Ahn Se-young (20), a leading badminton player in Korea, made a fresh start to winning the first individual event in the world individual badminton championships.
Ahn Se-young, who placed 3rd in the world rankings, lightly defeated Nguyen Thuy Lin (Vietnam) 2-0 (21-18 21-10) in the women’s singles round of 32 at the 2022 World Individual Badminton Championships held at Tokyo Metropolitan Stadium in Japan on the 23rd. . It only took her 36 minutes to finish the match.
Ahn Se-young is evaluated as the right person to solve the drought of gold medals in Korean singles at this tournament. Since the first World Championships in Malmo, Sweden, began in 1977 in Malmo, Sweden, Korea’s badminton has never won the top in men’s and women’s singles. The previous best results were the silver medals of Suh Suh-hyeon in the women’s singles in 1993 and Seong-woo Park in the men’s singles in 1995. During that time, he won gold medals in men’s doubles four times, women’s doubles once, and mixed doubles five times.
Ahn Se-young’s momentum this year is scary. She has won the Korea Open and Malaysia Masters twice this year. She especially won the Malaysian tournament final, beating Chen Yu-fei (China) in the finals of 7 out of 8, which she had met 7 times and never won.
Ahn Se-young is also a strong contender for the championship this time around. The biggest hurdle to the championship is expected to be a match against world No. 1 Akane Yamaguchi (Japan). The two will face off in the semi-finals head-to-head.
Ahn Se-young beat Yamaguchi in the semi-finals of the French Open in 2019 and the final of the Indonesia tournament in November last year, but has been knocked down three times since then. His career record is 5-7. If they exceed Yamaguchi, they will have a return match with Chen Yupei in the grand final.
Ga-eun Kim (23), ranked 19th in the world, failed to advance to the round of 16 after losing 1-2 to Japan’s strongman Takahashi Sayaka (14th). She won the first set 21-9 first, but then dropped two sets 16-21 13-21.
Meanwhile, Heo Kwang-hee (27), the only Korean men’s singles player to participate in this tournament, was eliminated in the first round. Heo Kwang-hee, 32nd place in the world, lost to 11th place Ncarong Angus (Hong Kong) 0-2 (15-21 21-23) in the round of 64 played the day before.
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