China's badminton ace Chen Yufei will participate in the coming Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships in Tokyo, Japan between August 22 and 28. She has already arrived in the Japanese capital city and attended practice with her compatriots He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi and Han Yue.

The last time Chen played in Tokyo was at the Summer Olympic Games in 2021. She beat Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei 2-1 in the badminton women's singles final to win the gold for Team China for the first time in nine years.

Therefore, there are tremendous expectations for her to win the women's singles title at the World Championships this time. China's players have missed that honor for as long as 11 years since Wang Yihan won it in London in 2011.

Chen understands the pressure on her shoulders, but she wants to keep a clear head, which is integral to an athlete who wants to win.

"It's a problem. After I won the Olympic gold medal, people will have higher expectations on me. So I must adjust my mindset," she said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency. "It's wrong for me to assume that I must win the World Championships after winning the Olympics."

"I will be great if I win the title at the World Championships. But if I fail, that means I must have done a lot of things wrong and there are shortcomings for me to fix," Chen added. "I will work hard and refine all the details to put myself in the best form. But I must avoid falling into the wrong mindset."

As the No. 4 seeded player of the tournament, Chen, won't meet Tai until the semifinals. Before that, she will have to go through two Thai players, the No. 8 seed Ratchanok Intanon and No. 10 seed Pornpawee Chochuwong.

He, who is in the other half of the competitions, may face Spanish ace Carolina Marín and the No. 1 seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan on her way to the semifinals.