At 8: 30am on December 3rd, the 8th badminton competition between teachers and students of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University was held as scheduled in the stormy playground. Twelve teams organized by the laboratory participated in the competition, and the competition was a team competition consisting of mixed doubles, men's doubles and women's doubles. Professor Zhou Xiaohai/Professor Zhou Xiang United finally defended their title and achieved three consecutive championships in this competition!
In the morning, the group round robin was held, and the teams struggled hard. The cheers of the audience, the hiss of the athletes and the applause of the players off the field filled the whole stormy arena. Zhou Xiaohai/Zhou Xiang United took the lead in qualifying with the first place in Group B. In the first stage of the knockout stage, the opponent was Professor Aiwen Lei, a group with extraordinary strength. After adjusting the lineup, Zhou Xiao Hai/Zhou Xiang United advanced to the semi-finals with a big score of 2: 0. In the semi-final, Professor Huang Wei Hua's team was faced with equal strength, and the competition was very fierce. In the men's doubles competition, Professor Zhou Xiaohai and Ding Cong tacitly partnered to win steadily and narrowly beat each other, and finally successfully advanced to the final. The final was held between Professor Zhou Xiaohai/Professor Zhou Xiang United and Professor Feng Yuqi/Professor Hu Bin United. The first mixed doubles match was tense and full of suspense. When both sides won one game, the score of the deciding game was staggered, and the cheers of the players and the audience came and went. In the end, Zhou Xiaohai/Professor Zhou Xiang United was better and won the first point of the group. The men's doubles competition is also very exciting. With its absolute offensive ability and solid defensive skills, it won the second point of the team, which means that Zhou Xiaohai/Zhou Xiang United once again won the badminton championship between teachers and students!
After the competition, the participating teachers and students said that the competition was conducive to teachers and students to relax and exercise in their busy scientific research life, and promoted the friendship between teachers and students, within the laboratory and between laboratories. The unity, cooperation and hard work presented during the competition also left a good memory for everyone. (Correspondent: Xu Jinglei)