Immediately after last week's Korea Open, the Korea Badminton Masters was held this week, and the adjusted national badminton was re-invested in the competition on a large scale, and the first round of the tournament had a high promotion rate.
The Korea Masters is a Super 300 level, and a large number of Korean veterans and young players have the opportunity to participate, including veteran Lee Yong-dae, Ko Sung-hyun /Shin Baek-cheol, Kim Sharon/Kim Ki-jong. After half a month of rest and adjustment, the Chinese team arrived in Gwangju, the host of the competition, early last week and continued to participate in the competition and compete for points. Although the level of the competition is not high, the participation of the Chinese team has increased the overall attention of the game.
The first round of matches was divided into two matchdays, the first round of matches has ended, and the Chinese team has won 12 and lost 4 of the 16 foreign matches, with a higher winning percentage.
Four men's singles players competed in the tournament, with Weng Hongyang, who had just won the Korea Open last week, easily beat an Algerian player 2-0 in the first round; Lee Shifeng and Weng Hongyang were in the same 1/4 zone, and he beat South Korea's Jeong Min-hyun 2-1 in the first round. In the next round, Li Shifeng will face Japan's Naraoka Kodai, Weng Hongyang will play against The French Lucas, and if both young players win, they will meet in the quarter-finals.
In the second half of the zone, Lu Guangzu and Cho Junpeng defeated South Korea's Lee Dong-geun 2-0 in the first round, and Cho Junpeng lost 1-2 to South Korea's Kim Dong-hoon. Other famous players who advanced to the men's singles round were South Korea's Heo Youxi and Sun Wanhu, thailand's Tamashin and so on.
Five players from the National Feather Women's Singles Group competed, and three of them advanced to the second round. Among them, Chen Yufei beat Singapore's Xu Yuxin 2-0, Wang Zhiyi beat South Korea's Shin Yujing 2-0, and He Bingjiao reversed South Korea's Quan Zhuyi 2-1, respectively, to advance. Zhang Yiman, who was injured in the European competition, was not in good shape, losing 0-2 to American youngster Lin Lauren, and Han Yue lost 0-2 to Ahn Hyun-hyun, who won the Korean Open last week.
Three of the four pairs of the men's doubles advanced, with Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang and Zhou Haodong/Ho Ji-ting beating the Thai and South Korean duo 2-0 respectively, and Liu Cheng/Jang Nan lost 21-18, 15-21, 11-21 to famous Lee Yong-dae and new partner Kim Jae-hyun in three bitter sets. There was only Liu Yuchen /Ou Xuanyi in the second half, who narrowly defeated the No. 5 seed and Indonesian rising star Karnando/Martin 13-21, 21-19, 22-20 in the 63rd minute of the vicious battle.
Since there are only 17 pairs of women's doubles matches, most of the combinations directly advance to the second round, including the two major women's doubles teams of South Korea, Shin Seung-joon/Lee So-hee, Kim Joo-young/Kong Hee-young, and Du Yue/Lee Wen-mei, Liu Hyun-hyun/Xia Yu-ting of the Chinese team. However, the two pairs of national feather women's doubles will be engaged in a civil war in the second round.
The only women's doubles players in the first round were Jeong Woo/Jang Shu-hyun, who easily beat Fang Ji-hyun/Kim Min-sung 2-0. Due to poor signing, the three pairs of national feather women's doubles are all concentrated in the 2/4 zone, so they can only enter the final four by one pair at most.
Three of the four national pairs of mixed doubles advanced, including Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, Zheng Siwei/Zhang Shuxian, Ou Xuanyi/Huang Yaqiong, and the only ones out were Guo Xinwa/Liu Xuanxuan, who lost 1-2 to teammate Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping in yesterday's civil war.