The current best men's doubles team was from Indonesia. They were Leo Christian and Anton Kusuma. That pair was the one who snatched the number 1 ranking from Wu Yishui and Zhao Xizhen.
Leo Christian was 25, while Anton Kusuma was 26, and they had better stamina than the Chinese duo who were already in their 30s.
Wu Yishui and Zhao Xizhen had been experiencing a continuous drop in the graphic of their performance, and that was why they decided to retire the next month.
That decision shocked the team management because they hadn't found the right successor for the former world number 1 in the men's doubles sector. Even so, the team management didn't have any option other than to let the duo retire next month.
The burden was on the young teams' shoulders now. The greater burden probably was on Lin Zhu and Ye Quan's shoulders because they had been known as the two best athletes in the men's singles team before they had been kicked out of the men's doubles team.
