Ga-eun Kim. Photo = Getty Images Korea
Korean badminton continued the momentum from the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games at the 2023 Korea Masters.
The badminton team won three gold medals and one bronze medal on the last day of the competition, which ended on the 12th at Gwangju Women’s University Universiade Gymnasium. He won the women’s singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, and took third place in the men’s doubles. It also achieved first place overall, ahead of Japan (1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze).
Kim Ga-eun (25, Samsung Life Insurance, 19th place) played her part in the women’s singles where ‘shuttlecock queen’ Ahn Se-young (21, Samsung Life Insurance, 1st place) was unable to participate due to a knee injury suffered at the Hangzhou Asian Games. Kim Ga-eun won the women’s singles final against Tomoka Miyazaki (Japan, 75th) with a set score of 2-1 (19-21 21-17 21-12) and stood at the top.
Kim Ga-eun gave up 4 points in a row at the end of the first set, leading 19-17, and bowed out. However, in the second set, they took the lead by scoring three consecutive points in the middle of the game at 16-16, and added two points at 19-17 to make the set score 1-1. Kim Ga-eun, who continued her momentum in the third set, defeated Miyazaki with five consecutive points while taking a 13-8 lead.
Na-eun Jeong (23, Hwasun County Office) and Hye-jeong Kim (25, Samsung Life Insurance, 13th) also defeated Yui Hirogami and Yuna Kato (Japan, 32nd) in the women’s doubles final with a set score of 2-0 (21-12 21-19). subdued by Following Kim So-young (31, Incheon International Airport) and Gong Hee-yong (27, Jeonbuk Bank, 3rd place) last year, she gave the women’s doubles gold medal to Korea for the second year in a row. Kim Hye-jeong suffered an ankle injury at the Korea Open in July, and Jeong Na-eun also suffered the pain of being eliminated in the round of 32 in mixed doubles at the Hangzhou Asian Games, but she is expected to gain momentum again with this win. Seung-jae Seo (26, Samsung Life Insurance) and Chae Yu-jeong (28, Incheon International Airport, 4th place) defeated Zhang Jianbang and Wei Yaxin (China, 6th place) in the mixed doubles final with a set score of 2-0 (21-14 21-15). won
Meanwhile, Ahn Se-young held an autograph session to welcome fans in her hometown of Gwangju. Her return stage is expected to be the Kumamoto Masters in Japan on the 14th.
Reporter Kwon Jae-min [email protected] See more of this reporter’s articles
2023-11-12 13:10:31
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