DUBAI, April 29 (Xinhua) — Top-seeded Akane Yamaguchi of Japan edged defending champion Wang Zhiyi of China in a three-set thriller to succeed in the ladies’s singles semifinals on the Badminton Asia Championships right here on Friday.
Wang’s title protection got here to an finish on her birthday as Yamaguchi, who was crushed by Wang in final 12 months’s last, bounced again in straight units 21-14, 21-17 after shedding the primary 21-13.
Yamaguchi will tackle Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu-ying, who knocked out Wang’s teammate He Bingjiao in 64 minutes.
Olympic champion Chen Yufei secured the one girls’s singles semifinals berth for China after defeating Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia 21-10, 19-21, 21-13. Chen will subsequent meet South Korean shuttler An Se-young.
In the lads’s singles, favourite Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia superior to the semifinals as he recovered from one set all the way down to beat China’s Li Shifeng 10-21, 23-21, 26-24 in an intense 82-minute match.
“I am happy with my performance today, it was a very tough match,” mentioned Ginting. The Indonesian will face Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama within the semifinals.
China’s Lu Guangzu downed fourth seed Kodai Naraoka of Japan to succeed in the semifinals and can tackle Singapore’s seventh seed Loh Kean Yew.
In the doubles occasions, Chinese girls pair Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan suffered a shock loss to Japan’s Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota, whereas Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang had been additionally upset by Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin of Chinese Taipei within the males’s doubles.
In the blended doubles, prime seed Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong thrashed Indonesian pair Praveen Jordan/Melati Daeva Oktavianti 21-11, 21-17.
Zheng and Huang will face Malaysian duo Goh Soon Huat/Lai Shevon Jemie, whereas the opposite blended doubles semifinal conflict will characteristic China’s Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin and Indonesian pair Dejan Ferdinansyah/Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.