The Uber Cup China team enters the semi-finals to face the host Chen Yufei: The team competition must show its momentum
Hangzhou Daily News The 2022 Uber Cup Women’s Badminton Team Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand has entered the knockout round. On May 12, Beijing time, the Chinese team faced the Indonesian team in the quarter-finals, and finally won three consecutive games, successfully eliminated their opponents, and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
The Indonesian team sent a young team to the competition this time, and the oldest player on the playing list against the Chinese team was only 21 years old, intending to train the team.
The first confrontation between the two sides was between the Tokyo Olympic women’s singles champion, Hangzhou star Chen Yufei and Indonesian teenager Dewei. Chen Yufei took the initiative from the beginning of the game and started with a 7-0 lead. Although Dewei narrowed the gap for a while, Chen Yufei still won the next game 21-12.
In the second game, the stable Chen Yufei still had the upper hand on the court. She also opened the point difference at the beginning, and then the point difference further widened. After winning the second game 21-11, Chen Yufei came out on top for the Chinese team.
In the next doubles match, facing Indonesia’s Kusuma/Prativi, the Chinese team Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan fell behind in the first game, but they succeeded in overtaking, and then they became more and more brave and suppressed their opponents. Win another game and finally beat the opponent 2-0 (21-19, 21-16), helping the Chinese team lead 2-0.
The third game was between He Bingjiao and the Indonesian teenager Placista. Prior to this, Placista won three games in the group stage, and even beat the world number one Akane Yamaguchi in an upset, winning huge attention.
Facing He Bingjiao, Placista really showed good strength, 21 to 19 in the next game. Fortunately, He Bingjiao improved her performance in time. After pulling back a city 21-18 in the second game, she won the decisive game 21-7 to complete the reversal. In this regard, the Chinese team eliminated the Indonesian team 3-0 neatly and took the lead in entering the semi-finals.
Previously, in the group stage, the Chinese team faced almost no resistance, and swept the Australia, Spain and Chinese Taipei teams successively, showing extremely strong combat effectiveness.
In this Uber Cup, the ultimate goal of the Chinese team is to complete the defense and win the 16th championship trophy in team history. The girls are making steady progress towards their goal of defending champions, who will face hosts Thailand in the semi-finals this afternoon.
Chen Yufei said that there is a big difference between participating in a team competition and a single competition. “In a single competition, you will play by yourself. If you lose, you will feel sad, but the discomfort and sadness caused by losing a team competition will be even greater. Everyone will be nervous, so the more important thing is to bring out the momentum.”
In the final competition of the Thomas Cup men’s badminton team group match on May 11, the Chinese team and the Danish team fought fiercely for 6 hours, and finally lost 2-3 and advanced to the quarter-finals with the second place in the group. The opponent is the defending champion Indonesia team.
