On December 13, Beijing time, the International Badminton Federation Finals are underway. It's the first day of competition, with the group stage starting first, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the knockout rounds. In terms of national feathers, there were seven matches on the first match day, including Chen Yufei against Han Yue, Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan against teammate Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning, Wang Chang and Liang Weikeng against Liu Yuchen, Ou Xuanyi, and Shi Yuqi against Axelsen.
In women's singles, Ahn Se-ying played against teammate Kim Ga-eun. Also in the group are Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying and Indonesia's Mariska. Ahn Se-young is ranked No. 1 in the world and Kim Ga-eun is ranked No. 13, and Ahn Se-young missed several tournaments at the end of the year due to injury. Jin Jiaen is also the winner of the Asian Games women's team championship, and she upset the national feather world champion He Bingjiao in the Asian Games.
In the first game, An Se-ying was a little slow to heat up, on the other hand, Kim Ga-eun played more actively, An Se-ying's injury did not seem to have healed, and the pace of movement was restricted, and Kim Ga-eun won the first game 21-18. In the second game, Jin Jiaen led 8:5, and then An Xiying overtook the score 9:8. Kim Ga-eun played very fiercely, scoring consecutive slashes and attacks, and it seems that Kim Ga-eun has a strong desire to win in this game.
Kim Ga-eun overtook the score at 11:10 and took the lead to enter the technical timeout. The more Kim Ga-eun played, the more confident he became, and the more determined he was to shoot. In this game, Jin Jiaen always maintained a leading competitive state and completely suppressed An Xiying. In the first game, Jin Jiaen mainly attacked diagonally, and in the second game, he opened diagonally, and An Xiying's shot was a little conservative and not very resolute, probably because of her body.
In the second half, Kim Ga-eun led 16-11, and then An Se-ying asked for a timeout, and An Se-ying needed to seize the time and adjust her competitive state. In the second half, Jin Jiaen did not relax, and always suppressed his teammate An Xiying, Jin Jiaen led 19:13, and finally got the match point at 20:13, without missing the opportunity, Jin Jiaen was full of energy, locked the victory with 21:18, and defeated the world's No. 1 An Xiying with a total score of 2:0.
In this way, in the first big upset of the finals, An Xiying lost to teammate Jin Jiaen 0:2, missed a good start, and lost the women's singles world No. 1. After An Xiying lost, the qualifying situation was not optimistic. Next, South Korean star An Seying will also face Tai Tzu Ying and Mariska, if you want to qualify smoothly, you must win all of them, which is very difficult. In the women's singles, Olympic champions Chen Yufei, Han Yue, Zhang Beiwen, and Ma Lin were in the same group, and the top two advanced to the knockout round.