On December 16, Beijing time, the Badminton World Championships continued, and the women's singles 1/8 final, the national badminton player Zhang Yiman challenged South Korea's Kim Jia-eun. After 2 rounds of competition, 0-2, broke out of the cold, South Korea's famous Kim Jae-eun was eliminated, another seed player out, the national feather young player Zhang Yiman reached the women's singles top 8!
Although the age is similar, compared with Jin Jia'en, Zhang Yiman is far less famous than his opponent. Currently, Kim Is ranked 20th in the world and is the No. 16 seed in the women's singles of the World Championships. Zhang Yiman's world ranking is relatively low, this world championship, Zhang Yiman is a non-seeded player.
In the previous promotion process, Zhang Yiman was lucky, benefiting from the withdrawal of Japan's famous Okuhara Hope and directly advancing to the women's singles round of 16.
In the first set, Zhang Yiman was behind in the opening stage, and Jin Jia'en had a slight advantage. However, in the middle of the game, Zhang Yiman scored consecutive points, surpassing Kim Jia-eun in the score. 21-16, Zhang Yiman won the first set.
In the second set, Kim Jae-eun led the break. Returning from a break, Zhang Yiman quickly narrowed the point gap, 10-11 to close to 1 point. At the end of the set, Zhang Yiman broke out again, scoring consecutive points and surpassing his opponents in the score. In the end, Zhang Yiman won another set 21-19, and the General Bureau advanced to the quarterfinals 2-0.
This badminton world championships, including Chen Yufei, a number of Olympic champions are absent, and the prospects of national feathers are not optimistic. Playing to today's 5th match day, The national feather did perform very generally, the mixed doubles were all out, and the men's doubles was only a single child, however, the women's singles became the most surprising single event of the national feather, 4 players participated, so far undefeated, He Bingjiao led the national feathers to launch a strong impact towards the championship.