Korean Badminton Stars Advance to the Quarterfinals at India Open

Mixed clothes Kim Won-ho – Jeong Na-eun, men’s clothes Seo Seung-jae – Kang Min-hyuk advance to the quarterfinals
Yeobok Baek Ha-na, Lee So-hee, Kim So-young, and Gong Hee-yong also reached the quarterfinals.

Korean badminton, which is cruising at the ‘India Open’, the second international competition of the new year, is aiming for a place in the semifinals.

Korean badminton star Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance) beat world number 9 Baywon Jang (USA) in the women’s singles round of 16 of the tournament held in New Delhi, India on the 18th (Korean time) with a game score of 2-1 (21-19 14-21 21). -14).

World No. 1 Ahn Se-young, who won the Malaysia Open last week, the first tournament of the new year, is challenging to win the title for two consecutive weeks. Ahn Se-young, who joined the quarterfinals, will compete with world No. 20 Yeo Amin (Singapore) on the 19th to advance to the semifinals.

The mixed doubles team of Seo Seung-jae (Samsung Life Insurance) and Chae Yu-jeong (Incheon Airport), ranked 3rd in the world, defeated the world number 15 team of Robin Taveling and Selana Piek (Netherlands) in the round of 16 with a game score of 2-0 (21-18 21-9). was completely defeated. In the quarterfinals, they will clash with world number 13 Ye Hongwei and Lee Cha-shin (Taiwan).

The mixed doubles team of Kim Won-ho (Samsung Life Insurance) and Jeong Na-eun (Hwasun County Office), ranked 6th in the world, also advanced to the quarterfinals. They met world number 12 Hiroki Midorikawa and Natsu Saito (Japan) and defeated them with a game score of 2-1 (21-15 12-21 21-13) to advance to the round of 16. The next opponent is world number 4 Huang Dongping and Feng Yanjie (China).

In women’s doubles, the world’s second-ranked team Baek Hana (Incheon Airport) and Lee So-hee (MG Saemaul Geumgo) and the world’s third-ranked team Kim So-young (Incheon Airport) and Gong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank) reached the quarterfinals.

Lee So-hee and Baek Hana defeated the group of Lin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi (Japan) with a game score of 2-0 (21-14 21-10), and Kim So-young and Kong Hee-yong also defeated the group of Li Jing and Luo Shu-min (China) with a game score of 2-0 (21-14 21-10). They defeated it with a score of 2-0 (21-18 28-26).

Lee So-hee – Baek Hana and Kim So-young – Kong Hee-yong will face off against the Japanese group in the quarterfinals. Sohee Lee and Hana Baek will face the pair of world number 13 Rena Miyaura and Ayako Sakuramoto, while Soyoung Kim and Hee-yong Kong will face the pair of Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara, ranked 8th in the world.

The world’s third-ranked pair, Seo Seung-jae and Kang Min-hyuk (Samsung Life Insurance), has emerged as a hope for men’s doubles. In the round of 16, which was a domestic dispute between Korean players, they defeated the world’s 218th ranked team Won-ho Kim and Seong-seung Na (Gimcheon City Hall) 2-0 (21-16 21-15).

Seungjae Seo and Minhyuk Kang will compete in the quarterfinals against the world’s 7th ranked team, Fazar Alfian and Muhammad Ryan Ardianto (Indonesia).

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2024-01-19 03:50:48
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