The most stable gold winning single event is undoubtedly mixed doubles. The second ranked IELTS group and the fourth ranked Yellow Duck group are the "double insurance" for China's mixed doubles gold medal, and the two meet early in the semi-finals. Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, who won the civil war, faced the host duo Watanabe Yongda and Higashino Yusha in the final. The IELTS duo won without a doubt with a score of 21-13 and 21-16. Last year, they hit the bottom and faced a round of challenges at the World Championships. The IELTS duo has been in great form this year, winning 35 consecutive victories and winning seven consecutive championships in various competitions. After 2018 and 2019, they have won the mixed doubles championship trophy at the World Championships for the third time.
Chen Chenchen/Jia Yifan, the world's number one women's doubles duo, have also topped the World Championships for the third time since 2017 and 2021. In the final, facing old South Korean opponents Kim Shao hee/Shin Seung chan, the "Fan Chen" duo did not take it lightly. After struggling to win the first game with a score of 22-20, they calmed down and won the second game with a score of 21-14. After the "Fan Chen" combination competition, they admitted that since winning the runner up at the Tokyo Olympics last year, Jia Yifan did not participate in high-intensity confrontation training due to injury, and it was an accident that they won the previous World Championships. This year, their mentality has changed. "The sense of honor has become stronger," Jia Yifan said. "The pressure this time is greater than before." Fortunately, the two 25-year-old girls turned pressure into motivation and successfully defended their titles.
In terms of women's and men's singles, the difficulty of competing for gold is much greater. Although China's "first sister" Chen Yufei has top-notch abilities, she lost to the host country's top tier player Qian Yamaguchi in the final with a score of 12-21, 21-10, and 14-21. Sai Yamaguchi currently ranks first in the world and was the champion of the women's singles at the previous World Championships. She also has a home court advantage when playing at home. 24-year-old Chen Yufei has been eliminated from the semi-finals of the previous two World Championships. This time, she not only achieved her personal best result in the tournament, but also performed exceptionally well in the semi-finals by defeating her old opponent Dai Ziying, just like a replay of the final of the Tokyo Olympics. Chen Yufei has continuously demonstrated a mature mentality and technical tactics in the competition, proving that she has world-class strength. Among the other Chinese female candidates, Han Yue made it to the quarterfinals, while He Bingjiao and Wang Zhiyi both made it to the top sixteen.
The national badminton men's singles team took the lead in ending their journey to this World Championships on the 27th. After Lu Guangzu stopped in the second round and Shi Yuqi missed the quarterfinals, Zhao Junpeng, ranked 23rd in the world, made it to the semifinals alone. But in the semi-finals held on the 27th, Zhao Junpeng lost two consecutive games to 21-year-old Thai genius Kunlawut. This bronze medal has also become a fig leaf for the Chinese badminton men's team in this competition. No one is qualified to participate in the men's doubles, and there is a lack of top players in the men's singles. The difficulty for the Chinese badminton men's team to win a comeback at the Paris Olympics is not small.
