At the World Badminton Championships that ended last month, Han Yue defeated strong opponents and entered the semi-finals of women's singles, he lost to his previous confrontations, all of which were lost to his Japanese No. 1 Akane Yamaguchi. After a little rest, Han Yue appeared in the World Championships again this week and started the journey of the Super 500 China Hong Kong Open. On the second day of the main competition, Han Yue ushered in his women's singles debut, against Thai star Empopicha.
In this game, Han Yue used his best four-sided pull-up and hitting method to completely control Bornpicha on the court, and won in two straight games with a big score of 2-0, and advanced to the second round of the women's singles!
As the fastest growing female singles player in the national badminton team in recent seasons, Han Yue, born in 1999, has improved his ranking to third place with his outstanding performance in the World Championships. In the 40 games that have ended this season, he has won 29 games with a winning rate of 72.5%. The opponent of this game, Enpopicha, ranked only 36th, and is definitely not as good as Han Yue in terms of hard strength.
The two players are not unfamiliar with each other. They have had two head-on encounters in the past world competitions, both of which have achieved a record of 1 win and 1 loss. The last time they met was at the Malaysia Open at the beginning of this season. At that time, Empopicha fought hard for 51 minutes and defeated Han Yue 2-1 with a big score. Now they meet again. Whether Han Yue can complete his revenge with his home advantage has become the biggest highlight of this game.
As soon as the first game was launched, Born Pica played very aggressively, and the continuity of the control of the net was very strong. In addition, Han Yue could not keep up with his opponent's slow heat, which allowed Born Pica to take a 3-1 lead early. Fortunately, through the competition in the first few rounds, Han Yue gradually found his state and feeling, and quickly smoothed the score difference. Then the two entered a tug-of-war, and the lead alternately continued to tie the 10th. At the critical moment, Han Yue scored another point, and entered the mid-game break with a slight lead of 11-10.
After returning to the arena, the two players were still in a difficult position. Although Han Yue opened the score several times, they were tied by Bonn Picha. Fortunately, after the two fought fiercely until 17-17, Han Yue used his signature four-sided pull-and-hang-connecting attack style to suppress Bonn Picha at the critical moment, and achieved a good start with 21-18 as he wished.
Han Yue continued his hot touch in the second game, and he used tricky return points to get back the ball, which made Bonpica fall into a situation where he keeps running and saving the ball in the front and back courts. As long as the opponent's return is slightly less than right, Han Yue can seize the opportunity to complete the score. In his own rhythm, Han Yue quickly established a 6-2 advantage. Although Bonpica once raised the score difference to only 1 point, Han Yue quickly regained the initiative and ended the first half of the game 11-7.
Bonpica, who could no longer lose, began to speed up frantically after returning to the arena, and wanted to hit his own offensive threat. However, Han Yue, who held the lead, patiently consumed his opponent and then waited for an opportunity to kill a fatal blow. With his extremely reasonable playing style, Han Yue maintained the advantage to the end and locked the victory 21-12.
After successfully revenge of Bonpica, Han Yue broke into the top 16 of the women's singles. In the next round, Han Yue's opponent will be Canadian player Zhang Beiyu, who swept Lesana from Malaysia in the first round. He hopes that Han Yue can continue his hot state and strive to get the podium in this site!
