haodong, Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang in the men's doubles event, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Du Yue/Li Wenmei, Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu in the women's doubles event, and Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, Feng Yanzhe/Lin Fangling, who have come back and reorganized in the mixed doubles project. At that time, it will be a big stage for Kuniwa to test its strength, and it will also be rehearsed for the Tangyou Cup in May and the Asian Games in September.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin