On January 12, Beijing time, the 1/4 finals of the third round of the 2024 Malaysia Open Badminton Championships Super1000 continued.
Chen Yufei's 21-13, 21-17 victory over Mariska took her head-to-head record to 8-3, with the latter last beating Chen Yufei in the final of the 2023 Kumamoto Badminton Masters in Japan, where she won her first career Super500 title and second Super300 title, both from last season, and rose to No. 7 in the world.
Chen Yufei faced Dai Tzu Ying in the semifinals, who came with the championship of the year-end finals of the Badminton Federation last season, swept two consecutive rounds to advance to the quarterfinals against He Bingjiao, and won another complete victory, only 0-1 in the first game, and a wave of 8-0 in the second game, and the two games took only 37 minutes. In the end, Tai Tzu Ying defeated sixth seed He Bingjiao 21-16, 21-15 to win five straight matches against him, and reached the semi-finals of the Malaysia Open for the seventh time in her career after 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023.
Singapore's husband and wife pair Xu Yongkai/Chen Weihan upset world No. 6 Dechapol/Sapsiri 21-16, 21-19, and won two in a row after three consecutive defeats.
Kim Won-ho/Zheng Na-eun defeated Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong 21-11, 18-21, 21-17 to win their third match after last year's Singapore Open and French Open, and also ended the IELTS pair's 22-game winning streak in Malaysia, ending the IELTS four-game winning streak and Zheng Siwei's fifth consecutive title, and tomorrow's semi-final against Singapore's husband and wife pair Xu Yongkai/Chen Weihan. It was Korea's first semi-final in the Malaysia Open after Lee Yong-dae/Lee Hyo-jung in 2009, losing 14-21, 19-21 to then-top seeds Nova Vidianto/Liliana Nasir.
In the 10 years since 2004, the national team has won the mixed doubles title seven times (not in 2020), only in 2016, when Indonesia's Ahmad/Natsir won the title. This year's four pairs of mixed doubles in the national feather competition, the world No. 4 Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping and the new pair Cheng Xing/Zhang Chi suffered a round of tours!
Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin only officially stepped into the international arena in September 2022, and in more than a year, they have gone from zero to now fifth in the world, and even the world champion Descha has been surpassed by them! Last season, they reached 9 finals in all competitions, won the Asian Championships, won the French Open Badminton Super750 championship, and won the bronze medal at the World Championships, and was named the most improved pair of the year.
World No. 3, new World Championship champion Seo Seung Jae / Choi Yoo Hyeong, the latter can be described as a decade of sharpening a sword, and the accumulation exploded, especially in the 2023 World Championship final 21-17, 10-21, 21-18 against the end of IELTS's 9 consecutive defeats, ushering in the first win to win the championship!
Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin vs. Seo Seung-jae/Choi Yoo-hyeong, the two sides have played each other five times, and the meat combination has won 4, most recently in the third round of the 2023 Japan Badminton Masters Super500, Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin stopped in the quarterfinals 19-21, 19+21, and suffered four consecutive defeats. The first meeting was in the first round of the Indonesia Masters, where Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin won 2-1, almost a year after an interval!
In this matchup, in the first game, the battle was stalemate, and the nine draws were tied to 19-19, and Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin scored 2 points in a row to lock the victory in one fell swoop. In the second game, Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin scored four points in a row after falling behind 6-7 and kept the advantage to the end, and at the end of the game, they scored three points in a row to lock in the victory, 21-14 and the next city.
Jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin advanced to the semifinals 2-0 and the winner of the Japanese derby, most likely Dongdu!
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