After the defeat in the semifinals against Viktor Axelsen, Kevin Cordón will play his last game in this Tokyo 2020 to win the bronze medal. The Guatemalan athlete will compete against the Indonesian Anthony Ginting, a very tough rival who promises not to make it easy for the Guatemalan-born.
The Asian lost to Chinese Long Chen in the semifinal and has a record of four wins and one loss at these Olympics., the same as the Guatemalan. He left Gergely Krausz (Hungary), Sergey Sirant (Russia), Kanta Tsuneyama (Japan) and Anders Antonsen (Denmark) on the way.
Anthony Ginting is ranked number 5 in the Badminton Federation world rankings, although he has not been having a great 2021. The one born in Indonesia played 10 games in which he won 5 and lost the remaining. They are not good numbers for an athlete who is usually the protagonist in international competitions.
The Asian has several titles to his credit and he will try to regain the level he had in those tournaments to get the much prized bronze medal. In total he won the Asia Team Championships Hyderabad 2016, Alor Setar 2018 y Manila 2020. With the addition of the Southeast Asian Games of Singapore 2015 and Philippines 2019.
When will Kevin Cordón compete for the bronze medal?
They will meet tomorrow, Monday, August 2, at 5:00 AM (Guatemala time) on court 1 of Musashino Forest Plaza. We will have to get up early to see live the great possibility that Guatemala has of winning the second medal in its history. It will not be easy, but Cordón will have the support of 16 million chapines.
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