2021-11-17
Li Junhui was born on May 10, 1995 inAnshan, Liaoning, originally a badminton singles player, after entering theLiaoning provincial team, began to change to the main men's doubles, and LiuYuchen from Beijing team formed the best team of national badminton "TwinTowers", and is the key player of Ruichang Biyuan Club, the team of the FlexProSuper team.
Seeing this, everyone can think of LiJunhui's landmark incident "take of his shirt". In the celebrationafter the match in the semifinals of the Thomas Cup, Li Junhui's name was knownby many netizens, thus becoming popular overnight. After the game, several fansshouted in the stands: "Li Junhui, take off your shirt." However, LiJunhui did not respond. When he came to the interview area, a reporter asked LiJunhui if he heard the shouts of the fans, to which Li Junhui smiled shyly andsaid: "This is the first ball, if it reaches the final, maybe I will give myshirt to them."
After Li Junhui "become famous"in the semifinals, and winning the championship in the soup cup final, he hugLiu Yuchen, Li Junhui, who was shouted "take off your shirt" by theaudience again, he then took off the shirt and threw it to the audience with aroar.
After the game, he revealed that this wasnot a pre-match plan, because last year's World Championships were out of thefirst round, so at the beginning of this year’s game he just hoped to make abreakthrough, fans and netizens repeatedly asked him to strip after winningduring the game, he felt that it was not the time, did not expect to really winthe championship, so he simply fulfilled his promise. However, he does not planto stage a "strip show" every time he wins a major event in thefuture. This is the first time that Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen won the WorldChampionships, and the fifth pair of Chinese teams to win the WorldChampionship Men's Doubles Championship, and the Chinese team achieved twoconsecutive World Championship men's doubles championships.
On the afternoon of November 12, 21, anexplosive news was released on Weibo, Li Junhui, one of the first men's doubles"twin towers" of Guoyu, announced his retirement from the nationalteam and officially retired. After this news was released, the entire badmintoncircle instantly gets unsettling.
According to Li Junhui, he has suffered many injuries since 2017,"acute injury of the meniscus of the right knee joint is almost 3 degrees,combined with bone contusion of the distal femur and proximal tibia", 18years of intense sports career, resulting in his habitual facet joint disordermisalignment of the thoracic spine, right first metatarsophalangeal jointsynovitis, etc. Although he has improved after various treatments, he decidedto retire because of the excessive intensity of training matches and the factthat his old injuries have not healed, so he has been unable to complete thenormal training plan of the national team.
As fans, we think LiJunhui's choice must have been carefully considered, and Li Junhui, as a memberof the Badminton Super League FlexPro, the family of FlexPro wish that he willcontinue to move forward in the field of badminton after retiring due toinjury.
