As far as I understand, the National Individual Championships is an annual affair, unlike the National Games, a multi-sport event held once every four years and , therefore, much more prestigious. You just have to look at the lineups for both, it's obviously not of the same standing.Isn't this the National Championship cum National Games qualification tournament?
Sun Fei Xiang vs Lei Lanxi
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:4632476774236164?from=old_pc_videoshow
Feng Yanzhe won 2 silvers today
Hope he gets ZN as his MD partner, cc: CBA.
Feng needs his mentorship, ZN probably will retire in a year or two.I watched bits of ZN matches, not convinced, I don't think he can get back to his good form again.
As expected the IND Open held 11-16 May is postponed; if not, I believe the CHN contingent would probably withdraw in view of the IND Covid-19 situation spiraling out of control the last couple of weeks with no sign of abating.
As such, I'm afraid Shi Yuqi's quest to improve his ranking in the Race to Tokyo Standing and get a seeding to avoid meeting any of the top few seeds in the early rounds look somewhat uncertain, tricky, as he now has only one remaining tournament to play , the SIN Open in June, to be counted for qualification to the Tokyo OG.
I guess that's why Lu Guangzu is MS3 in CBA at the moment. Hope to see LGZ make a breakthrough in his career soon as he's already 24 years old. Besides, China needs another top MS to reinforce their strength as Chen Long at age 32 is in the tail end of his career.
Indeed, Sun Feixiang stunned Lu Guangzu, but in the final, he couldn't prevail against Lei Lanxi, whom, to me, was a surprise package as he narrowly beat Li Shifeng in a come-from-behind victory in the decider when two-matchpoints down in the semifinals.And certainly MAS Open (25-30 May).
He fails to clear Sun Feixiang who unables to overcome the underestimated Lei Lanxi in gold medal match.
He fails to clear Sun Feixiang who unables to overcome the underestimated Lei Lanxi in gold medal match.
According to world ranking LGZ is indeed CBA's 3rd ranked MS player, but players like LSF, WHY, LLX and SFX are not far behind. They have been training together and have sparred against one another, so they know each other's game quite well. Hence upsets among them are bound to take place. I must say that LGZ didn't perform as well as we expected of him. He even nearly lost to Dong Tian-yao in the round of 16, winning it with the scores of 18-21, 21-19 and 24-22. I have scoured the Chinese internet to look for this match to no avail. Guess I won't be able to find it since it was played on court 8.
Wow, Lei Lanxi trained by the grand old master, Tang Xianhu, who still has a thing or two to impart to anyone who's eager and smart enough to acquire at least some, if not all, of his knowledge and skills. As we know, Lin Dan is the greatest beneficiary and most illustrious disciple of The Thing (TXH's nickname).Saw the Lu Guangzu/Dong Tianyao match when it was telecast live, albeit with a strange camera angle. Dong Tianyao, young that he is, combined patches of good play with patches of errors; but, when he was playing well I was glad to see that he could match Lu Guangzu. In the end, he lost on a close line call.
Also, read a comment on a Chinese forum that Lei Lanxi is from Hubei, but has been trained in Dongguan, Guangdong by Tang Xianhu.
A couple of years ago I heard Tang was helping the Macau team. Probably Covid affected that.Also, read a comment on a Chinese forum that Lei Lanxi is from Hubei, but has been trained in Dongguan, Guangdong by Tang Xianhu.
According to world ranking LGZ is indeed CBA's 3rd ranked MS player, but players like LSF, WHY, LLX and SFX are not far behind. They have been training together and have sparred against one another, so they know each other's game quite well. Hence upsets among them are bound to take place. I must say that LGZ didn't perform as well as we expected of him. He even nearly lost to Dong Tian-yao in the round of 16, winning it with the scores of 18-21, 21-19 and 24-22. I have scoured the Chinese internet to look for this match to no avail. Guess I won't be able to find it since it was played on court 8.
China's badminton coach on who will attend single's event in Tokyo
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The Chinese Badminton Association has not decided which players will go to attend competitions in the Tokyo Olympics. Xia Xuanze, singles coach of the national team.
Xia said Chen Long, Shi Yuqi, Chen Yufei, He Bingjiao and Wang Zhiyi are all qualified for the Olympics, but according to the rules of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), each association can only send two athletes to one event.
"I am satisfied with the intensity I saw in the matches of Chen Yufei and Wang Zhiyi. Men's singles athletes are still adjusting for certain reasons. Shi Yuqi was injured in 2019 and he returned to the field 98 days after surgery to earn Olympic seed ranking points. The epidemic gave him over a year to buffer. His priority now is to get back to the best form."
"Chen Long has made some good changes to his match tactics under the guidance of Li Mao and coach Chen Yu. He is still in the breaking-in process. Both of them need to make a change in the past year. I saw some signs in the domestic events."
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-...ingle-s-event-in-Tokyo-112owHuBU4g/index.html
So CBA is still undecided to pick He BJ or Wang ZY to accompany Chen Yufei?
Except for WD where at this stage, there's only one CHN pair left, Chen QC/Jia YF, who has to win tomorrow's semifinal against the KOR Kim/Kong for a place in the final. That's because of the bronze medal match play-off between the two losing semifinalists.Correct me if wrong but China has secured the chance to grab (at least) one medal in each category at the Tokyo 2020 games?