Korean Badminton Team Advances to Finals in China Open Championships

Women’s singles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles advance to finals
Lee So-hee challenges to win for the first time in 7 years since 2016
The Korean badminton team is challenging its best ever performance at a tournament being held in China.

Korea has reached the finals of three events at the 2023 China Open Badminton Championships, which has been held in Changzhou, China since the 5th. The finals will be held at 2pm on the 10th.

Women’s singles world No. 1 Ahn Se-young will face world No. 2 Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) in the final. Ahn Se-young is trailing with 8 wins and 12 losses in her opponent’s record.

In women’s doubles, world No. 2 Lee So-hee and Baek Hana will face world No. 1 Chen Qingchen and Jaifan (China). The opponent’s record is tight at 2 wins and 2 losses.

Seungjae Seo and Yujeong Chae, ranked 5th in the world in mixed doubles, will face Tom Gikel and Delphine Delou (France), ranked 8th in the world for the first time in the final.

Korean badminton team, which won three gold medals at the World Championships in Denmark last month, will challenge for three gold medals again in this tournament.

If Korea wins all three events in this tournament, it will achieve its best performance in China Open history.

Korea’s highest score ever in a single tournament at the China Open is two gold medals. In 2008 and 2009, when Lee Yong-dae was very active, the men’s doubles pair of Lee Yong-dae and Jeong Jae-seong and the mixed doubles pair of Lee Yong-dae and Lee Hyo-jeong won their second consecutive China Open title.

If a gold medal is won in this tournament, Korean badminton will win the China Open for the first time in seven years. In this competition in 2016, the team of Jang Yena and Lee Sohee beat the Chinese team to win the gold medal. Attention is being paid to whether Lee So-hee, who won the championship with Jang Y-na seven years ago, can once again win the women’s doubles gold medal by teaming up with Baek Hana this time.

If a gold medal is won for the first time in seven years, it is expected to be another signal of the revival of Korean badminton. In addition, the prospect of winning a medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games held at the end of this month is expected to become even brighter.

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