Tai Tzu-ying, Taiwan’s first badminton player, stopped in the top four of the Super 1000 All England Open last week. (Photo/File photo/Badminton Photo provided)
Tai Ziying, the top badminton player from Taiwan, stopped in the top 4 of the Super 1000 All England Open last week. Runner-up in the All England Tournament, the points officially surpassed Dai Ziying, causing Xiao Dai’s latest world ranking to drop to No. 4. In this regard, she also announced on social media afterwards that next year should be the last time to participate in the All England Championships, which seems to imply that she is not far from retirement, and the news shocked all walks of life.
Tai Tzu-ying has been out of the semi-finals for two consecutive tournaments this year. Last week, she faced South Korea’s “gifted girl” An Se-young in the semi-finals of the women’s singles at the All England Championships. The two sides fought fiercely for 1 hour and 22 minutes. Unfortunately, they were still defeated in the end. . As a result, Xiao Dai’s points this week were still at 91,745 points, and he was overtaken by Chen Yufei, who won the runner-up in the All England Championship, with 91,956 points, dropping from No. 3 to No. 4 in the world. An Seying, who was sealed in the All England Championship, made a big supplement and scored 12,000 championship points. This week’s points changed from 97,153 points to 98,953 points, rising to No. 2 in the world. At present, she is only 102,713 points away from the world champion Akane Yamaguchi. A gap of 3760 points.
After the game, Xiao Dai also posted the news of his suspected “retirement” on social media, “Cherish every game in the future, and next year should be the last time I come to this game.” The post also attracted people from all walks of life. Concern and shock.
