China Badminton: Top Player’s Home Loss

Also on the fourth day of the competition there was big surprises at the Badminton tournament China Masters. Particularly noteworthy is the defeat of Wang Zhi Yi against Korean Kim Ga eun in the quarter -finals of the women’s singles.

Kim Ga eun is in 17th place in the world rankings and is currently not highly assessed. A year ago, Kim Ga eun lost to the German Open 2024 Nguyen Thuy Linh.

Wang Zhi Yi presented himself in an impressive form and won the Hong Kong Open last week. The Hong Kong Open are a Super 500 tournament in the BWF World Tour system, while the China Masters are a Super 750 tournament.

Top players like Wang therefore put a lot of effort into this tournament. This assignment was demonstrated by the 21:13 victory in the first sentence.

But in the second sentence, Kim suddenly recovered and won with 21:17. The Korean defended his opponent’s attacks, which is in second place in the world rankings, extremely persistent.

The enthusiastic cheer of the audience in the Shenzhen Arena did not get Kim out of shape. On the contrary, Wang showed psychological signs at the beginning of the third game and constantly made mistakes.

In the end, to the surprise of the audience, the Chinese was just 11:21 and said goodbye to the tournament in the quarter -finals.

Despite the defeat of Wang Zhi Yi, the Chinese badminton world champion still has a championship candidate who could make it into the semi-finals: number 3 in the world, Han Yue, who will meet Kim Ga eun in the semi-finals.

The other semi -final game takes place between the number 1 on Se Young (Korea) and the Yamaguchi (Japan) set to number 4.

In the men’s singles, the Chinese world ranking twelfth Weng Hongyang unexpectedly moved into the semi-finals and met his French opponent Christo Popov.

Compared to the women’s singles, there were a number of surprises in the men’s singles, as top seeds such as Shi Yuqi (China), Kunlavut Vitidsarn, Jonathan Christie (Indonesia) and Loh Kean Yew (Singapore) left early.