by sportswriter Wang Zijiang
TOKYO, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — Olympic champion Chen Yufei grew to become the primary participant in eight years from Team China to succeed in the ladies’s singles closing with a victory over Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei on the World Badminton Championships right here on Saturday.
But China’s lengthy watch for a males’s singles victory will proceed as Zhao Junpeng was stopped by Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn within the semifinal. Zhao was searching for to turn out to be the primary participant from China to enter the lads’s singles closing in 4 years.
The girls’s singles semifinal was a repeat of the Tokyo Olympic closing final 12 months when Chen defeated Tai in a three-set thriller to win the gold medal.
Saturday’s match proved to be harder. Chen discovered herself hunch to 10-2 behind and drop the primary set 21-15, however recovered shortly within the second set and gained full management, successful 21-14.
Chen took a commanding 20-12 lead within the decider, holding off a late rally from Tai for a 21-18 victory.
Chen can be hopeful of turning into the primary girls’s world champion from China in 11 years.
“Everybody is talking about how much China needs a women’s world champion because we have not won it for 11 years,” Chen stated. “That is an invisible pressure for me. I hope to achieve that goal, but first of all, I just want to try my best in the next match.”
In the ultimate, Chen will tackle defending champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan, who noticed off South Korea’s An Se-young 21-19, 21-12.
China’s Lin Dan and Chen Long used to rule the lads’s singles on the worlds, however since Kento Momota of Japan beat Shi Yuqi within the 2018 closing, no Chinese participant has reached the ultimate on this occasion.
Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, who gained the world title by beating Lin Dan in 2017, might be searching for his second world title after getting previous fourth-seeded Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 21-15, 21-17.
In the blended doubles, high seed and two-time winners Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong beat Olympic champions Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping to arrange a closing showdown towards Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino of Japan.
Top seed Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan will play their third closing after beating Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara of Japan. They face South Korean duo Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong, who edged previous Thailand’s Puttita Supajirakul and Sapsiree Taerattanachai.
The males’s doubles closing might be contested between Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia and Malaysia’s Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik.