Original title: French Badminton Open advances to the top 16 (title)
“Tuou” is excited and nervous when standing on the Olympic venue (theme)
China Sports News reporter Zhou Yuan
“I hope I can still appear in this arena in five months.” On March 5, Beijing time, the Paris Olympic badminton test event and the French Badminton Open ushered in the first competition day. The national badminton men’s doubles pair Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi said after defeating the Chinese Taipei pair Zhang Keqi/Bai Liwei 2-1 that day to advance to the top 16. Standing at the Paris Olympics venue, the “Tuou” group was both excited and nervous.
The 30-year-old Ou Xuanyi and the 28-year-old Liu Yuchen are undoubtedly the men’s doubles team with the oldest average age in the Chinese badminton team. Now the two are working together to fight for tickets to the Paris Olympics. For “Brother Ou” who is thirty years old, making his Olympic debut is his biggest goal. For “Tutu” who has already won the Olympic runner-up, standing on the Olympic stage for the second time is also the biggest motivation for him to persevere.
But this pair of veterans only partnered in 2022. On the road to the Olympics, they are performing the story of “veterans’ new stories” and need to compete with many young players. At present, the “Tuou” combination ranks seventh in Olympic points, ranking among the top eight, but they have not locked in the qualification for the Paris Olympics. The points difference between the combinations ranked eighth to tenth is not big. There is still more than a month left before the deadline for the Olympic points competition, and there are still many games to compete for points. Faced with this situation, starting from the French Open, the “Tuou” combination will go all out and win every game. competition and maintain the current lead.
French Open Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi are the No. 8 seeds in the tournament. Their first opponent is the Chinese Taipei pair Zhang Keqi/Bai Liwei who are playing against each other for the first time. The latter is only ranked 39th in the world, but the whole game was “Tuou”. “The combination and the opponent fought very hard. After 55 minutes of fierce battle, they won 21-18, 15-21, 21-15 and narrowly won 2-1. Coming to the Olympic venues and adapting to the wind direction of the venues is also an important purpose of Guoyu’s Olympic test match. “In the second game, we didn’t play well when facing the wind. We started passively, made more mistakes ourselves, and our opponents played harder.” Liu Yuchen said, “In the third game, we tried every means to actively reverse the situation and finally won the game. Although we encountered There were some difficulties, but the overall handling was pretty good.” Ou Xuanyi said that the first time he played against his opponent, the most important thing was to be yourself, but he failed to control the wind direction well in the second game.
Coming to the Paris Olympic venue and standing in the Olympic venue gave the “Tuou” group a different idea. “I really want to win, but I am also very nervous.” Liu Yuchen said. “I hope I can still see myself here in five months,” the introverted Ou Xuanyi said euphemistically.
Faced with the current situation, the “Tuou” combination must go all out. “Now that we have not determined the qualification for the Olympics, we must work hard to play every game well.” Liu Yuchen hopes that he and Ou Xuanyi can continue to work harder towards the Olympic goal.
In other national badminton matches that day, in men’s singles, Li Shifeng defeated Japanese player Koki Watanabe 21-11, 21-17. Weng Hongyang fought fiercely for three games, but was reversed 1-2 by Indonesian star Ginting and stopped in the first round. In the women’s singles competition, Wang Zhiyi, who is in the top half, defeated Malaysian player Wu Jintian 21-10, 21-14. Li Wenmei/Liu Xuanxuan, who took the lead in the women’s doubles match, defeated Yang Yating/Yang Peilin of Hong Kong, China 21-15, 21-12. In mixed doubles, top seeds Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong defeated Canadian combination Lindemann/Wu Wanling 21-7, 21-15 and successfully advanced to the top 16.
2024-03-06 05:27:00
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