Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Wang Xiaoxiao
On the 11th Beijing time, the Finals of the World Badminton World Tour ended in Bangkok, Thailand. The Chinese team appeared in the finals of three doubles events that day and won all three championships. Among them, mixed doubles star Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong won the 10th championship of the season.
This year's finals is the last international event that the Chinese badminton team will participate in this season. After a season of fierce competition, a total of 8 players or combinations of national badminton have qualified for the competition, and players in all five individual events have been shortlisted. After three rounds of group matches and a round of knockout matches, a pair of players from each of the three doubles events entered the final.
On the 11th, the men's doubles final was the first to start. The world's 11th-ranked Liu Yuchen / Ou Xuanyi fought hard for three games and beat the veteran Indonesian who had just defeated in the group stage by 21-17, 19-21, 21-12 The combination of Ahshan /Styawan won the third championship this season. As a new combination that just debuted in March this year, "Outu" has defeated high-ranking players many times after joining hands, and won the championship with a record of victory in the finals this time. The last time Guoyu reached the finals was in Guangzhou four years ago. At that time, it was Liu Yuchen and his old partner Li Junhui who won the championship.
When summarizing this season after the game, Ou Xuanyi, who won the championship in the first finals, said that after a year of training, his mentality has matured a lot, and his cooperation with his teammates in the second half of the year has become more tacit. Liu Yuchen bluntly said that winning the championship shows that the direction of their efforts is right, "So we must continue to go step by step. The championship is our goal. Today we completed it. All championships are obtained through hard work. I hope the new season will continue. Work hard."
In the subsequent women's doubles final, Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan swept the host group Amisad Sisters 21-13, 21-14, and won the title for the third time after 2016 and 2019 The champion of the finals also won the fifth championship title of the season. "I am very happy to have a perfect ending, but in fact perfection is not beautiful." Jia Yifan said after the game, "I still encountered a lot of difficulties in the game this year, but fortunately they were adjusted and corrected in time, and we have come to where we are today." Victory." As for the future, the two said that there is still a lot of room for improvement, "I hope it will be better every year."
faced the world's number one host player and defending champion in the mixed doubles final. Dechapo/Sasili, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong defeated their opponents 21-19, 18-21, 21-13, won the finals for the second time, and rewritten their record against the former to 11 wins and 2 losses. This season, the "IELTS" team rejoined hands after a short split, and finally staged "The Return of the King" with an astonishing 10 championships. At the World Badminton Federation's annual awards ceremony before the finals, the two also won the Best Combination Award. After the game, the two said that the opponent's performance was very good and created great difficulties for themselves. "I am very happy to win, and I am very happy to have a happy ending (perfect ending)!"
