Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan won the gold medal for the fourth time in women’s doubles in the World Championships.
With the "Fanchen Group" winning the women’s doubles final with a 2-0 victory over Indonesia, Guoyu ended the journey of the 2023 World Championships in Copenhagen.
This champion also saved Guo Yu’s face-this is the only gold medal of the team in this World Championships. Since Guo Yu participated in the World Championships in 1983, the record of winning gold medals in every session has been extended.
But the reality is cruel-since 2019, China has won only one gold medal in three of the four World Championships it has participated in.
Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan achieved three consecutive World Championships.
only son and heir
As one of the most stable points for the China badminton team to compete for gold, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan never let people down.
After all the way to the semi-finals, they first defeated Guoyu teammate Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu 2-0 in the semi-final, and then in the final, they made great efforts to win the Indonesian group Lahayu/Sidi 2-0 again and successfully took away the championship trophy.
However, the arrival of the gold medal is not as easy as it seems.
Being the focus of the team’s competition for gold means that the pressure on the shoulders is also beyond others. In the semi-final, Jia Yifan admitted to the media that he and his teammates would also feel pressure."My hands were cold when I went up in the morning, and I knew she was still quite nervous."
In the final, the two men also resisted the stubborn resistance of their opponents. "We have always maintained a high morale, so when we encounter difficulties, including when we don’t win the championship, we are still eager to win the gold medal again and again." Jia Yifan sighed after the game.
As they said, being able to stay at the peak level of women’s doubles for many years is inseparable from excellent willpower and ideological quality. While this gold medal became the only gold medal of Guoyu in this World Championships, it also created the history of two people.
"Fanchen Group" has won the gold medal in the women’s doubles event in the World Championships for four times, creating the history of this event, and also achieving three consecutive championships in the World Championships.
Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong lost to the Korean group.
There is no "sure win"
While "Fanchen Group" enjoyed the joy of winning the gold medal, another China group "IELTS Group" had to taste the bitterness of the final.
In the final of mixed doubles, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong played against the Korean group Xu Chengzai/Cai Yougan, who had never lost in the previous nine matches-however, there was no "sure win" on the field. In the end, the Guoyu group won the runner-up 1-2.
In this game, the "IELTS combination" was suppressed by the opponent in the first game, losing the first game on 17-21, and then pulling back a city with a big score advantage of 21-10 in the second game.
However, when the audience in China were expecting a reversal, the Korean team in the deciding game took the lead early …
After losing the game, Zheng Siwei generously hugged his opponent and sent congratulations, but after the game, the regret of missing the championship was beyond words.
"IELTS Team" has won three World Championships before, and winning another championship can also make history in mixed doubles … "It’s a pity, because you can seize the opportunity in the process. The second game has actually been pulled back, but when I changed sides, I don’t know how to play it again. " Zheng Siwei sighed helplessly.
As a result, Guoyu’s achievements in this World Championships are fixed at 1 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronzes. The team also won only 1 gold in the World Championships after the 2021 World Championships.
On the gold medal list, Guoyu ranked second after the South Korean team with 3 gold medals and 1 bronze medal.
Shi Yuqi lost to Japan’s Nara Okada.
Sound the alarm
In this World Championships, Guo Yu failed to win the championship in both women’s doubles and mixed doubles, but the overall advantage was still reflected-in the semi-finals of these two events, Guo Yu’s "civil war" was staged.
But in other projects, the challenges encountered by the team are very obvious.
In the men’s singles event, Shi Yuqi, the leader whose state has not yet recovered to the best, lost 0-2 to Japan’s Nara Okada in the quarter-finals; Li Shifeng lost 0-2 to China Taipei player Tzu Wei Wang in the eighth final; Zhao Junpeng and Lu Guangzu stopped in the first and second rounds respectively.
In the men’s doubles event, Wang Chang/Liang Weikeng, a post-00 group, fought fiercely with stroop/Rasmussen, the host group, in the semi-final, and finally lost by 2 points in the deciding game.
Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi stopped in the top 8, He Jiting/Zhou Haodong stopped in the top 16, and Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang stopped in the second round …
It is not difficult to see that Guo Yu is facing a situation of strong enemies in both men’s singles and men’s doubles, especially in men’s singles. In this World Championships, men’s singles is also the only event in which Guo Yu has not advanced to the semi-finals.
Chen Yufei again negative Ann wash jade-like stone.
In the women’s singles, Chen Yufei, the only one of Guoyu who broke into the semi-finals, once again lost to the victim An Xiying, which is the fifth time that Chen Yufei lost in the seven meetings with An Xiying this season.
Throughout history, Guo Yu has never won a gold medal since he participated in the World Championships in 1983. However, before 2019, only two events won only one gold medal, and since 2019, three events have won only one gold medal. The challenges faced by the team can be seen.
A year later, the Paris Olympic Games will start, and the fierce situation of the World Championships is enough to sound the alarm for Guoyu.
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