Dominate the badminton world

Chapter 147 Lin Dan Retires

In the evening, Wang Yu was training in the hotel's gym. He was wearing a tight black vest, showing off his muscular and strong muscles. When other athletes saw him, they all looked envious.

"Wang Yu, if you share half of your muscles with me, I will be satisfied." Du Pengyu is relatively thin in the men's singles. He is holding a dumbbell and is practicing wrist strength.

"Haha, it must be that you don't eat enough protein powder." Wang Yu smiled and was doing squats with a barbell on his shoulders.

"Wang Yu, come here." Lin Dan suddenly appeared at the entrance of the gym and waved to Wang Yu.

"Okay, Brother Dan." Wang Yu put down the barbell, put a towel on his shoulders, wiped his sweat, and walked out.

At the end of the corridor, Lin Dan leaned on the solid wooden railing of the corridor, looking out of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the tall buildings surrounded by gorgeous lights, and even the clouds in the night sky were dyed the color of the lights.

Wang Yu came to Lin Dan's side and also put his hands on the railing.

Lin Dan looked at Wang Yu, smiled and said, "Play well."

"I will." Wang Yu nodded, not understanding Lin Dan's intention.

"These two days of competition have made my shoulder injury show signs of recurrence, so I don't plan to participate in tomorrow's competition." Lin Dan looked at the vehicles passing by on the street and said, "This is your first time participating in an international competition. Try to win this Asian Championship and let the world know you."

Wang Yu's eyes flashed, and he looked at Lin Dan in surprise.

Lin Dan said helplessly: "I can't help it. I want to participate in the World Championships. It's important to recover from my injuries."

Wang Yu was surprised. He didn't expect Lin Dan to retire. He still didn't speak.

"It's better when you're young, rest early, I'm leaving." Lin Dan reached out and patted Wang Yu's shoulder, and then walked away.

"I actually retired..." Wang Yu was in a complicated mood. Originally, he was ready to fight Lin Dan again, but he didn't expect this result.

Although Wang Yu still wanted to fight Lin Dan a few more times, but this time Lin Dan retired, Wang Yu felt mixed feelings, after all, he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to beat Lin Dan now.

The next day, the Organizing Committee of the Asian Championships announced that Lin Dan had retired due to a shoulder injury, which immediately aroused heated discussions among the fans at the scene, as well as major media scrambling to find Lin Dan for interviews.

Many people looked disappointed. This is Lin Dan's first comeback to participate in an international competition since the London Olympics, but he did not expect to withdraw suddenly, which made many fans unacceptable for a while.

Many people even pointed the finger at Wang Yu, thinking that Lin Dan retired to make the new player Wang Yu, which made the fans unacceptable, thinking that Wang Yu had no virtue and ability to let Lin Dan retire.

Only a few people have some expectations for Wang Yu, want to see what kind of ability Wang Yu has, why let Lin Dan retire for him?
Without the match between Wang Yu and Lin Dan, the quarter-finals of men's singles were played very quickly. The players who finally advanced to the top four included Wang Yu, Du Pengyu, Chen Long who won without a fight, and Malaysian player Zhang Weifeng.

In the semifinals, Wang Yu's opponent was Zhang Weifeng.

April 4th is the semi-final of the Badminton Asian Championships, and Wang Yu's game will be in the morning.

After the check-in, Wang Yu was ushered into the arena by the beauty staff of the contest. He also saw his opponent Zhang Weifeng who entered the arena. He was not as strong as Wang Yu, and was about the same size as Li Zongwei. He was less than [-] meters tall, and his explosive power should be pretty good.

After Wang Yu entered the arena, he vaguely heard unpleasant voices coming from his ears, some were sarcasm, some were cursing.

"Hmph, a novice who entered the semi-finals only because of Super Dan's retirement. Unfortunately, he was unlucky. He met players from other countries. If he met his teammates, it would probably be another water battle, and then let him advance. "

"Hehe, they probably didn't expect that Zhang Weifeng was missed. If the top four were all Chinese teams, maybe Wang Yu, a rookie, would win the championship."

"Zhang Weifeng is 26 years old this year. He has many years of competition experience, and his skills and tactics are strong. After this competition, this Wang Yu can go away."

"He probably has a hard-charging backstage. In order to get a ranking, he will do whatever it takes. It's disgusting!"

Wang Yu frowned slightly, but he didn't expect that Lin Dan's retirement made so many people excited, but he was shot while lying down, a little speechless.

Wang Yu suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, walked onto the field, and warmed up with Zhang Weifeng.

Zhang Weifeng didn't have much expression on his face, but he was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that he was very lucky.

In Zhang Weifeng's view, if Lin Dan does not retire, his opponent in the semi-finals must be Lin Dan, and he will have no chance of winning.

"As long as it is not Lin Dan, there is no suspense for me to reach the final. Even if I win the championship, it is not impossible." With this in mind, Zhang Weifeng felt that the touch of the ball should be a little better. It's like endless power gushing out from the body.

……

"...On my right, Wang Yu, the Chinese team, on my left, Zhang Weifeng, the Malaysian team, Zhang Weifeng serves, the game starts, 0-0."

Zhang Weifeng sent a small ball, Wang Yu stretched out his racket and rubbed the ball back to Zhang Weifeng's left front court, Zhang Weifeng kicked it towards the net, pushed the ball with a forehand, and pushed the badminton to Wang Yu's left back court.

"The left hand is used to shoot..." Wang Yu was taken aback for a moment, and only then did he realize that Zhang Weifeng was left-handed. No wonder he reacted so quickly, Wang Yu didn't pay much attention just now.

"1-0."

"Is this the level? I thought it was cheating, as expected it came with a key." Seeing that Wang Yu lost a goal when he played, many viewers were sneering.
"Good push, let him know that no matter how powerful he is, he can't do whatever he wants on the court!" Many audiences were hooked and applauded.

Wang Yu glanced at the auditorium, walked to the backcourt, scooped up the badminton, and played it to Zhang Weifeng.

"It seems that the level is really not good." With a faint smile on Zhang Weifeng's face, he took the badminton, and after Wang Yu was ready to receive the serve, he lightly served the ball.

This time Wang Yu rubbed the badminton back to Zhang Weifeng's right front court, let Zhang Weifeng turn right and step out with his left foot, stretched out the racket and continued to rub the ball for Wang Yu.

Wang Yu took another step forward and slapped the badminton towards Zhang Weifeng's right backcourt.

Zhang Weifeng turned sideways, crossed to the back court, took off and smashed the diagonal line, and quickly smashed the badminton to Wang Yu's right half.

Wang Yu stepped to the right, extended his racket to block the ball to Zhang Weifeng's left front court, Zhang Weifeng stepped forward quickly after landing, stretched out his racket to hook the ball with a forehand, and hooked the badminton to Wang Yu's left front court.

Wang Yu turned left, stepped his right foot to the left front court, stretched out his racket, and picked the badminton to Zhang Weifeng's right back court, and at the same time launched an over-prediction.

The blue light in Wang Yu's eyes flickered slightly. Seeing Zhang Weifeng turn sideways, he suddenly hit a straight high and long shot, hitting the badminton towards his left backcourt. The ball landed just out of bounds.

So when the ball flew towards his backcourt, Wang Yu just glanced at the shuttlecock, didn't catch the ball, and let the shuttlecock fall.

From Wang Yu's position, the badminton just fell out of bounds just as he saw it.

But in the next second, Wang Yu was bewildered and saw that the backcourt lineman stretched his right hand downwards, making an in-bounds motion.

"What?" Wang Yu's eyes widened, and he was judged to be inside the boundary after being so obviously out of bounds.

The referee ignored Wang Yu's reaction and announced loudly: "2 to 0."

"Way? This's out!" Wang Yu looked at the referee, but the referee still ignored Wang Yu.

"The referee said it was in the circle, why is he beeping? Go back if you can't afford to lose, it's rubbish."

"Don't come out and make a fool of yourself, okay? It's like embarrassing the national team!"

"At first, I still had some expectations for him, but it really disappointed me."

Wang Yu nodded slightly. Since the referee didn't correct him and there was no Hawkeye at this time, Wang Yu stopped talking and went to the backcourt silently, picked up the badminton and hit it to Zhang Weifeng who was gloating.

Wang Yu's left hand drooped slightly, his expression was calm, his eyes were cold, and he was ready to receive the serve.

(End of this chapter)