Big upset!The World Championships champion lost 2 in a row, and Liu Yuchen reversed Ou Xuanyi 2 1 to advance in advance
On December 14th, the second round of the World Badminton Championships officially began. Men's World Championship gold medalists Xie Dingfeng and Su Weiyi lost 1:2 to Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi, suffered two defeats and withdrew from the game earlyWorld Women's Singles Champion Matomo Matsumoto Kazuko Nagahara withdrew from the tournament due to injury when he was down 1-1, also losing 2 games, and withdrew from the tournament early.
Liu Yuchen, Ou Xuanyi, 2:1, Xie Dingfeng, Su Wei (English).
Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi were the eventual winners of this tournament, and they were divided into the "Group of Death" against Liang Weijian and Wang Chang, as well as Xie Su, the "little nanny" pair of the World Championships. In this opening match, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi defeated the "top seed" Liang Wang with a score of 2-1 and achieved their first victory. Xie Dingfeng and Su Wei lost 2-1 to Takuro Hoki and Yutake Kobayashi, and both games ended in defeat. Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi played 5 matches with Xie Dingfeng and Su Weiyi, and in the end Liu Ou won by a narrow margin of 3-2.
In the first game, the two teams went back and forth at the beginning, alternating offense and defense, and the scores were always very close. Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi showed a more conservative side in the final set, and finally lost with a score of 21-18.
In the second game, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuan played relatively slowly as soon as they came up, and soon widened the gap between the two sides to five to ten. Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi changed his style of play, no longer playing fast and fast, but attacking instead of defending, and pulled the score to 12-12. After that, the score remained 19-19. Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi scored consecutive points at the last minute to chase the score to 21-19.
The third game is the most intense one. Every game was a high-level game, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi saved two chances when they fell behind 20-18, and finally won 22-20.
After two games, Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi have already qualified for the semifinals, while Xie Dingfeng and Su Weiyi lost two games in a row and were eliminated early.
In the women's singles, world champion Matsumoto Nagahara Kona takes on young Chinese player Tan Ning and Liu Shengshu. In the first set, Kazuna Matsumoto Nagahara kept scoring in the final stages and took a 21-19 lead. In the second set, the Chinese player performed well on both ends of the floor, taking a 21-11 lead. In the third game, he withdrew from the game due to injuries.
Mayu Matsumoto Nagahara and Kana were also eliminated early. Tan Ning and Liu Shengshu lost one game at a time, and in the final, Rahayu and Rama Dandi fought for the final qualification.