The sixth day of the World Championship of absolute badminton that takes place in the Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín in Huelva has served to confirm the Asian dominance (with Japan and China as the main banners) and close some exciting quarterfinals that have had of everything. The flyers who are in the semifinals have already won a medal in this World Cup.
Thus, on Saturday the leading role in this World Cup will be for the semifinals of the five modalities in contention, with the novelty that all matches will be played on a single court (At the beginning the Palace was divided into three fields; on Friday, two and already in the last two days it remains in one).
Tomorrow’s day, Saturday, will start at 10:00 am with the women’s individual duel between the great favorite for the title, the Taiwanese Tai Tzu Ying, and the Chinese Bing Jiao He (seeded number 8); This will be followed by the other semifinal with the presence of the Chinese Yi Man Zhang, and the seed number 2, the Japanese Akane Yamaguchi.
The third match of the day is reserved for the mixed doubles: The Chinese Ying Suet Tse and Chun Man Tang (5) will try to surprise the Thais Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai (2). Next, another doubles, in this case female, among the favorites for the title, the Chinese Quing Chen Chen and Fan de Jia Yi (1) and the Japanese Mayu Matsumoto and Wanaka Nagahara (2).
The last meeting of the morning will be entirely Japanese, as Kyohei Yamashita and Naru Shinoya meet Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino in the mixed doubles.
Subsequently, not before 16:00, The Koreans Soyeong Kim and Heeyong Kong (3) will play against their compatriots Sohee Lee and Seungchan Shin (3). The second men’s doubles measures the Japanese Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi (5) with the Malaysian Yew Sin Ong and Ee Yi Teo (9).
In the eighth match comes the first men’s semifinal between the Indians Lakshya Sen and Srikanth Kidambi (12), two of the revelations of this World Cup. Later, men’s doubles with the Chinese Ji Ting He and Quiang Tan against European rivals.
And as icing on the cake, in the last game of the day the Danish Anders Antonsen will play (seed number 3 and main candidate for the title after the absence of Momota and the defeat of his compatriot Axelsen) and Singaporean Kean Yew Loh.
In the most outstanding quarterfinal matches, Tai Tzu Ying, world No. 1 and Olympic runner-up, defeated India’s Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, 2019 world champion and double Olympic medalist, by 21-17 and 21-13 in 42 minutes. The Japanese Akane Yamaguchi, No. 2 of the tournament and world bronze in 2018, won, not without difficulties, the South Korean An Seyoung: 21-7 / 11-21 / 21-10.
In men, the Danish Antonsen, European champion and world runner-up, had to overcome the Malaysian Lee Zii Jian. He equaled the initial 21-12 against with an 8-21 and the Asian player retired injured when he trailed 11-1.
Singaporean Loh Kean Yew, who defeated Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in the first round, He continued his career in the World Cup with a firm step against the Indian Prannoy Haseena Sunil Kumar, who was given no options with a great display of play. He beat him 21-14 and 21-12 43 in minutes.
On the other side of the picture, India secured a finalist, that will come out of the duel between Lahshya Sen and Srikanth Kidambi.
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