The badminton World Championships welcomed the final day of fierce competition, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong lost to the South Korean pair Seo Seung-jae/CAI Youding won the silver medal, Chen Chenchen/Jia Yifan achieved the world championships women's doubles for the fourth time on the top of the world.
The mixed doubles final begins today, with defending champion Chung Siwei/Hwang Yaqiong taking on South Korea's Seo Seung-jae/Chae Yoojeong.
Prior to this match, the two pairs had met nine times since 2018, and Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong had won all of them without exception, including the 2019 World Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
However, today, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong failed to continue to maintain the perfect record against the South Korean pair, and lost the title after three sets with a score of 1-2.
After the game began, both sides were more cautious, so the score showed an alternating trend of rising. After the interval, the Korean team hit a series of offensive surge to take the lead. "Ielts" made more offensive mistakes under pressure, and finally lost the first game 17-21.In the second game, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong scored seven consecutive points in the middle of the game, destroying the defense line of the Korean combination, and achieved a quick victory of 21-10.
In the decider, the South Korean combination adopted the strategy of grabbing the opening game, and immediately accelerated the pace of the game at the beginning of the game. The "IELTS" combination has not yet returned to God, it is already in a disadvantageous situation of 1-7. After that, Seo Seung-jae/CAI Yu-jeong played steadily and firmly grasped the good situation, and finally won 21-18, becoming the new mixed doubles champion of the World Championships. "Ielts" regret to miss the title defense, the silver medal.
In the post-match interview, Zheng Siwei first thanked the crowd and fans for their support, and said that he would immediately recover from the shadow of this defeat: "(one week before the China Open) we need to keep in good physical condition, learn from this match and do better next time."
When it comes to next year's Paris Olympics, Zheng said: "We will not think about MEDALS, but to do the process step by step." Finally, Huang Yaqiong also issued an invitation to the audience: "Welcome to Paris to cheer for us!"
Followed by the women's doubles final, against both the world women's doubles top chair Chen Chen Chen/Jia Yifan and the Indonesian pair Rahayu/Ramadanti who broke the table in this event. Although the latter tournament has eliminated the 2nd, 3rd and 5th seeds, today's match "Mortal" pair proved their strong strength as the world number one.
The two games were almost exactly the same one-sided, Chen Chen/Jia Yifan was impeccable at both ends of the attack and defense, and finally took 42 minutes to win the game 21-16 and 21-12.
This is the fourth time "Mortal Dust" won the women's doubles championship at the World Championships, and also achieved the feat of three consecutive world championships.
As the saying goes, a river is easy to attack but not easy to defend, so why can "mortals" dominate the world women's doubles for so long? Jia Yifan revealed: "I think we should always guard against the opponent's impact on us, on our research." So we have to work harder than ever to defend the accolades we have won."
The pair also talked about their prospects for next year's Olympic Games, with Chen joking that she has been looking ahead to Paris since Tokyo 2020, saying definitively: "I want to win the championship!"
Finally, regarding the "mother and daughter" relationship mentioned yesterday, Chen morning came to a big revelation: "Our relationship will not change, she (Jia Yifan) has always been a mother!" "
Women's singles final, South Korea's An Shuying showed the absolute strength of the crushing, 21-12 and 21-10 swept the former Olympic champion and world champion, Spain's Marin, the women's singles championship.
This is also An's eighth title of the year, and her record in 2023 is 58-5, a horrible 92.1 percent win rate.
In the men's singles final, Thailand's Kunravut lost first and then won, swept the decider, and won the men's singles championship with a 2-1 reverse victory over Naraoka Gong Da.
In the men's doubles final, the South Korean pair Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae withstood the pressure and bounced back after losing the first set, beating the host pair Astrup/Anders 2-1 to win the championship.
The Korean badminton team won three gold MEDALS at the World Championships, and Seo Seung-jae made history by winning two gold MEDALS in one day.
