Sunday, September 26, 2010

Minh cruises into quarters at Tokyo badminton event

Vietnam's Olympian Nguyen Tien Minh went through to the quarters of the Japan Super Series in Tokyo on Sept. 23.


Minh, who is seeded No 7 for the tournament, defeated Jan Jorgensen of
Denmark 21-11, 22-20 in the men's singles. He will next play Peter
Hoeg Gade, also from Denmark.


Gade, who beat Takuma Ueda of Japan 21-3, 17-21, 21-12, is seeded No 2.


Meanwhile, world No 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia easily beat Kenichi Tago of Japan 21-10, 21-10 in the third-round.


Defending champion China's Bao Chunlai earned a quarter-final place
against Lee after defeating Kazushi Yamada of Japan 21-13, 21-13.


Earlier in the day, three-time former world champion Lin Dan of China beat Hu Yun of Hong Kong 21-17, 21-14.


In the quarter-finals today, Lin will take on Park Sung-hwan of the
Republiaue of Korea, who defeated Sho Sasaki of Japan 21-12, 21-15.


On the women's side, title candidate Hongyan Pi of France was beaten
6-21, 11-21 by China's 2002 world junior champion Jiang Yanjiao.


Other seeds who played on Sept. 23 included Tina Baun of Denmark, No 4;
Wang Shixian of China, No 3; and Japan's Eriko Hirose, No 7. All went
through to the next round./.

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