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Badminton Se-young Ahn advances to the Danish Open quarterfinals… Two women’s doubles teams advance to the quarterfinals

Badminton women’s singles Ahn Se-young

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Im Soon-hyun = Badminton women’s singles Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance) and women’s doubles Kim So-young (Incheon International Airport)-Gong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank), Lee So-hee-Shin Seung-chan (Incheon International Airport), Denmark Open Badminton Championship 8 entered the river.

Se-young Ahn defeated Evgeniya Kosetskaya (Russia) 2-0 (21-9 21-11) in the women’s singles round of 16 at the World Badminton Federation (BWF) World Tour Super 1000 Denmark Open held in Odense, Denmark on the 21st (local time). was suppressed with

On the same day, Kim So-young and Gong Hee-yong also advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Fukushima Yuki and Higashino Arisa (Japan) 2-0 (21-12 21-12) in the women’s doubles round of 16 match.

In the women’s doubles, Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan, who participated together, met Nita Violina Marwa-Putri Saika (Indonesia) and won 2-1 (15-21 21-18 21-15).

Ahn Se-young will face India’s Fusala Sindhu on the night of the 22nd to advance to the semifinals. On the same day, Kim So-young and Gong Hee-yong will face Liu Xuan Xuan and Xia Yu Ting (China), and Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan will play Putita Supajirakul-Safsiri Taratanachai (Thailand) in the quarterfinals on the same day.

Mixed doubles Ko Seong-hyeon and Eom Hye-won (Gimcheon City Hall) lost to Tan Kian Meng-Lai Peijing (Malaysia) 2-1 (21-18 18-21 13-21) and stayed in the round of 16.

Ga-eun Kim (Samsung Life Insurance), who participated in the women’s singles event with Se-young Ahn, also lost to Kirsty Gilmore (Scotland) 2-1 (18-21 22-20 24-26) and failed to advance to the quarterfinals.

The badminton team, which did not participate in last year’s tournament due to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), is aiming to win the women’s singles and women’s doubles championships in this tournament, which it has participated in for the first time in two years.

Heo Kwang-hee (Samsung Life Insurance), who participated in the men’s singles, lost 1-2 to Tsuneiyama Kanta (Japan) in the round of 32 and failed to advance to the round of 16, and did not participate in the men’s doubles tournament.

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