YONEX All England Open 2024 | Zheng/Huang (CHN) [1] vs. Watanabe/Higashino (JPN) [2] | F

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Bing please welcome the players first up

the number one seeds from

China J C

way

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the former world champions Chang Shi

andang Shong in their fourth all England

final as a pair they are two time former

Champions back in

2019 and of course last year as

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well and let's hear it for their

opponents the number two SE s from

Japan Utah

wat Anda

P the three time former champions in

their fifth all England mixed doubles

final UT watab and Arisa

higashino her fifth Waring and Final in

their last seven appearances at this

event that is quite

remarkable won the title first of all in

2018 when they were ranked 48 in the

world and they've pretty much made this

tournament their own hello well this

will be a 20th meeting between these two

pairs and the previous 19 Shen Shi and

wangong have won 14 of them including

the final of the Asian Games

in in

China it's gold it's gold

yes on my left side what do you choose

who will receive Arisa will receive who

will hang Chong will Ser thank

you so the Chinese pair I think on the

toss of the

coin a chose ends and the Japanese pair

chose to

receive Chi way an explosive

player very fast around the court turned

27 last month B in the port city of

wing and that is in Shang Province on

the east coast of China they are in join

their 205th week in total as world

number ones now for one Yash young this

is actually her fifth final here at the

or England because she is a three-time

champion she won with her former partner

luk Kai back in

2017 she turned 30 last month and she

was also born in Xiang Province in

China well all of their matches as you

can see in two straight games only 25

minutes in the first round then Bo beat

Christiansen and Boer and then ferdinan

and

Raya and in the semifinal fanga and

wangong ping W ping the reigning Olympic

champion only needed 39 minutes for that

so to the Japanese pair and for utatan

this is his seventh all England Final in

six years because he won two men's

doubles titles with hero Yuki Endo the

26-year-old from

suami in the greater Tokyo region of

Japan they went down one place in the

world ranking this week to number three

but it's been one week as world number

On's from the 8th of November

2022 Arisa higashino is the older of the

two at 27 from from

sorachi

proect they won one title this year and

that was the first of the super 1,000

events the Malaysian Open they beat

their teammates in the first round and

then a pair from Hong Kong

quarterfinal a repeat of the Malaysian

Open final against Kim and Jong and the

semi final against the European games

gold medalist talin and Peak so they

like their opponent

have won all of their four previous

matches in two straight games Latif

Johari of Indonesia is our umpire for

this one and Gavin Smith from England

the service

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judge so it'll be a third time these two

have met on all England's finals

day they met in

2018 it was the Japanese pair that

won and then a year

later sh and wangong got

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revenge players

ready ladies and

gentlemen on my right UTA watan and

Arisa hio

Japan

and on my left JY way and hang chong

China huge support for the Chinese B

here in

Birmingham so the defending champions

from China she way

and final under way against the three

time former Champions what an are and

Hugo Ste it's a quite remarkable record

these two pairs five of the last six Mi

Double's title is going to one of these

two pairs and for what an AR seven final

at the all England in six years yeah

there's no many that have done better

than watab yeah in terms of

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finals oh that's a

beauty well if you've been with us

earlier in the week we've talked about

yar's ability to find gaps on his

opponent's side of the the court he has

great

awareness and tactical

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ability ah

well we've just mentioned the statistics

of what an r and Hino Ste it's

uh a special occasion today for this

Chinese pair because it's their 50th

career final as a

combination in only their 69th

tournament together they have an amazing

record hav lost a whole lot of um

matches together since they started

their career I think they are over 90%

in winning

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rate I mean the same as the finals here

I mean they were just so constant in

their

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performances fushino getting back well

from that flick

serve

four

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well the Japanese pair are setting a

record today they the first pair in the

mixed doubles in the Super Series and

World Tour era to contest five War

England

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finals is in six finals with two

different

partners first in five

finals in dat back to 2007 of course the

Inception of the super

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series five

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I think K way has started um slower than

I had

expected you saw him yesterday he was

all fired

up

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hey two M time shots in the last two

rallies fromy white

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yeah

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good

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R set

up and more variation in his attack than

we saw yesterday where he basically went

all out just content in

there hitting

five six smashes full

power

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consecutively

oh it's just

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wide

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s

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8 just looking at the CH screen in here

to see how what happened in that last

rally

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8 I was listening in when Jinx away and

P CH played Bo and christans or maybe we

called the match can't recall it this

four days ago yeah we did call it but uh

one of the things the Danes uh noticed

was that it was better to LIF to jinx

Wayne in his forehand side than his

backhand side they thought they had a

little bit better chances when was put

in the long forehand

Corner interesting to see if wat hio are

trying some of the same when they're

lifting well it was a little loose from

what an arate but how quick was rang

Yash young to come

forward and she put out away with

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Venom so 10 9

doesn't miss many of those Chi white no

but so far today he hasn't been at the

level we saw him

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yesterday to the mid game interval the

Japanese pair with a two point

Advantage

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119 in nine minutes

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more

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119

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play oh it's gone long it's about

time

well the Chinese coaches a little

concerned about the defensive play of

Chen Chi and

wangong feel they need to communicate

better on who's taking

what it's landed

in and then a blink of an eye for

defending Champions a back

level young mink on left as we looked at

them and head coach J

Jun oh what a brilliant serve from

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R 12

11 I I

just thank

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you

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oh that was a great deception isn't it

lovely I told you he could find the gaps

in opponent's side of the

quarter

look at the speed forward once again

from

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wangong she's been dominant at the net P

Chun

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yeah they're on a real rooll now with

their attacking plate last year's

champions

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interval

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was to get out of the way

there away according to the linesman but

and hi are challenging I think they're

also advocating that he touched

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it

just

one

remaining 17

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12 well the coach may have said to

coordinate your defense but quite

frankly ever since the mid game

end CH she way in one year have attacked

hasn't been necessary

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great defense from

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he yeah it came off the frame of one

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racket what a fantastic atmosphere we

have here at the utility

Arena thank

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you she was trying to help but Jinx away

was right behind

her long same

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time

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yeah

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oh that's a huge Miss by changy

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way coaches they've never seen anything

like

it

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wow

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hey wasn't going to miss two in a

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row

194

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stay his side I think oh no it went over

it went over that was the only way he

could win it because had it gone over

without touching it would have gone

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White

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get the point

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15 five pain Point opportunities

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16 brilliant opening game to last year's

Champions CH way and

wongar confirming that score line of

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216 from two points a drift at the mid

game

interval really is a remarkable turn

around in

fortune

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for

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feel

coming

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20 seconds 20

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seconds second

game

LEL

so the Umpire calls to the start of the

second game my goodness me the way that

cheni way andash young closed out that

opening game was very very impressive

lots of attacking play and not

altogether surprising that Yang Ming the

Chinese mix doubl coach was asking his

players for more of that attacking

play here in this second

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game

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wide do expect the Japanese pair to

change their tactics a little bit steeve

I think they need to uh try and control

the game more try to get on the attack

try to get Wanga Chong away from the

front

Court

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Tak over one

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two

had a fette with his backhand smash

there what an

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ARB

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broken strings in the record of changy

weighta

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32 we seen on many occasions that the

key to challenging H Chong and J way is

to get one that's a good serve exactly

to get her away from the

net and then within the

rallies play the shuttle below the tape

on the Chinese

side if you can do that then there's a

chance otherwise it looks really really

dangerous from a Japanese perspective if

they're forced to rely on their defense

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four

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three

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Yong in that rally was

outstanding

53 that little block the change of pace

and she made the winner as

well should been forced to the back of

the court early her

on super strong she was actually moving

in the wrong direction before she

changed and got back and played the

winner absolutely

amazing what a backhand

defense

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63 well six different Chinese pairs have

won nine of the 16 mixed doubles

Titles since the Inception of the Super

Series and World Tour here at the all

England so Chinese plays have been

fairly

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dominant it's a good

smash

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four sitting next to Jeremy gang I think

that's what anab former men's doubles

partner hero yendo wasn't it

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yeah

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this is quickly slipping away from and

hio they're just not able to get on the

attack enough are they no

no and the attacking play of the Chinese

pair is so

devastating

clever a wonderful change of pace from

chy way reverse slice to the middle of

the

Courts

much much more variation on his attack

today than

yesterday J

away yeah pies are happy got be careful

there J Jun I think he's got a right

good quite good right hand young Ming

get in the way be knocked out Young Jun

well part to that last

rally CH Fair 17 the previous eight

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points and it's it's those periods that

the opponents doesn't recover from we

saw it in the first game at 911 they

made the

move it's a good flick serve from

Kino

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wow she's

been simple amazing look at

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that

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make

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it good

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wow

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good got to be the longest of the match

so

far

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Brilliance beautiful

touch

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yeah

unbelievable absolutely proud of this

and the final shot from Utah

wanabi the beautiful backhand block

across court for the outright

winner what a rally

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shots that is utterly

amazing watch this final block gets the

neck

caught raises both arms Aloft in

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Celebration

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wow amazing mix doubles

again totally sing defense

from fourpoint Advantage 117 they lead

in the second game having already won

the first last year's Champions J

away Jonathan

Christie having the photograph taken

that's the Ambassador for Indonesia

based in London I

believe and look the Indonesian men's

doubles

pair are busy warming up as well far

court is the Malaysians for our last

match of the day the men's

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doubles

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11 well it hasn't been a Japan's day so

far the women's doubles pair from Japan

lost the women's doubles final Yamaguchi

lost in the final of the women's

singles this Japanese pair are

struggling at the moment to live with

the sheer

pace of their opponents from

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China

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a call on Mara

hio what happened if she touched the net

she must have

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done oh no it was a double hit double

hit good spot by the

Umpa

well Chen and

Wong by their own very high standards

have not had a good start to

2024 only one final prior to this all

Inland final they won the Indonesia

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Masters

oh I think he should have left that one

he that but right now steam they may not

have had the best of starts to the year

but we're seeing the brilliant best at

the

moment

so full of admiration of the way that

hanga Chong played throughout the match

the way that jinu way has come

back uh started out slow but really

raised his

game

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but if someone could make a compilation

of B Chong's defense throughout this uh

especially this second game here just

been

outstanding

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oh that's lovely

defense and the awareness too to know

where the Gap

was look at that such incredible

technique

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Serv

shorts

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169

yeah clearly short of that front service

line

she had a couple of swings at that did

ala

higashino

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and still couldn't get it

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over three points away from their third

all England title as a pair

the Chinese coaching bench appear to be

celebrating p m already yeah but they

they've been um cheering their players

on they felt perhaps that they they

needed a little bit extra from the

coaching chair instead of this calm

collectedness I think especially jenes

way

good CH

yeah needed

to most likely too

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late

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Match Point

opportunities for Chang

and match point

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one match point save but surely just

delaying the

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inevitable and jam she Way shows his

delight at a third all England mix

Double's

title two

consecutive for the Chinese

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