Things worked well for Malaysia’s new mixed doubles pair of Chan Peng Soon-Cheah Yee See as they reached the last four in the USD600,000 Victor Korea Open – their semi-finals in a Super Series event.
The Malaysians staged a strong come back from a game down to beat homesters Seo Seung-jae-Kim Ha-na 13-21, 21-10, 21-18 in 72 minutes. T
They next face China’s Wang Yilyu-Huang Dongping for a historic place in Sunday’s final. The Chinese defeated Japan’s Yuki Kaneko-Koharu Yonemoto also in three games 17-21, 27-25, 21-19 also in 72 minutes.
However, it was the end of the road for another Malaysian pair Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie who were expected to breeze into the last four but instead fell to a shock defeat to unheralded Mervin Emil Seidel-Linda Efler.
It was all the more shocking as the Germans were promoted from the qualifying rounds following withdrawals and had never won a match in the main draw of a Super Series event in the past.
The Malaysians, ranked No 18, easily won the first game 21-18 but simply lost their rhythm and focus and went down 13-21, 18-21 in the next two games.
Soon Huat-Shevon Lai won the silver medal in last month’s Sea Games in Kuala Lumpur. – BY RIZAL ABDULLAH
QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS
Men’s singles
Son Wan-ho (Kor) beat Sameer Verma (Ind) 20-22. 21-10, 21-13
Anthony Ginting (Ina) beat Kenta Nishimoto (Jpn) 21-19, 21-13
Jonatan Christie (Ina) beat Kazumasa Sakai (Jpn) 21-13, 16-21, 21-19
Wang Tzu Wei (Tpe) beat Hans Kristian Vittinghus (Den) 21-11, 19-21, 21-14
Men’s doubles
Marcus Fernaldi Gideon-Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Ina) beat Liu Cheng-Zhang Nan (Chn) 21-16, 28-26
Takuro Hoki-Yugo Kobayashi (Jpn) beat Liao Min Chn-Su Cheng Heng (Tpe) 21-18, 19-21, 21-13
Takeshi Kamura-Keigo Sonoda (Jpn) beat SatwiksairajRankireddy-Chirag Shetty (Ind) 21-14, 17-21, 21-15
Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen (Den) beat Mads Conrad-Petersen-Mads Pieler Kolding (Den) 21-19, 22-20
Women’s singles
Akane Yamaguchi (Jpn) beat Ratchanok Intanon (Tha) 21-12, 21-16
P.V. Sindhu (Ind) beat Minatsu Mitani (Jpn) 21-19. 16-21, 21-10
Nozomi Okuhara (Jpn) beat Yap Pui Yin (Hkg) 21-15, 21-10
He Bingjiao (Chn) beat Sung Ji-hyun (Kor) 21-19, 16-21, 21-19
Women’s doubles
Huang Yaqiong-Yu Xiaohan (Chn) beat Mayu Matsumoto-Wakana Nagahara (Jpn) 21-17, 22-24, 21-15
Misaki Matsutomo-Ayaka Takahashi (Jpn) beat Greysia Polii-Apriyani Rahayu (Ina) 21-15, 21-13
Kamilla Rhytter Juhl-Christina Pedersen (Den) beat Du Yue-Xu Ya (Chn) 21-11, 21-12
Chang Ye-na-Lee So-hee (Kor) beat Kim Hye-rin-Yoo Hae-won (Kor) 15-21, 21-19, 21-15
Mixed doubles
Chan Peng Soon-Cheah Yee See (Mas) beat Soo Seung-jae-Kim Ha-na (Kor) 13-21, 21-10, 21-18
Marvin Emil Seidel-Linda Elfer (Ger) beat Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie (Mas) 18-21, 21-13, 21-18
Wang Yilyu-Huang Dongping (Chn) beat Yuki Kaneko-Kohara Yonemoto (Jpn) 17-21, 27-25, 21-19
Praveen Jordan-Debby Susanto (Ina) beat Takuro Hoki-Sayaka Hirota (Jpn) 21-17, 21-17
