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The Badminton Asia Championships 2024, the 41st Badminton Asia Championships, is an international badminton tournament in Asia hosted by the Asian Badminton Federation. The event will be held in Ningbo, China, from April 9 to April 14, 2024, in the Super 1000 class.
The 2024 Badminton Asia Championships, which starts today, will see badminton players from Asia gather in Ningbo, China, to compete for the men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles titles.
The main forces of Shi Yuqi, Li Shifeng, Rivet, He Bingjiao, Liang Weihang/Wang Chang, Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping and other main forces joined hands to fight.
This year's Asian Championships is not just a title race, most importantly, it is the final race to qualify for the Paris Olympics, and the federations are fighting for Olympic qualification.
According to the qualification plan for badminton at the Paris Olympic Games, each individual event will send a maximum of two players from each association to participate in the competition. But the premise is that in men's and women's singles, the association needs to have at least two players and be ranked in the top 16 in the world. Doubles requires at least two players to be ranked in the top 8 in the world.
As of the 14th week, the BWF World Rankings have been announced.
National feather men's singles Shi Yuqi ranked 2nd, Li Shifeng ranked 7th, Lu Guangzu ranked 16th, Shi Yuqi and Li Shifeng have helped.
Women's singles Chen Yufei ranked 2nd, He Bingjiao ranked 6th, Han Yue ranked 7th, Wang Zhiyi ranked 9th, and Zhang Yiman ranked 15th.
Women's Doubles Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan ranked first, Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning ranked fourth, Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu ranked seventh, heavy rainfall.
Mixed doubles Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong ranked first, Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping ranked third, Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin ranked fifth, and Guo Yu.
Men's and women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles, the national feather has already qualified for the Paris Olympics in advance, and only the men's doubles can still be in suspense.
At present, Leung Wei Keng/Wang Chang is ranked third, Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen is ranked 8th, He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu are ranked 11th, and Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen is ranked eighth, but there is only 719 points behind the Indonesian pair Fikri/Maulana, and the tenth ranked Chinese Taiwanese pair Li Yang/Wang Qilin is only 1650 points, and whoever enters the top eight has hope.
According to the points method announced by the BWF, the Asian Championships points are equivalent to Super 1000 event points, the champion can get 12,000 points, the runner-up can get 10,200 points, the semi-finals can get 8,400 points, the top 8 can get 6,600 points, and the top 16 can get 4,800 points. Even if you finish in the top 32 in one round, you can still get 3,000 points.
Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen, the world ranking after the Asian Championships will remain in the top eight. The results of the Asian Championships must be better than that of Indonesia's Fikri/Maulana and Taiwan's Li Yang/Wang Qilin, especially Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen, and the battle for 8 with Fikri/Maulana will be extremely fierce and cruel.
AFC Fikri/Maulana are the No. 7 seeds in the quarter-finals, while Fikri/Maulana are the No.8 seeds and are in the quarter-finals with Taiwan's Li Yang/Wang Chi-lin.
Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen's first-round opponent is the Indian combination Arjun/Kapila, from the world ranking, the Indian combination is ranked 42nd in the world, and it is not difficult to play normally, Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen advanced to the top 16 and it is not difficult to get 4800 world points.
Entering the second round, Ou Xuanyi/Liu Yuchen faced the winner between the Indonesian combination Fernando/Martin and the South Korean pair Kim Rongyi/Wang Can, and it is possible to encounter Fernando/Martin, this is a hard battle, the Indonesian combination also knows the importance of winning and losing, the two teams will be a fierce battle, Fernando/Martin is one of the members of the Thomas Cup champions, the highest world ranking has been 9th, and the strength is good.
Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi need to put down their burdens and travel lightly, in the 1/4 finals, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi, is expected to face the Malaysian World Championships champion, No. 4 seeds Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi is under a lot of pressure.
Fikri/Maulana's first round opponent is the Thai combination Supak / Gitinupong, from the world rankings, the Indonesian combination is expected to advance to the round of 16, continue to maintain the difference with the national feather Liu Yuchen / Ou Xuanyi, 1/8 finals, Fikri / Maulana or will face the Chinese Taiwan combination Li Yang / Wang Qilin, although Li Yang / Wang Qilin is now ranked in the world is not as good as Fikri/Maulana, but there is an Olympic champion, the two sides are unpredictable.
In the quarterfinals, Fikri/Maulana may encounter the No. 2 seeds, South Korea's Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae, or the national feather He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu, and it will be difficult to advance.
Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi and Fikri/Maulana in the battle for 8, although the 1/4 finals were not directly confrontational, but also secretly competed, and at the same time, it was also affected by other combinations, who can help the association to get the full qualification for the Paris Olympics, it is exciting.
Can Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi complete their special mission and help Guoyu qualify for the men's doubles?