SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) — China’s ace shuttler Chen Yufei cruised into the ladies’s singles final 16, whereas Rio Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain suffered an early exit on the first spherical of the 2023 BWF China Masters right here on Wednesday.
Third seed Chen powered into the second spherical by defeating teammate Gao Fangjie 21-14, 21-13. “We know each other well and I played with the idea of learning from her,” mentioned Gao.
The 25-year-old Chen, who’s amongst three candidates for the BWF ladies’s Player of the Year together with world No. 1 An Se-young of South Korea and Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu-ying, mentioned that An was the favourite to win the award. “She performed really well this year. She deserves that.”
Another ladies’s singles match noticed a fierce battle between Spain’s Marin and unseeded Nguyen Thuy Linh from Vietnam. Marin took the primary recreation 21-10 with ease, however Nguyen fought again to win the subsequent two 21-19, 21-15.
“She performed better than me today and made few errors. I feel very frustrated. Maybe I need to work harder in the training,” commented the Spanish veteran.
In the boys’s singles, house favourite Shi Yuqi eradicated India’s Lakshya Sen in straight units. Indonesia’s Ginting Anthony Sinisuka, seeded second, overcame Loh Kean Yew of Singapore 21-15, 21-19 to advance.
The blended doubles prime seeds Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong from China loved a cushty win over Denmark’s Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje 21-15, 21-18, whereas their compatriots Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping bested Indonesian pair Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto and Lisa Ayu Kusumawati 21-17, 21-16.
Chinese shuttlers additionally confirmed robust efficiency within the ladies’s doubles, as Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning, Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu, and Li Wenmei and Liu Xuanxuan all clinched straight-game wins.
In the boys’s doubles, second seeds Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang of China edged previous Supak Jomkoh and Kittinupong Kedren of Thailand 21-16, 21-16, whereas Tokyo Olympic champions Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin of Chinese Taipei fought laborious to beat world champions Kang Min-hyuk and Seo Seung-jae of South Korea 23-21, 19-21, 21-17.