Dominate the badminton world

Chapter 371 Sudirman Cup
During the Singapore Open, Chen Long also flew over from China and arrived in Singapore before Wang Yu and the others to participate in the competition.

A few days later, Wang Yu defeated Hu Yun to enter the final, Chen Long defeated Momota Kento to enter the final, and then Wang Yu and Chen Long met again in the final.

This time, perhaps because of Chen Long's poor form, he finally lost to Wang Yu with a big score of 2-0. After Wang Yu lost to Chen Long twice, he finally won Chen Long once.

What made Wang Yu happy was that Cheng Yanchen and Long Haotian actually won the Super Tournament again, winning the men's doubles championship in the Singapore Badminton Open.

After the Singapore Badminton Open, the Chinese team immediately set off to return to China, and then began to prepare for the Sudirman Cup to be held in Dongguan, Guangdong from May 5th to 10th.

With less than one month left before the Sudirman Cup, Li Yongbo simply took the main players of the national team to the national team badminton training base in Dongguan for training.

After the arrangement of the General Administration of Sports and Li Yongbo, the men's singles sent Wang Yu, Chen Long and Lin Dan three top players, the women's singles had the Olympic champion Li Xuerui, and the men's doubles was the new and old combination of Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan. There is Cheng Yanchen and Long Haotian, the rookie pair. In the women's doubles, there are Yu Yang, Ma Jin, and Zhao Yunlei from their hometowns. There is also newcomer Tang Yuanting. As for the mixed doubles, there are Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan, Xu Chen and Ma Jin.

This lineup, at a glance, is enough to look down on the entire badminton world. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a super team of immortals, it is simply a super team with no loopholes.

The Sudirman Cup is also the only major event that Wang Yu cares about besides the Olympics.

The Sudirman Cup, also known as the World Badminton Mixed Team Championship, has been held since 1989 and is held every two years in odd-numbered years.

The Sudirman Cup is a trophy donated by the Indonesian Badminton Association to the International Badminton Federation on behalf of the people of their country.

The competition adopts a five-match three-win system, consisting of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. It is the most important world competition representing the overall level of badminton in each country or region. It is as famous as the Tongyu Cup .

The competition also adopts a relegation system, that is, the last place in each level is relegated to the next level, and the first place in the next level is promoted to the upper level. Only 12 teams in the first level are eligible to participate in the championship competition.

All the main players of the Chinese badminton team are training hard in the national badminton team training base in Dongguan. Now Cheng Yanchen and Long Haotian are used to getting up at four o'clock to train with Wang Yu.

Chen Long is also continuing to work with Wang Yu. The relationship between the two is not bad, but the comments on the Internet some time ago made them a little embarrassed.

Wang Yu also talked to Chen Long several times, telling Chen Long not to take it personally, but Chen Long is an athlete with strong self-esteem, and no one can persuade him until he proves himself, so Wang Yu can only express support.

On May 5th, Wang Yu and the others did not train intensively, but played every day, mainly to maintain their state, and waited for the start of the Sudirman Cup.

Beginning on May 5, a series of inspections and tests will be conducted on 8 teams from various countries or regions.

At 5 a.m. on May 10th, the opening ceremony of the Sudirman Cup brought together the world's top badminton players, which can be said to be the hottest event in badminton in 9 years.

The 12 teams in the first level are China, Thailand, and Germany in Group A, Japan, Taiwan, and Russia in Group B, Denmark, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom in Group C, and South Korea, India, and Malaysia in Group D.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Sudirman Cup group stage is just starting. The group cycle needs to play 5 games, and then the top two in the group will qualify.

The first game of the Chinese team was against the German team. After five games, Wang Yu did not play, and the Chinese team completely crushed the German team 5-0, very easily.

Because it is a team competition, the number of games is extremely large and the order is very complicated. The second group game of the Chinese team will not start until the day after tomorrow.

That is, it started at 12:[-] p.m. on the [-]th, and the opponent was the Thai team.

At 12:5 pm on the 0th, the fate of the Thai team was exactly the same as that of the German team. They were also obliterated by the Chinese team with a big score of [-]-[-]. Wang Yu still did not play.

However, Cheng Yanchen and Long Haotian were extremely excited, saying that they had a great time playing, which made Wang Yu quite envious.

On the afternoon of the 14th, all the group matches had been played, and the top eight teams had been determined, namely China, Germany, South Korea, Malaysia, Denmark, Japan, Indonesia and Taiwan.

Then the 8 teams were arranged by lottery. Coincidentally, the German team was drawn to the Chinese team again. Because the knockout round is a five-match three-win system, the German team was directly sent away by the Chinese team 3-0. .

On the 15th, all the top 8 matches and ranking matches were finished. Among the teams that entered the top four, in addition to the Chinese team, there were also the Japanese team, the Korean team, and the Indonesian team.

The 16th is the semi-final of the Sudirman Cup. The opponent of the Chinese team is the Indonesian team. The start time is [-] pm, and the start time of South Korea and Japan is [-] pm.

Among them, the first match between the Chinese team and the Indonesian team was the men's doubles match, with Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan playing against Mohd Ahsan and Setiawan.

Although Cheng Yanchen and Long Haotian defeated Mohammad Ahsan and Setiawan in the previous Indian Open and won the men's doubles championship in the Indian Open, but because of the performance of Cheng Yanchen and Long Haotian Not stable enough, for the sake of safety, only the experienced Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan can play.

Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan did not disappoint their teammates, and successfully defeated Mohd Ahsan and Setiawan 2-0, winning the first match of the semi-final for the Chinese team.

The second match was the women's singles match. Li Xuerui played against Indonesia's Manubutti, but during the match, Manubutti chose to retire due to injury, and Li Xuerui did not fight. Victory, another victory for the Chinese team.

In the third game, Chen Long played against Indonesia's talented young player Jonathan.

Today's Jonathan is not conspicuous enough in Chen Long's eyes, and he is far from being Chen Long's opponent. Chen Long has only one move to beat Jonatan to death, that is, unscrupulously pick the ball for Jonatan.

But Jonathan couldn't kill Chen Long at all, and was often backhanded by Chen Long. In the end, Jonathan was almost beaten to collapse by Chen Long, losing two games in a row, and was defeated by Chen Long miserably.

So far, the Chinese team has been undefeated in the semi-finals of this year's Sudirman Cup. After seeing it, all the teams are filled with strong awe in their hearts.

At [-] o'clock in the evening, the Japanese team and the South Korean team played very stalemate, and abruptly reached the fifth game, the decisive game.

In the end, the semi-finals of the Sudirman Cup ended with the decisive match won by the Japanese team.

This is also the second time that the Chinese team and the Japanese team have met in a world-class team competition after the Thomas Cup and the Uber Cup last year.

As if arranged by fate, all the athletes of the Chinese team were excited.

(End of this chapter)