Badminton Lee So-hee (Incheon International Airport) and Baek Hana (MG Saemaeul Geumgo) advanced to the women’s doubles finals at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
World No. 2 Lee So-hee and Baek Hana defeated Japan’s Fukushima Yuki and Hirota Sayaka (world No. 4) 2-0 (21-14 21-12) in the women’s doubles semifinals at the tournament held at the Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, on the 6th. .
It has been 21 years since Ra Kyung-min and Lee Kyung-won won the championship in Busan in 2002 for a Korean player to advance to the women’s doubles final.
The opponents in the finals are world number one Chen Qingchen and Jaifan (China), who defeated national team teammates Kim So-young (Incheon International Airport) and Kong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank) in the semifinals.
Their overall record against each other is 2 wins and 3 losses, so Baek Hana and Lee Sohee are closely inferior.
On this day, Sohee Lee and Hana Baek succeeded in taking the lead at once by scoring 6 consecutive points at 12-12 in the first set.
The game was played in such a way that when Baek Hana steadily received the opponent’s attacks, Lee So-hee scored with a sharp smash.
The second set had a similar flow.
Lee So-hee and Baek Hana took the lead by scoring four consecutive points at 4-4 and entered the interval with an 11-7 lead.
After a long rally at 13-8, Baek Hana successfully scored a drop shot that completely deceived her opponent and received the white flag for Japan.
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2023-10-06 16:34:14
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