2023-11-24 06:04:31
[Sports Road Shenzhen Direct Attack]The Hong Kong mixed doubles team Tang Chunwen/Tse Yingsuet, who have successfully qualified for the World Tour year-end competition, will continue to compete in the BWF World Badminton Tour Super 750 Series China Masters Mixed Doubles Top 8 today (24th). Against the Thai combination Dechapol PUAVARANUKROH/Sapsiree TAERATTANACHAI, who eliminated teammates Li Jinxi/Ng Zhirou yesterday, “Deng Xie Pei” won in straight games and advanced to the semi-finals, showing strong momentum.
Tang Junwen/Xie Yingxue
In the BWF World Tour year-end doubles event, only the top eight pairs in the World Tour points can be shortlisted. Yesterday, “Deng Xie Pei” defeated the Chinese Taipei pair Ye Hongwei/Li Jiaxin, who held the last place in the year-end tournament in the second round. And beat the opponent with better points to qualify for the year-end competition, boosting morale. The world’s 11th-ranked “Deng Xie Pei” and the 5th-ranked Thai combination Dechapol PUAVARANUKROH/Sapsiree TAERATTANACHAI have met 8 times before. The Thai combination has the advantage with a record of 7 wins. However, the situation turned around when the two sides met again today.
“Deng Xie Pei” launched a 5:0 offensive at the beginning. Although the opponent recovered a lot of points with strong smashes, the Hong Kong team maintained a 9:4 lead with tricky returns. Xie Yingxue hit a diagonal diagonal. The ball in front of the net made the opponent unable to do anything, and entered the technical timeout with an 11:6 lead. In the second half of the game, the Hong Kong team and their opponents struggled with each other. Deng and Xie repeatedly used large diagonal returns to mobilize their opponents, and then targeted the opponent’s open space and attacked with great success, pushing the score to 16:8 until the Hong Kong team took the lead. At 19:9, the opponent scored 3 points in a row to reverse the momentum on the court. The Xinggang team withstood the pressure and took the lead at 21:12.
Hong Kong team’s head coach Ho Yi-ming (right) and Hong Kong team’s men’s singles coach Wong Chung-han, who takes time out of his private time to coach the mixed doubles.
In the second game, the Hong Kong team continued to be strong, launching an 8:1 offensive at the beginning. Deng Junwen’s multiple smashes from tricky angles made the opponent helpless, and even entered the technical timeout with a huge lead of 11:2. Later, Xie Yingxue hit the ball in front of the net and helped the Hong Kong team open the score to 14:4. The Thai team, which was gradually regaining its touch, now chased 5 points in a row to close to 9:14. Fortunately, the Hong Kong team failed to win. After being disrupted, they scored 3 consecutive points in time to regain the momentum and lead 17:9. However, they were soon chased by 17:11 due to mistakes. However, the Thai team also had a bad touch and repeatedly returned the ball into the net, helping the Hong Kong team lead 20:12. , finally won another game at 21:12 to advance to the semi-finals, and also wrote the best record of “Deng Xie Pei” in the China Masters. Tomorrow, he will compete with the winner of South Korea’s Seo Seung Jae/Cai Yujing or the Chinese combination Cheng Xing/Chen Fanghui. Finals seat.
After the game, “Deng Xie Pei” and “Deng Xie Pei” both said they were relieved. Deng Junwen said bluntly: “Today’s opponent is actually something we have lost many times in a row before. We all want to do our best to fight against them, because there will always be the finals. There is a high chance that they will be their opponents, and I really want to use this game to find out how far they are in terms of strength. I may have a more relaxed mentality today, so I performed better.”
Xie Yingxue also said: “In the past, our opponents seemed to be able to constantly challenge us. Now that we have introduced new technology, we have one more thing to scare them, so they want to speed up in the middle. But fortunately, we can keep up with the speed and are very focused. Even if We can withstand the acceleration. Moreover, today’s playing field is the same as yesterday. One side is more difficult to play, but after absorbing yesterday’s experience, we will know which side we are on at the beginning, and know that we will be prepared for difficulties. We need to be better. But this is the Thai team’s second tournament after recovering from injury, so we won’t say we won. I think we should do a better job next time.”
Xie Yingxue also thanked her family for coming to the scene to support her: “On the first day of the game, I felt that I did not perform well, but their coming to the scene was a great support for me. In fact, I was quite tired, but the coach told us Think of it as studying more and trying out the things you have learned recently, so you won’t be so tired when you play with a relaxed mind. When you are not so nervous, you can often calm down and play what we have.”
Tomorrow will play in the semi-finals. Deng Junwen bluntly said that the key is to understand the playing styles of different opponents: “Each team actually has their own different playing styles. Play with them more and absorb more different playing styles. I hope that no matter what our results are this week, , I can all summarize it, and I will have one more week to prepare for the year-end competition when I return to Hong Kong.”
Pictures and interviews: Xu Fei
Text: He Zishan
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[China Badminton Championships·Direct Attack]”Deng Xie Pei” bravely defeats the Thai combination and reaches the semi-finals. Light equipment is the key to victory」
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