The 2023 Badminton World Cup continues and the round of 16 matches of the women’s and men’s singles tournaments were completed today. As for the men, the Japanese Tsuneyama beat the Ukrainian Bosniuk, the other Japanese Naraoka beat the Frenchman Popov, while it is still a Japanese, Nishimoto, who beats the Belgian Carraggi. Chinese Shi beat Danish Gemke, American Lee got the better of Canadian Yang in a North American derby. Among the women, the success of the Spanish Marin on the American Wang, of the Chinese Han on the Danish Kjaersfeldt and of the Japanese Yamaguchi on Arin should be noted.
In doubles, however, the adventure of Giovanni Greco and David Salutt ends in the round of 32 at the hands of the Indonesians Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan who beat the Azzurri in two sets with a score of 21-12, 21-14. “It was a great adventure Greek said. we were facing two very high-level opponents and we tried in every way to put them in difficulty. But as we knew on the eve it was not an easy undertaking. There are still some moments in the game in which we still had our say with great satisfaction. I think it’s my last world championship and I think I’ll come out of my world championship experience with my head held high”. “It was a great emotion to play at these levels – added Salut – the Indonesians were punctual at all times, but I have to say that we really enjoyed ourselves despite a clear difference in ranking”.
2023-08-23 18:12:05
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