All England: China wins two silvers in mixed doubles and women’s doubles
2022-03-21 15:31:19Source: Xinhuanet
Xinhua News Agency, London, March 20 (Reporter Zhang Wei) All 5 finals of the All England Badminton Open were held on the 20th. The two Chinese teams that entered the finals failed to win. In the end, Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping won the mixed doubles silver medal. , Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu won the women’s doubles runner-up.
Olympic champions Wang Yilyu/Huang Dongping played against Japan’s No. 4 seed Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino. The two pairs have played against each other 12 times before, and the Chinese team has won 10 times, including the semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympics. In this match, Wang Yilyu/Huang Dongping took the lead in the first half of the two games, but they were caught up by their opponents and lost two 19:21.
“We can see that Wang Yilyu is obviously tired, so we try to target him as much as possible,” said Higashino Arisa, who reached the podium in the mixed doubles event of the All England for the third time with her partner. Watanabe Yuda said that they both started behind, “but we were not discouraged and worked hard to catch up. This is the key to our victory.”
Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu, who have only played together since last week’s German Open, will make it all the way to the finals this time, but they were unable to continue to upset Japan’s No. 7 seeds Matsuyama Naomi/Shida Chiyo, 13:21, 9 :21 lost.
Matsuyama Naomi/Shida Chiyo also reached the final of the All England last year, but lost to teammates Matsumoto Mayu/Nagahara Wakana. The next year in Birmingham, Naomi Matsuyama/Shida Chiyo are the only seeded combination to reach the women’s doubles semi-final. The two won the gold in 5 games without losing a game.
The men’s singles Olympic champion Ansailong also “upgraded” the silver medal in last year’s All England to a gold medal. The top seed from Denmark has won the All England twice in three years with a 21:10 and 21:15 victory over Indian star Rakeshya, who beat himself at the German Open just last week.
In addition, the world champion and Japanese star Akane Yamaguchi won the women’s singles gold medal, and the Indonesian combination Fikri/Maurana won the men’s doubles championship.