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Guoyu beat Japan to win the 10th Thomas Cup

Guoyu beat Japan to win the 10th Thomas Cup

4hw.com.cn: with Guoyu's young generals scoring three points for China's team, Lin Dan, as the finale, doesn't need to play. This is the 20th World Championship of super Dan's career.

Thomas Cup is the highest level men's badminton team game in the world. In the first two competitions, China, the traditional strong team, suffered two disastrous defeats, first to Japan, and then to South Korea at home. This time, after six years of returning to the soup cup final, Guoyu did not let people down.

On the afternoon of May 27, in the final of 2018 Thomas Cup Men's team, China team won three games in a row, Liu Cheng / Zhang Nan, Shi Yuqi, Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen, and beat Japan team 3-1 in a 3-1 reversal. After six years, China team reached the top again.

This is the 10th time that the Chinese team won the Thomas Cup, and Lin Dan won the 20th World Championship in his sports career.

At the same time, Guo Yu's young generals Shi Yuqi, Li Junhui, Liu Yuchen, Qiao bin, Zheng Siwei and Wang Yilv have entered the ranks of world champions, and the training effect of new players is obvious.

By contrast, Guoyu women's team has created the worst record in 34 years. On the evening of May 25, defending champion China played host Thailand in the semi-final of the Uber Cup. After six and a half hours of hard fighting, the Chinese team lost all three singles, and finally lost to Thailand 2-3 in total score, unable to advance to the finals.

Before this competition, Guoyu women's team has maintained a strong record -- since its first competition in 1984, the Chinese team has all reached the final in the past 17 Uber Cup. Now, with Wang Yihan, Wang Shixian, Zhao Yunlei, Tian Qing and other women retiring one after another, the record of the Chinese team has been terminated.

On the contrary, under the leadership of world singles champion Aoyuan hope, world second Yamaguchi and doubles Olympic champion combination Takahashi Lihua / Matsumoto mizoji, the Japanese women's team has outstanding strength. In the final of the Uber Cup, the Japanese women's team took only three hours to easily beat Thailand 3-0, and won the Uber Cup again 37 years later.

In the final of the men's team, the Chinese team sent Chen long, Liu Cheng / Zhang Nan, Shi Yuqi, Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen in the first singles, and Lin Dan in the third singles.

For today's final, Japanese coach Park Zhu Feng said before the game that the women's team will bring more confidence to the Japanese men's team after winning the championship. But he cautiously believes that the most important thing for Japan is to win the first point against Chen long. "As long as they get the first point, Japan will have a chance to beat China, and the chance for Kendo Toyoda to win is 50%. '

The Japanese team did it, and the single man was in good condition. In the first singles competition, Chen Long was in a very slow state and lost the first game by 9-21. In the second round, the two sides fought fiercely, but Japan always took the lead. Although Chen Long saved three match points in a row at the last moment, he still lost the game 18-21.

With Chen Long losing two games in a row, the Chinese team was disadvantageous and the total score was 0-1 behind Japan. For the reason why the first inning was a big difference, Chen Long said, "the first inning was downwind and didn't dare to control the backcourt, so the ball was mainly given in the first half, and the opponent caught the points very hard. '

This has been Chen Long's three consecutive soup cups losing points in key matches. In 2014, the Chinese team lost to Japan in the semi-finals, and Chen long lost to Tian Erxian as the first singles match. Two years ago, in the last eight games, he lost to sun wanhu in the No. 1 men's singles, and finally the whole team lost to South Korea. Now, the Rio Olympic men's singles champion has lost again in the team competition.

At the same time, Lin Dan won the 20th World Championship in his career, including two Olympic men's singles titles, five World Championships, six Thomas Cup Men's singles titles, five sudyman cup mixed team titles and two World Cup Men's singles titles.