“Although the women’s double won the championship, the women’s double lost 2 points in the team competition, so compared with the overall strength of the Japanese team, we still lag behind, especially the second double,” Zhang Jun said frankly.
Xinhua News Agency, Jakarta, August 27 (reporter Lu Rui, Su Bin) the badminton items of the 18th Jakarta Asian Games entered the penultimate match day on the 27th. Guoyu Legion handed over the report card of 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, and successfully ended the Asian Games tour. Among them, men’s group won the championship bravely, women’s team lost the Japanese team to pick silver, Mixed Pair combination Zheng thinking/Huang Yaqiong, women’s double combination Chen Chenchen/Jia Yifan each won 1 gold, another pair of mixed pairs, Wang Xiaolu/Huang Dongping and man pair “Twin Towers”, Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen, contributed two bronze medals.
After the game, Zhang Jun, the leader of Guoyu, said in an interview that there was still a gap between the women’s double team and the Japanese team, but as long as the details were done well, each project still had strong competitiveness. “Whether it is singles or doubles, it is just a little difficult now. How to understand and solve problems is the most critical.”
“Although the women’s double won the championship, the women’s double lost 2 points in the team competition, so compared with the overall strength of the Japanese team, we still lag behind, especially the two pairs,” zhang Jun said frankly.
“Chen Chenchen/Jia Yifan won very hard today. The opponent played very well, but we were more tenacious than the opponent,” he continued. Zhang Jun believes that the Japanese team is better than the Chinese team in the ability of multi-shooting and cross-holding. In this respect, the Chinese women’s team still has room for improvement and progress.
When talking about the man pair results, Zhang Jun said that although Guoyu now has two pairs of the top four players in the world, the current situation of man Pair Badminton is that the strength of the top ten players in the world is almost the same, it is difficult to determine who wins or loses. This time, man pair, from the Thomas Cup in May to now, the games continued one after another, and the players were very tired in physical fitness, mentality and spirit.
“Liu Cheng/Zhang Nan and Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen’s performance in the single event is different from that in the group competition. The determination to win and the mental state to reach the last minute are not enough,” he said.
Zhang Jun also said that the mixed doubles played normally. “Wang Xiaolu/Huang Dongping should not lose in the semi-final. We lost to ourselves. In fact, it is impossible for every player to compete in the best competitive state and physical state. How to win when the state is not good is the strength that the best athletes need to possess.”
Asked how to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics two years later, Zhang Jun said that more young players were needed to come to the competition team. Create good conditions for young players, let them compete and impact the core leading player, and leading player will continue to improve and progress.
Just like the previous man pair combination Liu Xiaolong/Qiu Zihan, Chai Biao/Hongwei, it is because they constantly impact Cai Yi/Fu Haifeng, only in this way can the ‘fengyun’ combination win the 2012 London Olympics, “Zhang Jun said.
The Japanese badminton leader Park Zhufeng also told the Chinese media after the game that China badminton team has always been a strong team and a strong enemy of the Japanese team. In today’s final, the women’s double teams of the two countries played very actively and presented a wonderful duel.
When talking about the overall performance of the Japanese women’s team in this Asian Games, Park Zhufeng said: “We have succeeded in winning the gold medal women’s team, but I originally expected at least one gold medal in a single game, but it turned out that only women’s pairs picked one silver and one copper, and women’s singles only got one copper. I’m a little disappointed.”