The Olympic and World Badminton Champion Carolina Marin remains the only Spanish representative in the semifinals of the SaarLorLux Open from Germany after she has won their quarterfinal match, while Beatriz Corrales He has been fired after playing a more than worthy tournament.
Another game and another solvent victory for a Carolina Marin who goes ahead in the tournament with enormous authority and who counts his encounters as exhibitions. This time he had to suffer it in his French meats Xuefei Qi, number 38 in the world, and that presented a lot of battle, especially in a second set in which he managed to arrive with the score balanced in the final moments.
Marín easily won the first set, dominating from start to finish, however, despite the fact that in the second it all started in the same way, little by little the game became somewhat entangled and Qi came to equalize at 18, although finally Carolina She brought out her good work and her experience to close the match without any shock and sealing another victory that already puts her among the four best in the tournament.
In that penultimate round, the athlete from Huelva will face the twenty-seventh player in the world, the Scottish Kirsty Gilmour, one of the great aspirants of this painting.
Defeat of Bea Corrales
The other Spanish present in this German tournament has not been able to get into that semifinal round Beatriz Corrales, who was fired in these quarterfinals after having yielded to the local Ivonne Li, number 32 in the world, a classification much higher than that of the Spanish athlete, who has stood up to where she could.
Corrales had good moments, especially during a set and a half, but the first one has escaped him by a sigh (21-18) and in the second, after winning with authority throughout the first section, where he had wide differences to his favor of four and five points, ended up being overcome in the final stretch, in such a way that he ended up delivering the game definitively by 21-18 and 21-14, leaving Marín alone on this decisive weekend.
