People's Daily Online, Beijing, February 16 (Reporter Ou Xingrong) On February 15, local time, the 2024 Asian Badminton Team Championships ended the third day of competition in Selangor, Malaysia. In the men's team group stage, the Chinese team defeated the Indian team with a big score of 3:2 and advanced to the quarterfinals as the group leader.
The 2024 Badminton Asia Team Championships was held in Selangor, Malaysia from 13-18 February. A total of 15 men's and 11 women's teams will participate in the tournament, which is also the Thomas Cup and Uber Cup qualifiers to be held in Chengdu at the end of April this year, and the top four men's and women's teams will qualify. Since it is in the Olympic points competition stage, this competition can also compete for Olympic points.
The national team did not send all the main lineup in this event, but sent 20 young players, 10 male and 10 female athletes. Among them, the men's singles are Lu Guangzu, Weng Hongyang, Lei Lanxi, Wang Zhengxing; Men's doubles players He Jiting, Ren Xiangyu, Chen Boyang, Liu Yi, Xie Haonan and Zeng Weihan. Women's singles are Han Yue, Wang Zhiyi, Chen Lu, Wu Luoyu; The women's doubles players include Liu Shengshu, Tan Ning, Li Yijing, Luo Xumin, Keng Shuliang, and Zhang Chi.
The Chinese men's team is in the same group as the Indian men's team and the Hong Kong, China men's team, and the Chinese women's team is in the same group as the Indian women's team. In the group stage of the women's team, although the Chinese women's team lost to the Indian women's team 2:3, it still advanced to the quarterfinals as the second in the group.
In the first round of the men's team group stage, the Chinese team defeated the Hong Kong, China team 5:0 and got off to a good start. In the second round of the game against the Indian team, Weng Hongyang, who took the lead, lost to India's "first brother" Pranoi 1:2, Chen Baiyang and Liu Yi then beat Arjun Kapila 2:1 to pull back a city, Lei Lanxi lost to Lakshya 0:2 in the third game, Ren Xiangyu Xie Haonan beat Wotara 2:0 in the fourth game Prutvi equalized the big score on the field again, and Wang Zhengxing defeated Chirag 2:0 in the decisive game and scored a key point for the Chinese team. The Chinese men's team defeated the Indian men's team with a big score of 3:2 and advanced to the quarterfinals as the first in the group.
In the next eight-in-four match, the Chinese men's team will play against the Indonesian men's team, and the Chinese women's team will compete with the Japanese women's team.