Badminton, Malaysia Masters 2023: diaspora of seeded men, Yamaguchi’s path continues among women

The curtain has fallen on this one match day in the Malaysia Masterseleventh badminton world tour tournament. A staged event atAxiata Arena Of Kuala Lumpur. A day that experienced numerous surprises, especially in the men’s draw.

In fact, among the men he is the top seeded diaspora: in one fell swoop the Indonesian out Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (ko with Chinese Weng), the compatriot Jonathan Christie (out with Japanese Nishimoto) and Malaysian Zii Jia Leeko with Taiwanese Lin. Just the latter will cross arms with Kodai Naraokathe only one of the seeded top eight remaining in the game.

In the women’s tournament, the adventure of the number 1 in the world continues Akane Yamaguchi: the Japanese defeats the Danish Mia Blichfelds in two sets (21-18, 21-17) and will face Michelle Li, who surprised the Thai Pornpawee Chochuwong. The Chinese Zhi Yi Wang also advances, overtaking the Danish Kjaersfeldt.

In the men’s doubles, the paths of the favorite pairs continue with the knockouts of Alfian and Ardianto in the first round. Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, Ahsan and Setiawan and Hoki and Kobayashi are still in the game. Instead, the journey continues Matsuyama/Shidatop seeds in the women’s draw, who beat the Chinese pair Li/Liu with a comfortable 21-16 21-12. The ko of the Koreans is surprising Kim So-yeong/Kong Hee-yong, with the Taiwanese Hsu/Lin. In mixed doubles, the sixth to eighth seeds go knockout: Tabeling/Piek, Kim Won-Ho/Jeong Na-eun and Kusharjanto/Kusumawati give up, thanks to Puavaranukroh/Taerattanachai, Seung-Jae/Yu-jung and Yanzge/ Dongping, from the second to the fourth seed.

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