2023-09-16 14:21:32
[Tilu News]The men’s singles final of the “VICTOR Hong Kong Open Badminton Championship” has been finalized! After a battle between the top four at the Hong Kong Coliseum on Saturday (16th), Japanese player Kenta Nishimoto defeated the world’s second-ranked Ginting of Indonesia and returned to the Hong Kong finals after 5 years. On Sunday (17th), he will face another Indonesian representative and world No. 6 Kishti to compete for the throne.
Jin Ting
Kenta Nishimoto
Ginting, the runner-up of the 2019 Hong Kong Open and ranked No. 2 in the world, previously won 6 out of 8 matches against Japanese player Kenta Nishimoto, ranked 15th in the world, including a 21:18 win in the top 16 of the Asian Championships in April this year. , 21:17 defeated the opponent. However, after Ginting scored 6 points in a row in the first game, he was chased by Kenta Nishimoto. The latter scored 10:1 in the middle and then pulled away sharply. At the same time, despite Ginting’s many mistakes, Kenta Nishimoto took the lead at 21:13. . In the second game, Ginting regained his confidence and scored with spikes one after another, but once again he lost points due to mistakes. In the final stage, he was unable to recover. Nishimoto Kenta scored 5 points in a row and won again at 21:15, defeating them for the first time since 2019. Ginting also returned to the Hong Kong finals after 2018.
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As for Nishimoto Kentai’s opponent in the finals, he is also from Indonesia. The Indonesian player who turned 26 on Friday (15th) met Malaysia’s Huang Zhiyong in the top four. They have played against each other three times. The first two were won by Christie reversed course in the deciding game until she lost in straight sets in the round of 16 of the Australian Open in August this year. In this game, Jishiti entered the game quickly and opened up by 6 points after an 8:1 offensive. However, after the break, it was Huang Zhiyong’s turn to tie the game at 11:11. In the later period, he equalized after losing 6 points in a row. However, he made two mistakes in the end and was defeated by Ji Shiti at 21:19.
Huang Zhiyong
In the second game, Huang Zhiyong once opened up the score by 4 points, but Jishiti quickly recovered the lost ground. The two men engaged in a fierce duel in the latter period. Huang Zhiyong regained his momentum and scored 3 points in a row. “Diao Shi” came back to win 23:21 to tie the game. Asian Games champion Kishiti led with an overwhelming advantage of 11:1 in the decisive game. After changing sides, Huang Zhiyong tried to catch up, but it was too late. In the end, Kishiti won 21:13 and advanced to the final.
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