The Korean badminton team reached the quarterfinals of the World Championships (mixed team).

South Korea defeated Taiwan 3-1 in the quarterfinals of the Sudirman Cup at the 2023 World Badminton Federation (BWF) World Mixed Team Championships held in Suzhou, China on the 19th.

The Sudirman Cup is a national competition held every two years since 1989. Mixed doubles, men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles are played in the order, and the team that wins three wins first wins.

Korea defeated France, England and Japan in the group stage and advanced to the quarterfinals by finishing first in Group D. In the quarterfinal match against Taiwan, Seo Seung-jae and Chae Yu-jeong, ranked 5th in the mixed doubles world, won 2-0 (21-17 21-19) against Yang Poxuan-Hulingfang, 30th in the world.

Lee Yoon-gyu (213th), who started in the men’s singles match, lost 0-2 (17-21, 16-21) to Chu Tien-cheon (5th), but in the women’s singles, Ahn Se-young (2nd), a Korean badminton singles player, They defeated Tai Ziying (3rd place) 2-0 (21-13 22-20) to boost their momentum again.

Ahn Se-young cheered after she brushed aside her regret for finishing runner-up after losing 0-2 to Tai Zi-ying in the women’s singles final at the Asian Championships last month. Ahn Se-young continued her upward trend by holding on to Tai Tzu-ying, who defeated Akane Yamaguchi, world number one in the women’s singles, 2-0 (21-10, 21-14) in the match against Japan in the group stage.토스카지노

Korea, which had a 2-1 overall lead, finished the match by winning the fourth match, the men’s doubles. The pair of Kim Won-ho and Na Seong-seung beat the Li Yang-Ye Hong-wei pair 2-0. After winning the first set 21-19, Korea ended the game with a withdrawal due to an injury to its opponent Li Yang during the second set.

Ahn Se-young, who led Korea to victory with a victory in the women’s singles, said, “It feels like we played the final twice following the match against Yamaguchi two days ago.” I was determined not to repeat the same mistake twice,” he said.

Korea, which reached the semifinals, will challenge to recapture the top six years after winning the tournament in 2017.