China’s shuttlers continued their profitable methods in each males’s and ladies’s crew occasions on the Hangzhou Asian Games.
HANGZHOU, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — China’s males’s and ladies’s badminton groups each defeated their Japanese counterparts with the identical scoreline of 3-1 to achieve the crew finals on the Hangzhou Asian Games right here on Saturday.
Chen Yufei received her opener by defeating Aya Ohori 21-19, 12-21, 21-15 within the ladies’s crew semifinals, earlier than world No. 1 pair Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan misplaced to Chiharu Shida and Nami Matsuyama in a 97-minute thriller.
Chen Qingchen believed that “wanting to win too much” affected their mentality, which led to a scarcity of stability in dealing with key factors.
“It’s true that the team event is not the same as the singles, but our mentality is still not very good,” Chen Qingchen admitted.
World champions Chen Qingchen and Jia claimed the hard-fought first recreation 21-19, however their opponents bounced again to win the second and third units 21-9, 21-17.
He Bingjiao introduced China out of the scare as she edged previous Natsuki Nidaira in straight video games 21-12, 21-14, earlier than Zheng Yu and Zhang Shuxian sealed the ultimate spot for the host nation.
The consequence sees China avenge their defeat to Japan within the Jakarta 2018 Asiad ultimate.
China will subsequent face South Korea, who knocked out Thailand 3-1.
Also on Saturday, China’s males’s crew got here again to beat Japan 3-1, and can tackle India within the ultimate.
Shi Yuqi, China’s No. 1 males’s singles participant at two consecutive Asiads, was crushed by Kenta Nishimoto 10-21, 21-16, 21-14.
Shi, who has by no means received a match in Hangzhou, admitted that he has a “mental load” as he will get older.
Young duo Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang nosed out Yugo Kobayashi and Takuro Hoki 23-21, 25-23, adopted by Li Shifeng’s victory in opposition to Kanta Tsuneyama.
Although China’s second doubles pair Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi misplaced their opener 21-15 to Akira Koga and Taichi Saito, they withstood the stress to win the next two units and safe a ultimate berth.
The crew finals will happen on Sunday.