How to break An Xiying's unsolvable mode, Zhang Jun: The national feather women's singles has a team advantage but takes time to grow

The Chinese badminton team currently has 3 women's singles players ranked in the top 10 in the world, but it is difficult to fight back in the face of South Korea's invincible world sister and Paris Olympic champion An Seying who has played all over the world this season.

As for how to fight against An Xiying, who has maintained an undefeated record this year, Zhang Jun said that the Chinese women's singles still needs time

At just 23 years old, she has continued to show impressive strength and has won all of her matches this season, including the 2025 Sudirman Cup World Badminton Mixed Team Championships, and has won the All England Badminton Super 1000, Malaysia Badminton Super 1000, India Badminton Super 750 and Orleans Badminton Super 300 Championships.

At present, the Chinese women's singles is still struggling with An Xiying. Wang Zhiyi, currently ranked No. 2 in the world, Han Yue, ranked No. 3 in the world, and Chen Yufei, a gold medallist and ranked No. 7 in the world at the Tokyo Olympics, have not been able to gain the upper hand in the matchup recently.

Zhang Jun, President of the Chinese Badminton Association at the 2025 Suzhou Cup (left)

Regarding how to crack An Xiying's overwhelming advantage, Zhang Jun said that the Chinese women's singles still needs time to grow. Zhang Jun said frankly: "An Xiying is a very rare genius, who began to compete in major competitions at a young age and has accumulated rich practical experience. In the past, our Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao had more wins and fewer losses against her, but through her own efforts and improvements, she improved to such a level and won the gold medal in the Paris Olympics. ”

However, Zhang Jun still emphasized the team advantage of the Chinese team: "I think the advantage of the Chinese team is the advantage of the team, and I will also bring this issue to Luo Yigang (the head coach of the women's singles of the Chinese national badminton team) to supervise Luo Dao." "At the same time, we also want to give us more time in the Chinese women's singles: we will train more young players, such as Xu Wenjing and Yin Yiqing."

In the final of the 2025 Sudirman Cup, the Chinese team won all other games except for Wang Zhiyi (pictured), who lost to An Xiying

Confidence will eventually defeat An Xiying. Regarding the current state of the main women's singles, Zhang Jun said: "We also expect Chen Yufei to gradually return to her peak form. As for Wang Zhiyi, the defeat in the final of the Su Cup is not a bad thing. We have an old saying: if you are not afraid of losing, you are afraid of losing confidence, and we are confident that we will eventually defeat An Xiying. ”