Lin Dan chalks up 15-match unbeaten run in Chinese League
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BEIJING: The Chinese Badminton Super League concluded last
Sunday with several highlights and great promises.
The star player, Lin Dan, chalked up a 15-match unbeaten record, including wins over Bao Chunlai (pic) and Chen Long in the men’s singles, to help Bayi Chivas Sofa finish among the top four.
He dropped only four games in the
league, which had a format of competition similar to the Sudirman Cup
with a tie comprising five matches – men’s singles and doubles, women’s
singles and doubles and the mixed doubles.
His team-mate, Jiang Yanjiao, who was the China Open winner in 2008 and 2009, won 16 matches against a defeat. But Yanjiao will not get to carry her impressive run into the world championships in Paris from Aug 23-29 as she had been dropped from China’s list of four women’s singles players.
In the final, Tsingtao Beer beat Hunan Kawasaki 3-1 to seal the overall tie 2-1 and Shanghai Ziweike remained winless when they lost to Hubei SOTX 2-3 in the relegation tie.
World No.1 Wang Yihan, whose defeat in the first singles match in the Uber Cup final in May led to the unprecedented 1-3 defeat by South Korea, continued her slump in the league. She was beaten by second stringers and won only five of 13 matches.
However, the league saw some positive signs for China’s badminton prospects as provincial and younger players took the shine off some of the more established campaigners.
The league, which was revived this year after a few decades, commenced in late May and this had clashed with Badminton World Federation (BWF) tournaments. And their absence from tournaments, including the Opens in Singapore and Indonesia, saw the top Chinese players slipping down the world rankings.
The star player, Lin Dan, chalked up a 15-match unbeaten record, including wins over Bao Chunlai (pic) and Chen Long in the men’s singles, to help Bayi Chivas Sofa finish among the top four.
His team-mate, Jiang Yanjiao, who was the China Open winner in 2008 and 2009, won 16 matches against a defeat. But Yanjiao will not get to carry her impressive run into the world championships in Paris from Aug 23-29 as she had been dropped from China’s list of four women’s singles players.
In the final, Tsingtao Beer beat Hunan Kawasaki 3-1 to seal the overall tie 2-1 and Shanghai Ziweike remained winless when they lost to Hubei SOTX 2-3 in the relegation tie.
World No.1 Wang Yihan, whose defeat in the first singles match in the Uber Cup final in May led to the unprecedented 1-3 defeat by South Korea, continued her slump in the league. She was beaten by second stringers and won only five of 13 matches.
However, the league saw some positive signs for China’s badminton prospects as provincial and younger players took the shine off some of the more established campaigners.
The league, which was revived this year after a few decades, commenced in late May and this had clashed with Badminton World Federation (BWF) tournaments. And their absence from tournaments, including the Opens in Singapore and Indonesia, saw the top Chinese players slipping down the world rankings.
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