Penultimate day of competition for the badminton Finals, a competition taking place in Hangzhou, China. It’s time for the semi-finals to establish what will be the challenges that will designate the winners of the different curious categories such as the French Christo Popov is the only European to have reached a finalin the men’s singles.
The Frenchman Christo Popov it takes just under an hour to get into the final. The transalpine defeats the resistance of the Japanese Kodai Naraoka 21-19 21-8. There will be two outsiders competing for tomorrow’s title. In the second semi-final the China’s Shi Yu Qi wins 21-16 21-13 over Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarnfirst seed.
In the women’s singles Korean An Se Youngseeded number 1, rule 21-15 21-12in thirty-eight minutes, the Japanese Akane Yamaguchifourth favorite on the scoreboard. It will be an all-Asian final scheduled for tomorrow because the Chinese one Wang Zhiyinumero 2 del seeding, beats the resistance of Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon 15-21 21-17 21-11 in one hour and sixteen minutes of play.
In the first semi-final of the men’s doubles the Korean couple Kim Won Ho/ Seo Seung Jae overwhelms 21-9 21-11 the Indonesian tandem Sabar Karyaman Gutama/ Moh Reza Pahlevi Isfahani. Liang Wei Keng/Wang Chang will challenge them in the final. The Chinese overtake the Indians Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/ Chirag Shetty 10-21 21-17 21-13 in one hour and three minutes.
It will be a Japan-Korea challenge to award the women’s doubles title. The Japanese Yuki Fukushima/ Mayu Matsumoto regolano la coppia malese Tan Pearly/ Thinaah Muralitharan 21-19 21-13 e they will play for the victory against Baek Ha Na/ Lee So Hee. The Koreans beat the Chinese Liu Sheng Shu/ Tan Ning 15-21 21-16 21-19 at the end of a real battle.
China is also the protagonist in the mixed doubles. Feng Yan Zhe/ Huang Dong Ping come out to bat 22-20 17-21 21-9 the Japanese Hiroki Midorikawa/Natsu Saito and access the decisive challenge against compatriots Jiang Zhen Bang/ Wei Ya Xin. The Chinese defeat the Malaysians in three sets Chen Tang Jie/ Toh Ee Wei 9-21 21-11 21-17.
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