The Badminton World Youth Championships ushered in the final day of the individual event, and the Chinese team will meet in the men's and women's singles finals and the mixed doubles and men's doubles for the championship

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Photo report by all-media reporter Xu Nanping: On October 13, the 2024 YONEX World Youth Badminton Championships will usher in the final day of the competition. In the semifinals that ended on the evening of the 12th, the Chinese team locked the men's singles and women's singles championships in advance, and Lin Xiangyi, who played concurrently, and his partners Hu Keyuan and Liu Yuanyuan fought for the men's doubles and mixed doubles finals.

This afternoon, the women's singles final will be played between two Chinese players, Xu Wenjing and Yin Yiqing, and the duel between the two is also a sequel to this year's Asian Youth Championships final. Three months ago, Xu Wenjing defeated Yin Yiqing in straight games to be crowned Asian junior champion, and now whichever of the two wins will break the Chinese team's eight-year drought of women's singles titles at the World Youth Championships, the last time a Chinese women's singles player won the World Junior Championships, it was Chen Yufei who competed in the youth tournament in 2016.

The men's singles final also featured a civil war for the Chinese team, with No. 1 seed Hu Zhean taking on No. 4 seed Wang Zijun. The two sides have met three times before, and Hu Zhean has won all of them. The two players have been in good form since the start of the individual event, with Hu Zhean only dropping one game against teammate Li Zhihang, and Wang Zijun firing on fire, winning all five matches so far without conceding a game. This match is also the farewell match of the World Youth Championships between the two players born in 2006, and like the women's singles, the Chinese team also broke the eight-year drought of the men's singles title at the World Youth Championships.

The Mixed Doubles final will be played between Lin Hsiang-yi/Liu Yuanyuan and Chinese Taipei's Lai Pai-yew/Sun Liangqing, who reached the quarter-finals at this year's Asian Youth Championships after losing to China's Wang Ziheng/Cao Zihan. It is worth mentioning that it was Lin Xiangyi/Liu Yuanyuan who won the Asian Youth Championships.

Lin Xiangyi also featured in the Men's Doubles final, where they will face first seeds Jiang Kaixing/Dai Weiqin, who will face China's Chen Yongrui/Chen Zhehan in the semi-finals. The two pairs have met three times this year, with the Malaysians holding a 2-1 advantage, although in the most recent meeting between the two sides, Lim Siang Yi / Hu Ke Yuan beat the Malaysian pair in the Asian Championship final to reach the top.

Editor on duty: Zhang Zhuying

Duty review: Zhou Yanhua

Duty Editorial Board: Fu Aihua