SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) — Mixed doubles world No. 1 Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong of China powered into the semifinals of the 2023 BWF China Masters right here on Friday.
Top seeds Zheng and Huang eased previous their teammates Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin 21-12, 21-6 to advance. They will tackle compatriots Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping, who fought arduous to beat Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun of South Korea 21-16, 22-20.
World champions Seo Seung-jae and Chae Yu-jung of South Korea rallied to defeat the younger Chinese pair Cheng Xing and Chen Fanghui 16-21, 21-18, 21-17.
“They are tough players. We really hoped to take the second game after winning the first one, but we were too anxious. Maybe that’s why we finally lost the match,” mentioned Cheng.
In the ladies’s singles, Chinese shuttlers booked three spots within the final 4, as Chen Yufei, Han Yue, and Wang Zhiyi defeated their opponents respectively. South Korea’s Kim Ga-eun secured one other berth after eliminating Vietnam’s Thuy Linh Nguyen 21-19, 21-10.
“Beating An Se-young (on Thursday) and Nozomi Okuhara (on Friday) makes me feel very released. I will always try my best to get the next victory,” mentioned Wang after a 60-minute competitors with Japan’s Okuhara.
The males’s singles quarterfinals noticed three Japanese gamers enter the final 4, with Kanta Tsuneyama, Kodai Naraoka, and Kenta Nishimoto all claiming straight-set wins.
Home favorites Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan loved a speedy victory within the girls’s doubles quarterfinals, whereas fellow Chinese Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, the lads’s doubles world No. 1, overcame Tokyo Olympic champions Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin of Chinese Taipei to progress.