At noon on January 11, Beijing time, the 2024 Badminton Malaysia Open (Super 1000) officially launched the top 8 competition, and the national badminton women's singles sister Chen Yufei and the men's singles brother Shi Yuqi both performed well in their respective competitions, and finally eliminated their opponents and successfully advanced to the top 8.
The schedule has entered the third match day, and the 1/8 finals have officially begun, and the women's doubles, women's singles and men's singles that have been the first to appear in the national feather have been reported frequently:
Chen Qingchen, Jia Yifan VS Melken Thygesen
The world's No. 1 women's doubles Fanchen combination is the defending champion of this competition, this round against the world's No. 20 Danish Maddie combination, the two sides have played each other 8 times before, the Fanchen combination has not missed, this battle again, the Fanchen combination has the advantage again, successively 21:13, 22:20 straight down two games with a total score of 2-0 swept to advance, the next game will usher in the Chinese derby, teammates are likely to be Liu Shengshu combination.
Chen Yufei VS Intanon
The two sides have played a lot of games before, Chen Yu has an absolute advantage of 16-3, this is also the second time that the two sides have played at the Malaysia Open, the last time was two years ago at the 2022 Malaysia Open, when Chen Yufei was devastated after three games of fierce battle with Tai Tzu Ying in the semi-finals, but ran out of energy in the final and was defeated by Intanon in the tiebreaker.
In this battle, Chen Yufei ushered in an excellent opportunity for revenge, and easily won the first 1-0 at 18:12 and 21:15.
In the second game, Chen Yufei once again took a 6:2 lead in the opening game. After the intermittent adjustment, Chen Yufei expanded the score to 13:9, but in the subsequent game, Intanon fought back with a wave of 5-1 tenaciously to make the score 14:14.
However, Chen Yufei did not mess up in the next game, and after several fierce battles, Chen Yufei had the last laugh, and finally avenged the opponent with 21:18 and a total score of 2-0 to advance to the top 8.
Chen Yufei will face again in the next game, and the opponent is likely to be Indonesian star Mariska.
Shi Yuqi VS Big Popov
This was the first meeting between the two sides, and the two were inseparable at the beginning of the first game, but Shi Yuqi shook off his opponent 11-8 before the break, and then extended the difference to 19:10, and finally won the opening 1-0 at 21-12.
In the second game, Shi Yuqi rode the wind and waves, leading 8:2 and 14:4 successively, and finally easily advanced to the top 8 with a total score of 2-0 without any suspense.