Guangzhou Daily All Media Reporter Yang Min
In the 2022 Badminton World Championships yesterday, the top 4 seats in five individual events were decided at the Tokyo Stadium in Japan.
The Chinese team has one seat each in the men's singles, women's singles and women's doubles events, and two seats in the mixed doubles event, with a guaranteed minimum of 5 medals.
Chen Qingchen from Guangdong and his partner Jia Yifan will face the hosts Matsumoto Mayu/Nagahara Kakana in the women's doubles semi-final today; Zhao Junpeng, who entered the men's singles semi-final alone, will compete with Thailand's rising star Kun Lavut in the final; In the semifinals, Chen Yufei, the female feather singles sister, met Tai Tzu-ying from Chinese Taipei; Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong and Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping will compete for the mixed doubles final.
Partner broke the news: Chen Qingchen has an amazing appetite
Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, who were listed as the top seeds in the women's doubles, made their debut at 9 o'clock Beijing time yesterday. They eliminated the Thai combination Zonggongpan/Ba Zongzai 21-16 and 21-7 in just 45 minutes, making it easy to advance. Semifinals.
Jia Yifan revealed that she and Chen Qingchen have a strong desire to win in this quarter-final, because if they win, they can get a medal and complete their pre-match goals. She hopes to continue to win in the next game.
Chen Qingchen gave himself and his partner 7 to 8 points for yesterday's performance. If he didn't give 10 points, he hoped that the two would still have room for improvement.
She also revealed that the key to their winning is to eat well and sleep well, so that they can face new challenges with full energy.
She revealed that she loves meat.
Jia Yifan added that Chen Qingchen not only loves meat, but also eats an amazing amount of food. When he eats 50 grams, his partner needs to eat 250 grams.
Chen Qingchen admitted that since the game was the first in the morning, she couldn't "sleep well".
She said that when she was a child, she was in a bad mood when she was playing games before 12 noon. When she grew up, she learned to adjust her mentality, but she was still afraid of games in the morning and worried that her lack of sleep would affect her state.
Coincidentally, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, who have accumulated 33 consecutive victories since the beginning of this year, also revealed in the semi-finals that an important part of their pre-match preparation is to eat well and sleep well.
Huang Yaqiong revealed that he ate beef the most during the World Championships, while Zheng Siwei said that he was not a picky eater and liked to try various dishes.
"Only seedling" Zhao Junpeng locks in the men's singles medal
Among the three national feather men's singles main players participating in the World Championships, only 26-year-old Zhao Junpeng advanced to the quarterfinals.
In yesterday's quarter-finals, facing India's Prannoy, who had previously eliminated No. 2 seed Kento Momota, Zhao Junpeng lost a game 19-21. In the second game, he took advantage of the headwind half to 21 A win over 6.
In the tiebreaker, Zhao Junpeng won another game 21-18 and successfully reversed his opponent.
Entering the semi-finals will allow Zhao Junpeng to lock in at least one bronze medal, and he will compete with Thailand's 21-year-old star Kun Lavut for the final seat in the semi-finals.
Kunlavut has won three consecutive World Youth Championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
The last time Zhao Junpeng and Kunlawut played against each other was the Malaysia Open in June. At that time, the two played three games and Zhao Junpeng lost 1-2.
He said that at present, his state is getting better and better, and he does not have too much ideological burden. He is very familiar with the wind direction of the competition venue and will fully attack the opponent in the semi-finals.
Chen Yufei meets "Olympic rival" Tai Tzu-ying again
Facing the 13th seed Li Wenshan of the Canadian team, Chen Yufei did not give her opponent any chance in the quarter-finals. She ended the game 21-18, 21-17.
In the previous 1/8 finals, Chen Yufei played 3 games before defeating Thailand's Li Weiwei 2-1.
She said that although there were mistakes during yesterday's game, there was no situation where the opponents won the next game by losing points in a row like the 1/8 finals.
She believes that this is because she is good at summarizing each game, and finds that the problem can be solved immediately, so as to successfully avoid repeating the same mistakes in subsequent games.
Although Chen Yufei is expensive as the Olympic women's singles champion, she has never been crowned at the World Championships. Her best results are the two bronze medals in women's singles in 2017 and 2019.
Chen Yufei herself is very eager to win the women's singles championship at the World Championships.
In fact, the Chinese team has not reached the World Championships in women's singles for 11 years. The last time they won the championship was Wang Yihan at the 2011 World Championships in London.
Now, Chen Yufei is still two victories away from reaching the top. In today's women's singles semifinal, she and Tai Tzu-ying will reproduce the women's singles final of last year's Tokyo Olympics.
In the battle record, Tai Tzu Ying has the absolute upper hand with 17 wins and 6 losses.
However, in the women's singles final at the Tokyo Olympics last year, she lost to Chen Yufei 1-2.
Entering 2022, the two have played against each other 4 times, with each accumulating two wins and two losses.
Their last two encounters were the Malaysia Masters and the Malaysia Open, where Chen Yufei defeated Tai Tzu Ying twice.
Regarding this semi-final, Chen Yufei said that she will calm down and attack her opponent: "Be yourself as the main force, don't think too much, just go all out."