In the international badminton tournament held in Denmark, the men's team match Thomas Cup, the first leg of the first league was held, and Japan beat Canada to start the white star.
The international team competitions for men and women in badminton, the Thomas Cup for Men and the Uber Cup for Women, are held once every two years at the same venue at the same time, with three singles games and two doubles games. , The team that wins 3 first wins.
On the 10th, the Japanese national team, the runner-up of the previous tournament, played against Canada in the first leg of the first league.
Japan, which preserved Kento Momota, who ranked first in the world ranking, had a difficult start in the first game of the singles, where Tokyo Olympics representative Kanta Tsuneyama lost with a game count of 1-2.
However, after that, Yuta Watanabe, who won the bronze medal in the mixed doubles of the Tokyo Olympics, and Akira Koga, who usually forms another pair, won the doubles, and all the remaining four games won straight. , 4 wins and 1 loss and started the first match with a white star.
In the men's first league, 16 teams will fight in 4 teams each, but since England, which is the same group as Japan, has declined, 3 teams including Malaysia will fight, and the top 2 teams will advance to the quarterfinals.