2023-09-16 06:09:01
[Tilu News]The “VICTOR Hong Kong Open Badminton Championship” held the top four matches of each group at the Hong Kong Coliseum today (16th). Women’s singles Japan’s “first sister” and top seed Akane Yamaguchi was tied in the lead but narrowly defeated Indonesia’s No. 5 seed Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in the decider; Chinese women’s singles representative Zhang Yiman lost two straight games. Defeated Malaysia’s Goh Jin in the round, and will compete with Akane Yamaguchi in the “Sino-Japanese War” in the final tomorrow (17th).
Akane Yamaguchi
Dong Zhong
Akane Yamaguchi and Dong Zhong, who are ranked among the top 10 in the world, are old rivals. They have played against each other 16 times in total, and the Japanese “No. 1” won 12 times. Akane Yamaguchi was slightly behind in the early part of the first game, leading by 2 points before being overtaken by 4:9. It wasn’t until she tied the score at 15:15 that she began to play more smoothly, winning the first game at 21:17. After changing sides, the two scores were closely tied with each other. Although they had the same score many times, Akane Yamaguchi made many mistakes and was led by Dong Zhong by 13:17. In the final period, Akane Yamaguchi tied with 19:19, and then fought with her opponent to “Diao Shi”. After a hard battle, she lost 23:25. Akane Yamaguchi led most of the decisive game, but was tied by Dong Zhong three times. After that, she made another effort and once scored 4 points in a row, defeating Dong Zhong 21:18. After 1 hour and 10 minutes of the final battle, Akane Yamaguchi successfully reached the Hong Kong Open final for the first time.
Zhang Yiman
The other semi-final match is between Malaysia’s Goh Jin Ming and China’s Zhang Yiman, ranked 17th in the world. Zhang Yiman had lost all three previous encounters, but the last time they met was four years ago. However, the result of this game was reversed. Zhang Yiman took the lead in scoring 4 points in the first game, and then opened the score 11:4. Even though Wu Jinming once caught up with 13:12, Zhang Yiman immediately responded with 6 points in a row and won the first game at 21:14. Zhang Yiman was still in strong form in the second game and won 21:11. He defeated Wu Jinming without falling behind in the whole game. He also made it to the Hong Kong finals for the first time. Tomorrow (17th) he will compete with Akane Yamaguchi for the women’s singles championship.
Picture: Li Zizheng
Text: Zeng Xiaoying
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