[Tilu News]The Hong Kong Badminton Team did not slow down during the Lunar New Year. The team went to Malaysia on the second day of the Lunar New Year to prepare for the Asian Badminton Team Championship starting today (13th).港隊今日於男子A組首仗面對中國，雖有李卓耀及伍家朗領軍，仍似場數0：5不敵，明日將續與印度交鋒，爭取小組出線，女隊亦將亮相鬥Kazakhstan.
The Asian Badminton Team Badminton Championships was established in 2016. It is an international badminton team event organized by the Asian Badminton Federation. It is held every two years and is competed by badminton teams from various Asian countries. This year’s even-numbered years will be men’s and women’s team competitions. The 15 participating countries or regions will be divided into 4 groups. The top 2 in each group will advance to the top 8. The top 4 teams will qualify for the Thomas Cup and Uber Cup in May. . In odd years, a mixed team competition will be held, which will also become the Sudirman Cup qualifier for the mixed team competition.
Lee Cheuk-yao (Photo: TiLu Database)
Lee Cheuk-yao (Photo: TiLu Database)
The Hong Kong team sent 9 men and 10 women to participate in the Asian team competition this year. However, because the competition is divided into men’s and women’s groups, the Hong Kong team’s two mixed doubles pairs Tang Chun Man/Tse Ying Suet and Li Jinxi/Ng Zhirou did not participate in the competition. The Hong Kong team played in the men’s group A against China. In the first men’s singles match, Lee Cheuk-yiu, the “big brother of the Hong Kong team” who reached the final of the Super 750 Indian Open at the beginning of the year, played against China’s Weng Hongyang. However, Lee Cheuk-yao’s style was not smooth this time and he lost in two straight games 15:21 and 17:21.
Ng Ka Long (Photo: Ti Road Database)
Ng Ka Long (Photo: Ti Road Database)
In the second game, the Hong Kong team sent Lu Junwei/Yang Shengcai to play in the men’s doubles against China’s Chen Boyang/Liu Yi. In just 27 minutes, they were defeated by their opponents ranked 27th in the world 14:21, 12:21. In the third game of the Hong Kong team, Ng Ka Long played in the men’s singles and faced off against Chinese player Lei Lanxi, ranked 35th in the world. The two were evenly matched at the beginning of the first game at 9:9. Later, although Ng Ka Long fell behind for a while, he quickly overtook 16:13 and won the first game 21:13. However, in the second game, his opponent lost 16:13. 21 pulled a game back, and Ng Ka Long was at a disadvantage in the decisive game, and eventually lost 15:21. China won 3 consecutive games to establish the victory. However, due to the need to calculate subdivisions in the group stage, the remaining men’s doubles and men’s singles events continued.
In the end, in the fourth game, the Hong Kong team’s Zou Xuanlang/Hong Kuijun lost to the Chinese team Xie Haonan/Zeng Weihan 13:21, 8:21. In the last game, the Hong Kong team’s men’s singles rookie Chen Yanze met China’s recent Universiade men’s singles gold medal Zhengxing lost the first game of the group with 11:21 and 16:21, and the total number of games was 0:5.
Tomorrow, the Hong Kong men’s team will continue to compete head-on with India, another team in the same group. On the same day, the Hong Kong team will also make its debut in the women’s team, playing in the first game of the Women’s Group X against Kazakhstan.
Text: Jia Zhaozhi
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in”[Badminton]Lee Cheuk-yao and Ng Ka-lang led the Asian team competition group first match and lost to China」
2024-02-13 09:11:12
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