World Badminton Federation (BWF) World Tour Super 300 German Open women’s singles champion Yamaguchi (left) and runner-up Ahn Se-young. AFP = Yonhap News
Korean badminton women’s singles ace Ahn Se-young (21, Samsung Life Insurance) is continuing a battle against Japan’s archrival Yamaguchi Akane (Japan). She gave away the trophy again, this time.
Ahn Se-young lost to Yamaguchi 0-2 (11-21 14-21) in the women’s singles final of the World Badminton Federation (BWF) World Tour Super 300 German Open held in Mulheim, Germany on the 13th (Korean time). It was a confrontation between world number 2 Ahn Se-young and 1st place Yamaguchi, but the match leaned heavily to one side.
On this day, Ahn Se-young continued the tight flow until the middle of the first set. However, in the 8-10 match, Yamaguchi scored 10 points in a row, and the atmosphere turned sharply. In the second set, Ahn Se-young took the lead 7-4, but Yamaguchi scored consecutively and turned the score 10-7 to win the match.
This year, Ahn Se-young recorded 1 win and 2 losses in three matches against Yamaguchi. In particular, all of them were finals, but in the first tournament of the year, the Malaysian Open, Yamaguchi won the championship by winning 2-1, and a week later, in the final of the Indian Open, Ahn Se-young took revenge with a hot score of 2-1 and climbed to the top.
Ahn Se-young drove the momentum of winning the Indian Open and lifted the championship cup to Indonesia Masters. She continued to challenge for the German Open, but she was again blocked by Yamaguchi. Ahn Se-young is behind Yamaguchi with a total of 6 wins and 12 losses.
Baek Ha-na (left) and Lee So-hee jointly won the women’s doubles championship at the World Badminton Federation (BWF) World Tour Super 300 German Open. AFP = Yonhap News
The men’s and women’s doubles team resolved Ahn Se-young’s disappointment instead. In the women’s doubles, world No. 32 Baek Ha-na (MG Saemaul Geumgo) and Lee So-hee (Incheon International Airport) won the gold medal by defeating world No. 2 Nami Matsuyama and Jiharu Shida (Japan) 2-0 (21-19 21-15) in the final. won
In the men’s doubles, the finals of Korean players were held. Choi Sol-gyu (Army Sports Corps) – Kim Won-ho (Samsung Life Insurance) defeated Seo Seung-jae (Army Military Sports Corps) – Kang Min-hyeok (Samsung Life Insurance) 2-1 (21-19 18-21 21-19). Kim Won-ho also advanced to the finals in mixed doubles paired with Jung Na-eun (Hwasun-gun Office). Peng Yanze and Huang Dongping (China) lost 0-2 (4-21 15-21) and added a silver medal.
The next generation of dreamers also conveyed good news. In the men’s doubles at the German Junior Open held in Berlin, Germany, Park Beom-soo (Dangjinbo High School) and Lee Jong-min (Kwangmyung Book High School) won a come-from-behind 2-1 (21-23 21-14 21-16) victory over Cheon Jeo-han and Lin Xiang-yi (China). rose to the top
