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[스포츠서울|김경무전문기자] The Korean women’s badminton team has been cruising for the first time in 11 years. They advanced to the quarterfinals with 3 wins in a row.
The third round of Group C of the 2021 BWF (World Badminton Federation) Uber Cup (World Women’s Team Badminton Championships) held at Ceres Arena in Aarhus, Denmark on the 13th (local time). The Korean team defeated Taiwan 4-1 as Se-Young Ahn (Samsung Life), Ga-Eun Kim (Samsung Life), Yu-Jin Shim (Incheon International Airport), So-Young Kim (Incheon International Airport)-Gong Hee-Yong (Jeonbuk Bank) won.
With this, Korea, which is aiming to regain the top of the tournament for the first time in 11 years, recorded all three wins and advanced to the quarterfinals as the top group in the group. Korea will compete with Denmark on the 14th to advance to the quarterfinals. Korea had previously defeated Tahiti and Egypt 5-0 in the first and second games, respectively.
The world’s strongest China will face Taiwan, Japan will face India, and Indonesia will face off against Thailand in the quarterfinals. It is fortunate that Korea took first place in the group and avoided China and Japan in the quarterfinals. Korea has won the Uber Cup only once, in 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
In Korea’s 1-3 singles event that day, Ahn Se-young, who made the first sortie for this tournament, defeated Pai Wipo 2-0 (21-8, 21-8), Kim Ga-eun defeated Hong Yi-ting 2-0 (21-16, 21-6), Shim Yu-jin defeated Wi Chun-hwi 2-0 (21-17, 21-14), respectively, to decide the match. Then, in doubles, Kim So-young and Gong Hee-yong defeated Chang Ching-hui and Li Chi-cheon 2-0 (21-8, 21-12). However, Chae Yoo-jeong (Incheon International Airport)-Shin Seung-chan (Incheon International Airport) lost 1-2 (21-17, 19-21, 21-23) to Syaching-Wi Chun-hwi.
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In the third round of Group B of the 2021 BWF Thomas Cup (World Men’s Team Badminton Championships) held at the same place on the same day, Korea lost 1-4 to Denmark and advanced to the quarterfinals with 2 wins, 1 loss and 2nd place in Group B. Korea had previously defeated Germany and France, but Denmark had a high wall.
In the Korean team, in the first singles on that day, Heo Kwang-hee (Samsung Life Insurance) lost 0-2 (12-21, 14-21) to world 2nd place Victor Axelsen, and Seo Seung-jae (Samsung Life Insurance) and Jin-yong (Dangjin Information High School 3) Kim in doubles. Astrup-Anders Scarub were defeated 0-2 (19-21, 8-21), and in the singles that followed, Hyuk-Jin Jeon (Yonex) lost to Anders Antonsen 0-2 (15-21, 14-21), respectively, and collapsed. .
However, in doubles, Kang Min-hyeok (Samsung Life Insurance) and Kim Won-ho (Samsung Life Insurance) defeated Matthias Christiansen-Frederic Sogard 2-0 (21-19, 22-20), avoiding a loss. In the final singles, Chon Yeop (Seongnam City Hall) lost to Rasmus Kemke 0-2 (9-21, 20-22). [email protected]
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