Xinhua News Agency, Manila, April 27 (Reporter Yang Yunqi) The 2022 Asian Badminton Championships will enter the second match day on the 27th. Men’s singles top-seeded Japanese star Kento Momota, Indian star Lakshya Sen, and women’s doubles No. 3 seed Kim So Young/Kong Hee Rong was upset and eliminated.
Momota Kento won the first game that day, and was defeated by Indonesian player Chico in a row. Momota lost 7:21 in the final game. Another upset in the men’s singles was created by Chinese team player Li Shifeng, who defeated fifth seed Lakshya Sen with 12:21, 21:10 and 21:19 to advance to the round of 16. Sen is currently ranked ninth in the men’s singles world, 55 places higher than Li Shifeng.
Among the remaining national feather men’s singles players, Weng Hongyang successfully advanced by beating Singapore’s Zheng Jiaheng 2:0. Lei Lanxi and Sun Feixiang regrettably stopped in the first round.
In the first round of the women’s singles match, Chinese players He Bingjiao, Wang Zhiyi and Zhang Yiman all won 2:1 to advance, and Han Yue lost the match. The women’s single and the second seed Japanese star Akane Yamaguchi and South Korean star An Se Young passed the test smoothly. Japanese women’s singles star Nozomi Okuhara, who is ranked No. 5 in the world, announced her retirement after losing the first game against Myanmar’s Tusa Tusa.
The two women’s doubles pairs of Guoyu, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu, both won 2-0 in the first round of the main competition. The bronze medalists of the Tokyo Olympics, South Korean team Kim So Young/Kong Hee Rong lost to Indonesian team Siti/Libuka and were upset.
The second-seeded women’s doubles team Lee So-hee/Shin Seung-chan of South Korea and the popular Japanese women’s doubles team Yuki Fukushima/Ayaka Hirota successfully advanced to the second round. (Finish)Return to Sohu, see more
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