On the evening of October 17th, Beijing time, with the end of the Thomas Cup badminton team competition, this year's badminton team competition has all ended, and the overall performance and record of Guoyu have gained and lost.
After winning the Sudirman Cup and Uber Cup consecutively, in the Thomas Cup final to test the overall strength of the men’s event, they lost 0-3 to the Indonesian team and lost their title, revealing that the Chinese badminton singles and doubles were not in the men’s badminton. It can be called the weakness of the top players.
If the Chinese team wants to regain the Tang Cup, or win the two men's championships in the recent badminton competition-the World Championships at the end of the year, it seems to be quite difficult at present.
National Yu male players' sense of urgency upgrades
In the Sudirman Cup that ended in early October, despite the success of the national badminton defending, the weakness of the men's event that was not as dominant as the women's event at that time has emerged. Relying on the advantages of the women's event, the Chinese team finally retained the Sudirman Cup.
In the Thomas Cup, the other half of the national feathers was lost, and the problem of the lack of absolute strength in the men's event was quickly magnified, which eventually led to the defeat of the defending title.
The Chinese team is very passive when facing a team like Indonesia with a strong comprehensive ability, balanced single and doubles strength and no obvious weaknesses.
But I didn't expect that because the first singles Shi Yuqi had some accidents and could not participate in the competition, the Chinese team could not even win a game.
The sense of urgency of the Guoyu male players suddenly escalated.
When it comes to the leader of the Chinese men’s team, in the post-Lin Dan era, Chinese male feathers did not actually emerge as a substitute for "Super Dan". Even the Rio Olympic champion Chen Long has passed the peak of his career. After losing to the Danish master Anseron at the Tokyo Olympics, the veteran also realized that he would gradually fade out, and after losing to Shi Yuqi in the men’s singles semifinals at the National Games, his speech even had some "Tuogu" meaning. , And placed the future of the Guoyu Men's Project on Shi Yuqi.
Who can take on the important task of "leading figure"
In fact, Shi Yuqi's performance in the Su Cup and Tang Cup was not satisfactory.
Regardless of the cause of the injury or lack of mental energy, the expectations of him and the fans are always worse.
If the performances in the Sudirman Cup semi-finals and finals are fair, then the first round of the Sudirman Cup group stage and knockout rounds were consecutively lost to Thailand’s men’s singles player Kun Lavut and Denmark’s Anseron. It exposed Shi Yuqi's technical and psychological deficiencies.
In the Thomas Cup, Shi Yuqi played normally before the semi-finals, but in the key game with the Japanese team for the final right, he caused the biggest controversy for the Chinese team in this Soup Cup.
After losing in the first game, Kento Momota completely lost his resistance in the second game and retired when his opponent had 15 match points (5-20). The timing of this abandonment was unpredictable.
Although Shi Yuqi spent a lot of time explaining his approach after the game, most fans still failed to see his logic.
And in the finals when he was most needed, he failed to play, which left a bad impression on the fans-Shi Yuqi is difficult to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the leader of the Chinese men's team.
In major competitions such as the Tokyo Olympics, Shi Yuqi lost consecutively to the thriving Anseron. It seems that the two are not at the same level.
Achievement is a hard indicator to measure whether a player can lead a team. Unfortunately, the 25-year-old "Little Rock" has not yet been able to win the World Championships. If he wants to lead the Chinese male feather team as the world's strongest team, Not yet convincing.
But now, Shi Yuqi is the number one player of the Chinese men's team. This is the cruel reality.
Lu Guangzu, Li Shifeng, and others behind him are either average technical or young and inexperienced. Currently, they can't jump ahead of Shi Yuqi.
Unstable doubles combination
Looking at the men's doubles, this has always been a relatively weak link in the national feathers. The only player in the Tokyo Olympics that failed to compete in the men's doubles.
In recent years, the “two towers combination” Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen, which the national team has been focusing on training, has a good effect, but has never reached the peak state, and sometimes loses inexplicably.
He Jiting/Zhou Haodong, who served as the first double of the soup cup this time, also played unstable. Compared with some combinations of Southeast Asian Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia, which have a higher level of men's doubles, they have no advantage at all.
Fans can accept that the Chinese men's doubles at the World Championships two months later failed to win. After all, the combination time is too short, and it is not realistic to make them the strongest in the world. But the Paris Olympics 3 years later, if it still emerges Not having a decent and stable combination will inevitably affect Guoyu's overall performance.
What's more, there are soup cups and sou cups to be beaten before that, and walking on lame legs will always be uncomfortable.
It is a unique event in the history of international badminton in one month. The Chinese team has also experienced extremely difficult tests this month, and has won two championships and one Asian championship. The overall result is satisfactory. of.
But in times of danger, Guo Yu wants to continue to maintain its overall advantage, he must face the reality to make up for his shortcomings, and dominate the badminton world with a convincing record.
Text/Reporter Liu Ailin Coordinator/Du Rui