Xinhua News Agency, Jakarta, August 28 (Su Bin, Tao Xinye, Lu Rui) “Amazing!” This is the word that Jia Yifan and Chen early morning blurted out after winning the badminton women’s double championship on the 27th. However, after sitting in the studio in front of the Jakarta Asian Games in Xinhua news agency one day later, Chen early morning still couldn’t hide his excitement, saying, “raise the national flag, playing the national anthem” is her proudest thing.
Asked how to adjust the mentality from the defeat of the team match, the two girls showed the open-minded and steady beyond their peers: “The defeat of the team match has certain influence on us, but the past is over, there are still individual items to be completed. The coach also helped us do psychological counseling, focusing on adjusting our mentality and not paying attention to negative public opinion.”
After the Rio Olympics, Guoyu tried different combinations of partners, but Jia Yifan and Chen early morning have always been the most stable pair. After the training of the Asian Youth competition and the world youth competition, the complementary character and technology make the two more tacit understanding.
This Asian Games is the first Asian Games after the two partners. They asked them to give their performance a few points. Jia Yifan smiled and said, “99 points, one point is because crying is too ugly.” Chen Chenchen said bluntly that although he won the championship, the match against India still reflected some problems, such as inflexible response and unstable mentality when the other side issued a new course.
In recent years, the strength of Japanese women’s double has increased greatly, and they have won the top three women’s double in this year’s Nanjing world championship. In the face of strong opponents, Fan Chen’s combination faces the gap but does not underestimate himself.
“They are three or four years older than us, more mature in skills, tactics and psychology, and more flexible and changeable when they encounter difficulties on the court. But I believe that youth is capital. We are not afraid of losing or losing.” Jia Yifan said.
As the most “reassuring” item of Guoyu, the advantages of Chinese women’s double have gradually shrunk in recent years, and the dominant position is no longer. In this regard, Fan Chen said: “We must do our best to continue our good results and face the impact of our opponents at the same time. This is the biggest difficulty at present, but we will not give up, step by step.”
After the Asian Games, the two refused to give themselves a holiday, but immediately went into the preparation for the Japanese Open held in Tokyo in September. “If it weren’t for recording today, we should do strength training and aerobic training in the athlete village.” Chen said.
“We must constantly enrich and strengthen ourselves.” Jia Yifan added, “it is boring to practice four times a day, but this is the normal state of athletes. If you come up with achievements, you have to pay something that ordinary people can’t pay.”
In the face of the emerging strong opponents, Fan Chen group said that “down-to-earth” is the biggest gain of this Asian Games, and they will continue to carry forward this spirit in other venues.