China is sending nine current top ten players, along with a quartet of teenagers to Tianjin for the East Asian Games, the badminton competition of which is set to kick off on October 8th. World #1 Zhao Yunlei will headline, along with world #2’s Ma Jin, Xu Chen, and Chen Long but 19-year-old Macau Open champion Sun Yu and current Asian Junior Championship runners-up Chen Qingchen / He Jiaxin are also on the squad, which is likely to leave very little gold for the relatively inexperienced Korean and Japanese teams, announced earlier in the week (see here).
The complete team (published yesterday on the news site Sina) is shown below:
Men | Women |
Chai Biao | Chen Qingchen |
Chen Long | Han Li |
Du Pengyu | He Jiaxin |
Gao Huan | Suo Di |
Hong Wei | Ou Dongni |
Liu Xiaolong | Sun Yu |
Qiu Zihan | Tang Yuanting |
Wang Zhengming | Wang Shixian |
Xu Chen | Zhao Yunlei |
Ma Jin |
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