On May 18, 2024, Beijing time, the Badminton Thailand Open will continue, and the semi-finals of each individual event will be held on this match day. The Thailand Open is one of the 2024 BWF World Tour tournaments, which are fourth-tier tournaments, and due to the low level, the associations only send some of their main players to participate, hiding most of the main players to prepare for the Bari Olympics. In this competition, the main players such as the national feather IELTS combination, the Fanchen combination, Chen Yufei and Shi Yuqi did not register, and only sent players such as the No. 3 and newcomers in each individual event to participate.
The last match day ended all the individual 1/4 matches, the national feather achieved a record of 4 wins and 3 losses, the men's singles and women's doubles were all out, the mixed doubles and men's doubles were only the only seedlings, the women's singles Han Yue and Wang Zhiyi successfully divided the upper and lower halves, and tried to meet the finals on this match day. In men's singles, Lu Guangzu lost 1:2 to Malaysia's Li Zijia to stop in the quarterfinals, and the women's doubles combination of Luo Xu Min/Li Yijing was swept out by the Thai pair Zongkong Pan/Rawinda.
On this match day, the finals of each individual event will be contested, and the Chinese badminton will have four matches, namely women's singles Han Yue vs. Li Meimiao, Wang Zhiyi vs. Ge Tong; Mixed Doubles Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui vs. Rivaldi/Mentari; Men's Doubles Chen Boyang/Liu Yi take on Kim Ki Jung/Jin Sha Lang, and the following are the specific match results.
Getong 2:1 Wang Zhiyi
Thailand's Ge Thong is ranked 16th in the world and Wang Zhiyi is ranked 8th and is the No. 2 seed in this tournament. He is a Thai star who has won singles titles in tournaments such as the US Open Badminton Championships in his career, and has reached the finals of the Badminton Masters in Madrid, Spain and the Thailand Masters in succession this season, finishing second in singles. Although Wang Zhiyi is ranked 8th in the world, Wang Zhiyi did not qualify for the Paris Olympics due to the high ranking of Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao.
Wang Zhiyi has been in good form this season, helping the national team not only win the Uber Cup, but also win the Indonesia Badminton Masters and Asian Championships. In the first game of the game, Getong scored 3 points in a row after the kick-off and took a 3:0 lead, and then Wang Zhiyi continued to chase points, and the game entered a stalemate stage after the two sides fought to a 7:7 draw, and Getong took an 11:10 advantage in the first half to enter the technical break. Back on the field, Getong scored consecutive points in the later stages, and finally won the game 21:17 and got off to a good start. In the second game, the competition between the two sides was fierce, and Getong took a 7:5 lead at the beginning, and then Wang Zhiyi counterattacked strongly and took an 11:8 lead in the first half. In the second half, Wang Zhiyi continued to exert her strength, blasting out a wave of 4:0 scoring climax, and finally pulled back a game with 21:12.
In the decisive game, the two sides fought fiercely, and after the score battle reached a 6:6 draw, Getong accelerated his attack, scored 5 points in a row, and finally entered the technical break at 11:6. Back on the field, although Wang Zhiyi continued to chase points, but has been suppressed, Getong once took a 19:16 lead, at the critical moment Wang Zhiyi withstood the pressure and scored four points in a row, and took the lead in winning the game point at 20:19, but unfortunately then Getong scored three points in a row, won the game at 22:20, and won the game with a score of 2:1 to advance to the finals.
Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui 2:0 Vardi/Mentari
Indonesia's Rivaldi/Mentari, ranked 15th in the world, are the second seeds in the mixed doubles tournament. The new national feather pair Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui performed well in this competition, defeating Thailand's Supak/Supisara and others to reach the semi-finals. In this competition, Guoyu has hidden ace mixed doubles pairs such as IELTS and Phoenix, and sent newcomer pairs to participate in the competition to provide them with opportunities.
In the first game of the game, the competition between the two sides was fierce, the score rose alternately to lead, and the game was difficult to distinguish, and in the first half, Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui took an 11:10 lead into the technical break. In the second half, Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui took advantage of the victory to pursue, continued to expand the score advantage, and finally won the game 21:15 and got off to a good start. In the second game, after the score of the two sides was tied at 6:6, Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui made a strong effort and took an 11:7 lead in the first half. In the second half, Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui was like a rainbow, firmly controlled the game, and finally won the game 21:14, and successfully advanced to the final with a big score of 2:0.