[Asian Games] “Korean Women’s Badminton with Ahn Se-young Should not be Taken Lightly”
In the preview of the tournament organizing committee,
it was highlighted as a strong team event with China, Japan, etc.
Ahn Se-young
Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), the world’s No. 1 badminton women’s singles player
who is challenging for the gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games,
is being highlighted as a player to watch from the team event ahead of the individual event. 바카라사이트
On the 25th, the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee shared a preview of the badminton men’s and women’s team competition on the reporting information site MyInfo.
In this badminton competition, the men’s and women’s team competition will be held from the 28th to the 1st of next month,
the 5 individual events (men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles) will be held from the 2nd to the 7th.
In the organizing committee’s preview,
Ahn Se-young, who rose to No. 1 in the world rankings in July of this year and became the first Korean player to win the singles event at the World Championships last month,
stood out as Korea’s representative runner.
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The organizing committee said, “Korea should not be taken lightly as it has this year’s women’s singles world champion Ahn Se-young,”
added, “The world’s second and third-ranked women’s doubles top group,
Baek Ha-na (MG Saemaeul Geumgo), Lee So-hee,
Kim So-young (hereinafter referred to as Incheon International Airport) Corporation)
Gong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank) will also participate,” he introduced.
China, led by 2020 Tokyo Olympic women’s singles gold medalist Chen Yufei,
world No. 5 He Bingjiao, and world No. 1 women’s doubles Chen Qingchen-Zaifan,
is the winning team of the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games led by world No. 2 women’s singles Akane Yamaguchi.
Japan was treated as a major country along with Korea.
In the men’s team event, defending champion China and last year’s World Team Championship winner India were mentioned heavily,
while Korea’s history of winning the Asian Games team event (1986, 2002, and 2014) was also mentioned.
Prior to the start of the group competition,
a draw will be held on the 27th, a day before.
In the team competition seeding determined based on the players’ world rankings,
Korea received the second seed in the women’s division,
while the men’s division was not seeded.