The winners of the opening matches of the 2024 Thomas and Uber Cups have been announced

At 8.30am Beijing time today, the final of the 2024 Total Energy Toms Cup and Uber Cup, also known as the Chengdu 2024 Toms Cup, kicked off in Chengdu, China.

In the next 9 days, 32 teams (men's teams and women's teams, 16 teams each) from 20 countries and regions around the world will gather in Chengdu to jointly showcase the wonderful competition of world badminton.

In the opening match of the Uber Cup this morning, the Chinese badminton team beat the Singapore badminton team 5-0 to get off to a good start.

A total of four matches were played in the opening match, with China taking on Singapore in Group A of the Uber Cup, Japan taking on Uganda in Group C, Malaysia taking on Hong Kong, China in Group D of the Thomas Cup, and South Korea taking on Canada in Group A.

As the highest level badminton event before the Olympic Games, each team sent the strongest lineup and launched a fierce competition in Chengdu.

In the Uber Cup competition, the performance of the Chinese team is particularly eye-catching.

In the first singles match, He Bingjiao beat Yang Jiamin 2-0 to score the first point for China.

In the subsequent women's doubles, women's singles and doubles matches, the Chinese team also won consecutively, and finally beat the opponent 5-0.

He Bingjiao, a member of the Chinese team, said in an interview that as the first singles player in the opening match, she was still adjusting her mentality when she entered the court, but in the end, she won the match with a clean performance and got the team off to a good start.

This afternoon, the Chinese men's team will take on Australia, while Denmark will take on Algeria, and these matches will also continue to excite the crowd.

The Chengdu 2024 Tang You Cup is the first world's top badminton tournament to be held in western China, and it is also another major sports event after the last Summer Universiade.

Adhering to the concept of "simple, safe and wonderful", this tournament will present a unique badminton event for the global audience.

According to the organizing committee, more than 50,000 tickets had been sold by the afternoon of April 26, with tickets for the 27th and 28th matches already sold out.

Fans in Chengdu bought tickets enthusiastically, accounting for more than half of the total.

The overall age of the audience showed a younger trend, of which the audience under 35 accounted for more than 54%.

In terms of gender ratio, the audience was 45 percent female and 55 percent male.