Carolina Marín, the first seed, beat the Danish Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt 21-14 and 21-11 this Wednesday without problems, in two sleeves and in 32 minutes, in the first round of the Madrid Spain Masters badminton, which is played in the Gallur municipal sports center in Madrid.
Except for the 0-1 start for the Danish, Marin He started with advantages of +2 and +3 points until he definitively unbalanced the score with 10-5. Then he lined up firmly until scoring the first set by a seven-point margin (21-14).
The second set was much easier for the woman from Huelva, who in the blink of an eye was up 11-1, already a slab for Kjaersfeldtwho ended up succumbing to the Olympic champion in 2016, three-time European champion and six-time world champion, 21-11.
Carolina Marín, star of the Madrid Spain Masters: “This tournament is special”
This is the eleventh victory in twelve matches for Marín, seventh in the world, over the Danish, twenty-first in the ranking. Carolina Marín will play this Thursday in the round of 16 against India Malvika Bansod, who got rid of malaysia Selvaduray Kisona for 21-19, 16-21 and 21-9. It will be the first duel between Huelva and Bansod, fortieth in the BWF ranking.
He also went to the second round Clara Azurmendi, in his case at the expense of the also from San Sebastian Ania Setiencoming from the previous one.
Azurmendi beat Setién 21-18 and 21-13 to meet in the round of 16 with the eighth favorite, the American Beiwen Zhang, executioner of Riko Gunji by 21-11, 19-21, 12-15 and abandonment of the Japanese due to injury.
