Athletes have a short competitive career and have lived a two-point and one-line training team life for a long time, how to release hormones that have nowhere to be placed?
In the case of relative day and night, early and late, solving personal problems within the team and falling in love with the national team teammates is naturally a path.
The white badminton has witnessed the birth of the new king and queen of the past generations, and has also witnessed a pair of badminton heroes divided and merged. In terms of the happy knots with players in the sports field, badminton is a sports field with a considerable high frequency, and the number of badminton couples is quite large.
In this article, the author will comprehensively inventory the ten most representative couples for your reference by synthesizing three major factors such as nationality, achievements, and influence. Of course, due to the limitation of space, if there is a lost pearl or a debatable choice, you are naturally welcome to leave a message in the comment area to add.
10. Sun Wanhu & Sung Chi Hyun
Looking at the pattern of feathers, South Korea has been a relatively competitive country for many years, and there have been many good players in the past. On the couple of Korean feathers, it is the pair of Sun Wanhu & Sung Ji Hyun that is the most representative. The two were almost identical in their heyday, and were a brother and sister of Korean badminton at the same time.
Sun Wanhu is a South Korean athlete who briefly climbed to the top of the men's world rankings, and his career best result was the third place in the 2017 World Championships. Due to the serious injury of the Achilles tendon rupture in 2019, Sun Guanhu basically withdrew from the list of first-class players after that. Sun Wanhu's wife is South Korea's women's singles player Sung Ji Hyun, who has reached the second highest personal ranking in the world, and his career best is one level with her husband, and she is the third place in singles at the 2015 World Championships.
IX. Kashap Parupali & Xena Neville
India is a populous country, but a small country in sports. In addition to the two sports of cricket and hockey, India has developed the best in badminton, and after the new century, there have been some players who can rank high in the badminton world. When it comes to the husband and wife players in the badminton world, Kashap Parupali & Xena Neville, the Indian CP pair, is still worth talking about.
Kaship Parupali, who has reached sixth place in the men's singles world rankings, has achieved career bests in the Olympics and World Championships in the quarter-finals. Compared to Kaship Parupali, it is clear that Xena Neville's achievements in her field are more dazzling.
As a representative of beauty and playing, Xena Neville has been ranked first in the world rankings, and is the first athlete to win the women's singles gold medal in badminton at the Commonwealth Games twice. In London in 2012, Xena Neville won the bronze medal in singles.
VIII. Chris Edcock & Gabriel Edcock
Looking for the most representative husband and wife players in the badminton world, of course, you can't skip the mixed doubles field. After all, in the mixed doubles field, men and women are long-term sticky together to train, and they have to play together in the game.
The Edcock couple from England is a foreign mixed couple with both popularity and strength. The 2007 World Youth Championships began, when Chris and Gabriel, who had not yet fallen in love, began to partner. After becoming famous as a Commonwealth athlete in 2014, mr. and Mrs. Edcock became a pair of fans. However, in the world of strong hands, the results of the Edcock couple's competition are relatively lackluster.
7. Zhang Nan & Tian Qing
In the history of badminton, to find the most dramatic or arguable couple, the former mixed doubles men's famous Zhang Nan and the former women's doubles star Tian Qing are probably the best representatives. Because before marrying Tian Qing, Zhang Nan had a long relationship with his mixed double Zhao Yunlei, and Tian Qing was once Zhao Yunlei's female double partner, and the change in relationship also asked Zhu Jun to taste it.
6. Qiao Bin & Li Xuerui
In terms of competitive performance, Qiao Bin & Li Xuerui are a representative couple with strong women and weak men.
In her heyday, Li Xuerui was a representative of the power type and the pulling assault style in the women's arena, personally won the Olympic singles gold medalist, and occupied the world first place in women's singles for 119 weeks.
Qiao Bin's words, the honor in individual singles stays at the level of the open tournament, and is well known to everyone mainly as a member of the national team and competes in events such as the Thomas Cup with the team.
5. Yang Yang & Zheng Yu Carp
In the period from the mid-1980s to the 1990s, Yang Yang was generally regarded as the best male singles player, enjoying the reputation of "king of kings" and "head of the four kings". If badminton had not been just an Olympic performance at that time, Yang Yang would have been a Grand Slam player who met the definition of modern standards.
Within Guoyu, Yang Yang solved personal problems, and his wife was Zheng Yuli, a member of the women's national team in the mid-to-late 1980s, who played in two Uber Cups. After retiring and getting married, Yang Yang's two brothers Han Jian and Chen Changjie went to the Malaysian team to teach football and follow-up entrepreneurship, and Zheng Yuli has become Xian Nei to help handle big and small things behind Yang Yang's back.
4. Li Zongwei & Huang Miaozhu
Lee Chung Wai, three-time Olympic silver medalist and three-time World Championships singles runner-up, has occupied the world's first position in the men's singles for 349 weeks, the flag figure of Malaysian sports, the most representative uncrowned king in the history of badminton, and the strongest second person in the Lin Dan era.
Mention li zongwei, i think everyone is quite familiar with it, and even has some sense of intimacy and regret. As for Li Zongwei's wife, Huang Miaozhu, she was also a good player in women's singles when she was an athlete. Before retiring at the age of 28, Huang Miaozhu's best result was a third place in the Asian Championship and the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games.
3. Chen Long & Wang Shixian
Olympic singles gold, silver and bronze have been won over and over again, with two-time World Championship singles champions, as well as champions of various major and small events, Chen Long is enough to be called a generation of grandmaster-level singles players in the history of badminton. In the entire history of the badminton world, the men's singles players are on the status, except for Lin Dan who dares to say that he is stable and suppresses Chen Long, I am afraid that there is no one else. Unfortunately, it is precisely because the active era is after Lin Dan, so Chen Long is often treated with Lin Dan's achievements, and public opinion is actually a little unfair to him.
As for his wife Wang Shixian, she is a representative beauty player in Yutan and is jokingly called "Yutan Wang Zuxian" by the outside world. In terms of results, Wang Shixian briefly reached the first place in the world rankings, and her most representative honors were an Asian Games singles champion and a world championship singles bronze medal.
2. Wei Renfang & Wang Lianxiang
Indonesia is a country that regards badminton as the national ball, and the generations of badminton players are like clouds, and there are at least two long cycles in the history of badminton that can be called the era of domination. After badminton's successful entry into the Olympic Games as an official sport in 1992, it was Indonesia that produced the first Olympic men's and women's singles couples.
Back at the 1992 Olympics, Wei Renfang won the men's singles gold medal, the most iconic honor of his career. In fact, in the early 1990s, there were many good players in Indonesia, and Wei Renfang was not necessarily the indonesian male single brother at that time. In addition to this gold medal, Wei Renfang also had a world championship singles runner-up.
Wei Renfang's results are quite good, but this pair still belongs to the representative of men and women in terms of results, all because Wei Renfang's wife Wang Lianxiang is a grand slam level women's singles player, the first badminton women's singles player in the 90s, and the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup have won the championship seven times in total. In 1999, the husband and wife met together to hang up and retire.
1. Lin Dan & Xie Xingfang
Lin Dan, without too much introduction, double circle Grand Slam, the first person in the history of men's singles in the badminton, is enough.
As an athlete, Xie Xingfang's performance in his career is also quite outstanding, the silver medalist in singles at the Beijing Olympic Games, who lost in the roommate with Zhang Ning that year, and took two World Championships singles champions. In her career, Xie Xingfang's strongest opponent is the two-time Olympic singles gold medal winner. In the course of their careers, the two have played a total of 22 games, winning and losing exactly half.
Shortly after Lin Xie and the two first became famous, rumors of mutual affection and falling in love continued. In 2010, The two registered their marriage. Back in 2016, during Xie Xingfang's pregnancy, Lin Dan was photographed at the hotel to meet zhao Yaqi, a nine-line female artist, which caused a wave of public opinion for a while. However, Xie Xingfang still chose to firmly support Lin Dan, hoping that the latter could cherish the people in front of him.