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[Tilu News]The BWF World Tour Finals (year-end tournament) was held on Sunday (17th) at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium on the final day. The 29-year-old Taiwanese badminton queen Tai Tzu Ying once again performed a comeback. After losing one game at a disadvantage, he won two games in a row and defeated the three-time world champion and Spanish star Carolina Marin 2:1, sealing the fourth place in his career. As for the world’s “big brother” Viktor Axelsen, he swept China’s Shi Yuqi 2:0, completing his third consecutive championship, surpassing Malaysian legend Lee Chong Wei and becoming the first five-time year-end champion in history.
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Tai Tzu Ying faced South Korea’s “No. 1 Sister” An Se Young in the world yesterday in the semi-finals. She overcame a 9-point deficit and came back to win. She entered the year-end finals for the seventh time. Today’s decisive battle against Ma Lian. Both sides have won the previous 22 times. In the 11th game, these old rivals were also inseparable. “Xiao Dai” was not in the state in the first game and made too many mistakes. He fell behind 6:11 in the half game. After the technical timeout, he was still passive. Ma Lian took advantage of the momentum to open up the score to 21. : 12 grabbed the first game.
Tai Tzu Ying fell behind 1:4 in the early stages of the second game, and then took advantage of Ma Lian’s increased mistakes to regain the lost ground. After successfully equalizing the score, he once led 6:5. Afterwards, the situation became stalemate, and the two tied many times. Before Ma Lian’s technical timeout Achieved an 11:9 lead. However, “Xiao Dai” used changing tactics to mobilize Ma Lian in the second half of the game, scoring 6 points in a row to regain the momentum at 15:11, and evened 1:1 at 21:14.
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In the decisive game, the two sides went back and forth, and the score was always tight. Tai Tzu Ying hit a wave of 7:3 at 4:7, and entered the technical timeout with 11:10. After changing sides, Dai Ziying continued to suppress Ma Lian, winning 6 points in a row to establish an advantage at 12:12, and finally won at 21:18. She won the championship for the fourth time after 2014, 2016 and 2020. Tied with the famous Chinese player Li Lingwei for the second most games in the history, and the first after 36 years, the legendary Indonesian player Wang Lianxiang leads the pack with 6 championships.
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(Picture: Badminton Photo)
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In the men’s singles, although Axelsen suffered an upset loss to Shi Yuqi 0:2 in the first game of the group stage, “Brother No. 1” did not give his opponent another chance in this battle. He struggled with Shi Yuqi in the first half of the game, but failed to win at 9:10. He scored 9 points to lead 18:10 in one fell swoop, and successfully took the lead at 21:11. The situation in the second game was similar. Axelsen, who was “determined to come back”, played a wave of 6:0 at 8:8 to open the score. Shi Yuqi could only take a beating due to lack of physical strength. As a result, “Yi Ge” won another victory with 21:12. Not only did he avenge the group stage, but he also tied Malaysian Datuk Lee Chong Wei’s record of three consecutive championships, and also surpassed Lee Chong Wei’s 4 Championship achievement, becoming the first player to win the men’s singles championship five times at the end of the year.
Seo Seung Jae (left)/Kang Min Hyuk (right) (Picture: Badminton Photo)
Seo Seung Jae (left)/Kang Min Hyuk (right) (Picture: Badminton Photo)
In the other three doubles events, the newly minted men’s doubles world champion pair Seo Seung Jae/Kang Min Hyuk defeated China’s world number one Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang in straight games 21:17, 22:20, repaying the top 4 of the Indian Super 750 in January this year. The defeat was also the first time in nine years for South Korea’s men’s doubles to win the year-end championship. Chinese women’s doubles Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan continued to activate the invincible mode, easily defeating South Korea’s Baek Ha Na/Lee So Hee at 21:16, 21:16, and defended the title strongly. It was also the fourth time after 2016, 2019, and 2022 that Chen Qingchen won the title. She also further refreshed her record as the player with the most championships in the year-end competition. She won a total of 6 championships (4 women’s doubles, 2 mixed doubles).
In the Mixed Doubles, the “Chinese Civil War” broke out in the final. The world’s number one Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong defeated their teammates Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping at 21:11, 21:18 to complete the defense of the title. At the same time, they tied the record set by the Danish pair Joachim Fischer Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen. triple crown record.
Chen Qingchen (front)/Jia Yifan (back) (Photo: Badminton Photo)
The Chinese team won the mixed doubles gold and silver medals. (Picture: Badminton Photo)
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[Badminton World Federation Year-End Championship]Tai Tzu Ying won the title of second player in history for four times, Axelsen achieved five crowns and made history」
2023-12-17 13:21:02
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