The Korean women’s badminton team hit a golden smash over the Great Wall of China for the first time in 29 years.
Ahn Se-young is cheering after winning against Chen Yu-fei in the Chinese team’s badminton women’s team final at the Hangzhou Asian Games on the 1st. News 1
Korea won the gold medal by defeating China, the world’s strongest team, with a game score of 3-0 in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games badminton women’s team final held at the Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on the 1st. It was a perfect victory, finishing 2-0 in two singles matches and one doubles match without giving up a single set.
This is the first time and only the second time in history that Korean women’s badminton has won the Asian Games team event since the 1994 Hiroshima Games. It was also the first time in 29 years that they won an Asian Games team match against China. Ahn Se-young (21, Samsung Life Insurance), world number one in women’s singles, shook off her disappointment of not being able to participate in the team event at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games and was eliminated in the first round of her individual event, and won her first Asian Games medal in gold.
Korea made it to the finals after a fierce battle for 322 minutes in the semifinals with Thailand the previous day (the 30th of last month). China, who met in the final, was the strongest team, having won the women’s badminton team event five times in a row from the 1998 Bangkok Games to the 2014 Incheon Games.
They lost the crown to Japan only in the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang tournament, and showed off their strongest performance in this tournament by pushing out Korea and taking the number one seed. In singles, there were three players ranked in the world’s top 10 (3rd, 5th, and 9th), and in doubles, there were world number 1 pair Chen Qingchen and Jaifan and 5th place Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Wei. In the semifinals, they defeated defending champion Japan and advanced to the finals. A difficult match was expected.
Baek Hana (left) and Lee Sohee are happy after winning the second doubles match against China in the badminton women’s team finals at the Hangzhou Asian Games on the 1st. News 1
The results were unexpected. Korea won unilaterally. Ace Ahn Se-young took the lead from the first singles match. Ahn Se-young defeated China’s singles ace Chen Yufei (world No. 3) with a set score of 2-0 (21-12, 21-13). Chen Yufei, who is from Hangzhou, received one-sided support from the Chinese audience, but easily defeated him without a single crisis.
In the second match, the world’s second-ranked women’s doubles team, Lee So-hee (29, Incheon International Airport) and Baek Hana (23, MG Saemaeul Geumgo), defeated the world’s second-ranked team, Cheon Ching-cheon and Jaipan, 2-0 (21-18, 21-14). I passed the first hurdle easily.
Ga-eun Kim throws a golden smash against He Bing-jiao in the Chinese team’s badminton women’s team final at the Hangzhou Asian Games on the 1st. News 1
Korea continued its momentum in the third singles match in which world number 18 Kim Ga-eun (25, Samsung Life Insurance) took part. Kim Ga-eun showed off her amazing performance against World No. 5 He Bingjiao, famous as the ‘Korean Killer’.
It was a tight battle that went all the way to deuce in the first set, and eventually won two points down at 21-21 to take the first set. In the second set, he took an early lead and tied the score at 17-17 due to He Bingjiao’s pursuit, but he scored 4 points later, putting an end to Korea’s gold medal win.
Hangzhou = Reporter Bae Youngeun [email protected]
2023-10-01 04:49:39
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