OSAKA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) — Olympic champion Chen Yufei suffered her second defeat in every week to Akane Yamaguchi within the ladies’s singles semifinals of the Japan Open badminton event right here on Saturday.
Yamaguchi, who beat Chen in a three-set thriller on the earth championships last final Sunday, fought again from one set down and 14-9 behind within the third set to win 15-21, 21-16, 24-22.
The Japanese star has overwhelmed Chen 5 instances in a row and improved her document to fifteen wins and eight losses.
“I tried to do something different from what I did last week. It worked in the first set. But in the second and third sets, Yamaguchi was faster and more confident,” Chen stated.
Yamaguchi, who took the title when the Japan Open was held final time in 2019, will struggle for the crown in opposition to South Korea’s An Seyoung, who upset second seed Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei 21-12, 13-21, 21-14.
Team China, the largest winner on the world championships with two gold, one silver and two bronze medals, misplaced 5 of six matches on Saturday and just one pair of males’s doubles shuttlers obtained via to the finals.
In the boys’s singles, Shi Yuqi, enjoying his second event since popping out of a 10-month suspension, went right down to fourth seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 15-21, 21-19, 21-12. Chou will tackle Kenta Nishimoto, who edged previous Anders Antonsen of Denmark 22-20, 21-19.
Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, who’ve received seven blended doubles titles this season, had their profitable streak of 38 matches snapped as they misplaced to arch rivals Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino 21-17, 12-21, 23-21.
Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping, who shocked Zheng and Huang within the Tokyo Olympic last final 12 months, had been overwhelmed by Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand 21-18, 21-18.
Top-seeded Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan, who received the ladies’s doubles world title for the third time final week, misplaced an in depth match to Baek Hana and Lee Yulim of South Korea 12-21, 21-18, 21-19.
China’s solely representatives within the finals are Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, who beat South Korean duo Choi Solgyu and Kim Wonho 21-16, 21-16.
Liang and Wang, who simply began to play collectively in May, will vie for the title in opposition to seventh-seeded Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark, who noticed off South Korea’s Kim Gijung and Kim Sarang 13-21, 21-18, 21-11.