my country’s top badminton women’s singles Yang Jiamin retired due to injury in the women’s singles rematch of the Thailand Badminton Open held on the afternoon of Friday (May 17), allowing Chinese player Wang Zhiyi to easily advance to the semi-finals.
The Chinese female players performed well in the first two rounds, winning in straight games against Korean player Jin Jialan (ranked 77th in the world) and Taiwanese player Qiu Pinqian (ranked 50th in the world).
However, this match was against the second seed Wang Zhiyi, ranked eighth in the world, and Yang Jiamin (ranked 18th in the world), who was listed as the seventh seed, fell behind in the first game. After once chasing to 5-6, Yang Jiamin made a series of mistakes and the score gap widened to 7-14.
Yang Jiamin, who was in a state of chasing points throughout the game, scored four points in a row after the score reached 10-17. Unexpectedly, the Chinese female player was suspected of suffering a calf injury after 14-18. Although she returned to the court after receiving brief treatment, she decided to withdraw from the game shortly after persisting, and the score was finally fixed at 14-19.
Yang Jiamin had lost all four previous matches with Wang Zhiyi, and this time Wang Zhiyi, who received Yang Jiamin’s retirement gift, will face the winner of Thailand’s Sunida and Indonesia’s Mariska in the semi-finals.
Next week’s Malaysian Masters doubtful
Regarding Yang Jiamin’s injury, Singapore Badminton Association representative Yang Jiamin responded to the “Lianhe Zaobao” inquiry after the game: “She feels discomfort in her left ankle/Achilles tendon. It is too early to judge how serious her injury is. , we will take all appropriate steps to get her back to competitive form as soon as possible.
“Her next event was supposed to be the Malaysian Masters next week, but we now have to do further assessment to see if she can still compete.”
With Luo Jianyou accidentally being eliminated in two games by Taiwanese player Wang Ziwei in the first round, and now it is Yang Jiamin’s turn to retire due to injury, there are no Singaporean players in the Thailand Badminton Open.
2024-05-17 10:40:17
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