This Tuesday at the championship world of badminton performed in Huelva, Spain, the National Kevin Cordon He played the second round of the tournament and faced the Pole Michal Rogalski. Guatemala’s number 1 racket won it in two games, 14-21 and 19-21 were the results that gave him the pass to the second round.
#BadmintonGuate| The Guatemalan #KevinCordon managed to advance to the round of 16 of the # mundodebadmintonhuelva2021 .
The next opponent will be Lakshya Sen of India, who beat the Japanese #KentaNishimoto in three sets, 20-20, 15-21 and 21-18.#prideofbadminton pic.twitter.com/2vFjUHMQ9r
– Badminton Guatemala (@BadmintonGuate) December 14, 2021
The game
The Pole found himself contesting his 20th tournament of the year, while Kevin The twelfth, the first point in the game was taken by Zacapaneco and since then he has not lost the advantage, the one from Poland came to put it 1-1, but Kevin he scored two points in a row and that advantage was enough to no longer be reached. Game 1 ended 12-21 in favor of Cord.
During the second game, the initial advantage was Rogalski, Cordon he got to put down 3-1, but that’s when Kevin he chained three points in a row to turn it around and put the score 3-4 in his favor. From tracing the distance, the Pole drew once and got the game to 11-11, but again the national got down to work and took the lead again.
When the second game was about to end and give the pass to Kevin, Michal Rogalski he chained the best streak in the entire match. Cord He dominated 14-20 and being one point from advancing in the round, the Pole chained 5 points in a row to put the match 20-19, but our country’s number 1 racket did his thing and ended up winning 21-19.
This victory was consummated in 37 minutes and with his second game won in a row, that of the Union, Zacapa, advances to the round of 16 and will be measured at Lakshya Sen. from India.
The road in its fourth world cup
The Guatemalan won his first match in Huelva 2021 against the Dutch Joran Kweekel, the first game took him with a score of 18-21 despite starting it losing.
Olympic semifinalist Kevin Cordon from Guatemala ???????? is through to the next round! ????
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– BWF (@bwfmedia) December 12, 2021
During the second game, the Dutchman dominated the court, Cord got the first point, but then Kweekel He increased his pace and from point two he did not lose the advantage to end up winning 21-10.
Everything was defined in the last set, in a duel where no more than three consecutive points were achieved, the racket number 1 from Guatemala did not give way and at no time did it get below the scoreboard, thus taking the third game 16- twenty-one.
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