Carolina Marín has passed the round of 16 of the India Open by beating in two sets, by a double score of 21-16 in 37 minutes of the game, the Thai Ratchanok Intanon.
Now Carolina Marín will have a difficult duel in the quarterfinals against the current number one in the world ranking, the Japanese Akane Yamaguchi, who in the first round of this tournament beat the Spanish Clara Azurmendi.
In a duel between two former world champions, www.badminton.es It stands out that Carolina Marín achieved a clear victory in 37 minutes, imposing a higher rhythm compared to her previous match. The Spaniard did not stop moving her rival across the length and breadth of the track, in displacements that Intanon found it increasingly difficult to reach. With some unforced errors, but not trailing in the entire first set, Marín took the set with a margin of 21-16.
A similar script took place in the second, in which Marín quickly picked up the shuttle every time her rival made a mistake or she won a point near the net to resume the game as soon as possible and get the most out of her state of grace. A) Yes, The Olympic champion in 2016, three times world champion and six times in Europe, reached the middle of the second heat with an 11-4 advantage on the scoreboard, that ended with the final 21-16.
“It’s been quite a mental game”
The Spaniard assured that she felt “very happy with how I played today, especially with how I feel physically and how we have prepared the match. It was a fairly mental match in the sense that we had a strategy in mind. That is what I have had in mind throughout the game and it has worked very, very well”, he told EFE. “That attitude is what leads me to win games against the best in the world and that’s what I want to keep”indicated.
This Thursday’s victory is the fifth that Marín has achieved in eleven matches against Intanon, whom she had not faced for three years, when she was defeated in the final of the Indonesian Open.
In the next round, the Spanish number one in the ranking and current world champion, Yamaguchi, awaits the Spanish, who beat the Chinese Yue Han a few hours earlier by 21-14 and 21-17 in 33 minutes.
the face to face among them it is slightly favorable to Marín, who has beaten Yamaguchi eight times, for six losses. The last confrontation of him dates from last Octoberwhen the Huelva volante won in two sets in the semifinals of the French Open.
