Korea’s Ahn Se-young is delighted after winning the gold medal in the women’s badminton singles final at the Hangzhou Asian Games held at Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China on the 7th. [사진=연합뉴스]
Badminton Ahn Se-young (21, Samsung Life Insurance) overcame a knee injury and won a gold medal in the women’s singles at the Asian Games. It is only the second time in history that a Korean player has won the women’s singles title at the Asian Games and 29 years after Bang Su-hyun, the gold medalist at the 1994 Hiroshima Games.
World No. 1 Ahn Se-young rose to the top by defeating world No. 3 Chen Yufei (China) 2-1 in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games badminton women’s singles final held at the Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on the 7th.
With this, Ahn Se-young won another gold medal following the women’s team event, becoming the second winner of this tournament.
On this day, Ahn Se-young felt pain near her right knee while fending off Chen Yu-fei’s attack at the end of the first set and received medical treatment.
Ahn Se-young, who stood up and returned to the game, saved the first set by accumulating three points first despite the pain.
However, when Ahn Se-young was unable to move her legs properly due to a knee injury, Chen Yu-fei took advantage of this opportunity to repeatedly attack successfully and take the second set.
However, Ahn Se-young showed her fighting spirit despite the injury in the third set. Ahn Se-young took a 5-0 lead from the beginning with movements that seemed to have forgotten her knee injury. Afterwards, the game was resolved with accurate drop shots, clears, and hairpins, ending the game at 21-8.
During the game, Chen Yufei also tried to break Ahn Se-young’s momentum by requesting medical time, but Ahn Se-young finished the game without wavering.
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2023-10-07 20:48:37
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