On December 19, the 2021 Badminton World Championships began the final competition in Huelva, Spain. In the men's singles final of the final battle, the biggest dark horse of the tournament, Luo Jianyou from Singapore, challenged the 12th seed and former world No. 1 Indian great Srikanth. The final state of the hot Luo Jianyou, excellent performance, whether it is behind or leading the case, through delicate technology to play Srikanth caught off guard, and finally 21-15, 22-20, the next two games, a big score 2-0 win, the harvest of the gold World championship men's singles champion. It was also the first world champion in Singapore's badminton history. Luo Jianyou will rise from the current 22nd to 15th in the world rankings next week with his excellent performance at the World Championships.

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For Luo Jianyou, Chinese fans first knew him at the Thailand Masters in 2019, where he defeated 5 national featherers, including Lin Dan, and finally won the championship. And now he as the new men's singles world No. 1, Tokyo Olympic Games champion Denmark's training partner in Dubai training camp, Luo Jianyou in the recent series of matches, not only won the German sea Dew Open championship, but also in the top event of the Indonesian Open to defeat Momoda Kendou into the final, and finally lost to An Sailong, won the runner-up.
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And after coming to the World Championships, Luo Jianyou continued to break out of the road, the first round overturned An Cylon, creating the biggest surprise of this event. He went on to win a series of big games against many seeded players, including upsetting third-seeded Antonsen of Denmark in two sets in the semifinals.
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And India's elder brother Srikanth, once reached the top of the men's singles world number one, but in recent years there have been ups and downs, but soon recovered and re-entered the ranks of the top players. In this world Championship, Srikanth on the way to the promotion of the consecutive victory over two national badminton players, including Li Shifeng and Lu Guangzu, in the semifinals, he met with only 20 years old junior brother Rakashya, locked a final seat, and finally he defeated Rakashya after three sets of hard battle, the first time into the world Championship final. Srikanth has played Luo Jianyou once before, in the mixed team event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, when Srikanth won two sets in a row.
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In the first game of the two, Srikanth took the lead in entering the state, and once scored 8 consecutive points through his changeable playing style, making a 9-3 lead. After that, Luo Jianyou began to gradually adapt to Srikanth's playing style, continuously chasing points, and after 11 ties, 12 ties, 13 ties, scored 4 points in a row, and achieved a 17-13 comeback. The successful Luo Jianyou frequently used his movements in front of the net to make Srikanth tired, and finally won the first game 21-15 to take a 1-0 lead.
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The second game, Luo Jianyou is in the passive side, in the 4-3 leading case, by Srikanth consecutive points to achieve the reverse, after once the score was opened to 9-6, Luo Jianyou behind. However, at the critical moment, Luo Jianyou repeated the situation of the first game, continuous offensive mobilization, continuous scoring, a wave of 6-0, directly the score exceeded 12-9. However, Srikanth did not give up, and still tried to catch up on the points despite the fact that he was behind, and after scoring four points in a row, he came back to win 16-14. Luo Jianyou is calm and calm response, through the ball mobilization, once again staged a continuous scoring play, scored 4 points in a row, to 20-18 the first to obtain match points! Srikanth withstood the pressure at the crucial moment, chased two match points in a row, levelled to 20, but then because of a mistake, Luo Jianyou scored two points in a row, 22-20 to lock the victory! So far, Luo Jianyou with a big score 2-0 victory, won the championship! Made badminton history in Singapore.