DUBAI, April 28 (Xinhua) — China’s Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan superior to the ladies’s doubles quarterfinals by eliminating Indonesian pair Meilysa Trias Puspitasari and Rachel Allessya Rose on the 2023 Badminton Asia Championships right here on Thursday.
Tokyo Olympic silver medalists Chen and Jia completed the match comfortably 21-9, 21-11 in half-hour. They will meet Japanese duo Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota within the quarterfinal on Friday.
However, two different Chinese pairs, Li Yijing and Luo Xumin, and Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu, misplaced their round-of-16 matches within the ladies’s doubles.
Only one Chinese duo made it to the final eight within the males’s doubles as Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang edged South Korean duo Choi Sol-gyu and Kim Won-ho 21-17, 19-21, 21-19. Their compatriots Ren Xiangyu and Tan Qiang, and Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi had been each eradicated.
Mixed doubles high seeds Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong of China beat Singaporean Hee Yong Kai Terry and Tan Wei Han Jessica 21-13, 21-9. They had been joined by teammates Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin within the closing eight.
But Cheng Xing and Chen Fanghui fell 12-21, 22-20, 21-15 to Goh Soon Huat and Lai Shevon Jemie of Malaysia within the second spherical.
Third seed Chen Yufei cruised to a 21-15, 21-15 victory over Japan’s Aya Ohori, reaching the ladies’s singles quarterfinals along with her compatriot He Bingjiao. Another Chinese shuttler Han Yue fell in straight video games to eighth-seeded Pusarla Venkata Sindhu of India.
Lu Guangzu and Li Shifeng moved into the boys’s singles quarterfinals, whereas Shi Yuqi misplaced to Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong, China 21-18, 21-18.