Carolina Marn is already in the quarterfinals of the Indonesian Masters. The Spanish defeated the Thai Busanan Ongbumrungpan, who had already won their seven previous matches, 21-19 and 21-13.
After his opening win over Wen Chi Hsu, from Chinese Taipei, by a double 21-10, Marn started with the same intensity and reached the first set 6-2 in his favor. Ongbumrungpan reacted and signed a 3-0 run. The Thai capped off her comeback by going up 8-7. The three-time world champion reacted and entered the interval with 11-9 in her favor. Equality was the dominant note in the resumption. To each start of the Spanish (16-13) Ongbumrungpan responded with another chain of points (16-16). When Carolina managed to get ahead again (19-17) they did not give up to win the first set 21-19.
Marn started the second set with the same intensity. He placed 5-1 up, but his rival was not intimidated to stay in the fight (8-6). The Olympic champion did not despair. She maintained her line of concentration to chain several good shots in a row and take her advantage to 14-8. Finally, he closed the sleeve and the match with a 21-13 score. They are next rival will be the Danish Line Christophersen who beat the Spanish Clara Azurmendi 21-14 and 21-5.
The Olympic champion in Rio continues her Asian tour at the beginning of 2023 after her presence at the Malaysian Open and the Indian Open. In the first, he fell in the quarterfinals against Chen Yu Fei 18-21 and 19-21. In the second, she also said goodbye in this round after losing to the Japanese Akane Yamaguchi, number 1 and current world champion, by 17-21, 21-14 and 9-21.
This tournament is not one more in Carolina Marn’s calendar. In 2020 he reached the final and almost won the title on the same track where a year earlier she suffered a serious injury to the front of her right knee that kept her out of competition for seven and a half months. In the last two years, 2021 and 2022, she did not attend this calendar appointment.
