On August 3, Beijing time, the badminton competition of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games continued, and today's game ushered in the 1/4 finals of the women's singles.
The first match was played by world No. 1 An Seying, who is also the top seed in the women's singles, against Japan's world champion Akane Yamaguchi.
Both of them have won the World Championships, but in the past year, An Xiying's condition and results have been better, especially last year, the state was very good, but because of the impact of injury, she missed the game for a period of time, and she was not in the best state after coming back.
Ahn Se Ying has won four straight matches against Akane Yamaguchi, with a 5-3 record since last year, and both have participated in the Tokyo Olympics, but both missed out on the semi-finals, when An Se Ying was eliminated by Chen Yufei. Akane Yamaguchi has participated in two Olympic Games before, and both of them have reached the quarterfinals.
There are still four events left, but only the women's singles of Japan and Korea have a chance to compete for the title, and they can also be said to maintain hope for their entire team.
At the beginning of the game, Akane Yamaguchi played very actively, holding more shots and leading more steadily 6-3, and then maintaining a lead of 10-6, An Xiying's offense still has a strong power, both of them have done a good job in attack and defense, and they are constantly mobilizing opponents with each other, An Xiying chased to 14-13, but was soon pulled away The score was 18-14, and finally Akane Yamaguchi won the first game 21-15.
The second game started very closely, the score was tied many times 5-5, An Seying smashed the mistake, Akane Yamaguchi also made a mistake in putting the net, and then An Seying scored continuously, and the offense began to play out, 11-6 lead into the interval, Akane Yamaguchi chased to 13-10, made mistakes again and again, and suffered a little from more shots, and scored diagonally in front of the net, chasing the score 17-16 again, but An Seying stabilized her position and played her own attack 21-17 to pull back.
In the deciding game, An Xiying started 5-1, moved back and forth, plus the offense played more sharply, the feel of tennis also came out, the replay was very delicate, and the offense in the backcourt jumped directly to attack, becoming the dominant side of the game 9-4 to continue to lead. Fighting for the offense, the quality is relatively high, 13-5 opened the score, Akane Yamaguchi dropped the line, completely suppressed by An Seying in the play, I feel a little deflated, collapsed, physical fitness is not as good as before, and finally An Seying 21-8 locked the game and won 2-1.
In this way, An Seying eliminated Akane Yamaguchi and advanced to the women's singles semifinals of the Olympic Games for the first time, continuing to retain the hope of the Korea team winning the championship, while Akane Yamaguchi missed all three Olympic Games to the semifinals, which is very regrettable, once the world No. 1 and two-time world champion.
In the past two years, the competitive state was average, Tokyo was not bad at that time, the signing was not good and met the bitter master Sindhu, but at least there was a world championship title, Dai Tzu Ying has entered the finals many times, and there has never been a world champion, and this time he missed the group qualification.