Original title: Thomas Cup, Uber Cup draw results released, the Chinese team hit the double crown
Chinanews.com client, August 18th. Beijing time on the 18th, the world‘s top team tournament Thomas Cup (men’s team) and Uber Cup (women’s team) group draw results were released, the Chinese men’s team and India, the Netherlands, Tahiti is in the same group, and the Chinese women’s team’s group match opponents are Denmark, Malaysia and Canada.
On September 15, 2020, the World Badminton Federation announced that in view of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the resulting withdrawal of many teams, it has decided to postpone the Thomas Cup and Uber Cup badminton team matches scheduled to be held in Aarhus, Denmark in October. The new competition date will be placed in 2021.
On December 21, 2020, the World Badminton Federation released the calendar for the first half of 2021. The Thomas Cup and Uber Cup, which were postponed due to the epidemic, are scheduled to be held in Denmark in mid-October 2021.
As a traditional strong team in the world badminton, the Chinese badminton team has created an extremely glorious history in these two events. Among them, in the Thomas Cup, the Chinese men’s team won the championship ten times and achieved five consecutive championships from 2004 to 2012. In the 2018 Thomas Cup final, the Chinese men’s team defeated Japan with a total score of 3-1.
In the history of the Uber Cup, the Chinese women’s team also has an unprecedented glorious record, winning 14 championships, and respectively creating six consecutive championships and five consecutive championships. However, in the last Uber Cup, the Chinese women’s team, which was in the alternation of old and new, regrettably stopped in the semi-finals. In this event, under the leadership of the new Olympic women’s singles champion Chen Yufei, the team will once again attack the championship.
The Uber Cup draw grouping situation is as follows:
Group A: Japan, Indonesia, Germany, France
Group B: Thailand, India, Spain, Scotland
Group C: South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Tahiti, Egypt
Group D: China, Denmark, Malaysia, Canada
The Thomas Cup lottery grouping situation is as follows:
Group A: Indonesia, Chinese Taipei, Algeria, Thailand
Group B: Denmark, South Korea, France, Germany
Group C: China, India, the Netherlands, Tahiti
Group D: Japan, Malaysia, Canada, England
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