China Clinches Five Quarter Berths in Japan OpenFive Chinese women shuttlers all made their ways to the quarterfinals by beating their respective opponents in the second round of the Japan Open badminton tournament in Tokyo on Thursday.Current and former world number ones Dai Yun and Ye Zhaoying were stretched to three games before reaching the last eight as top-seeded Dai outplayed Japanese Miho Tanaka 11-13, 11-3, 11-2, and defending champion Ye stormed back from 0-6 down in the final game for an 11-4, 11-13, 11-8 victory in 64 minutes. Other Chinese advancing the quarterfinals include third-seeded Gong Zhichao who beat Japanese Mika Anjo 11-1, 11-4, Gong Ruina defeated Japanese Fumi Iwakawi 11-1, 11-9 and fifth-seeded Zhou Mi outwitted another Japanese Takako Ido 11-7, 8-11 and 11-3. The remaining three quarterfinal berths were snatched by world champion Camilla Martin of Denmark, Mia Audina of the Netherlands and Japanese national champion Yasuko Mizui. Martin eased aside Huang Chia-chi of Chinese Taipei, 11-4, 11-7, Audina, the Atlanta Olympic silver medallist, breezed past Japan's Kyoko Komuro 11-4, 11-1 while Mizui trounced Miyo Akao 11-1, 11-1 in an all-Japanese match. In the men's singles second round, four seeded players fell victims, namely world silver medallist Fung Permadi of Chinese Taipei, China's Asian Games champion Dong Jiong and Asian champion Chen Hong, and Rashid Sidek of Malaysia. World champion Sun Jun beat Rosobin Jeffer of Indonesia 16-17, 15-4, 15-9, Danish world number one Peter Gade defeated Rony Agustinus of Indonesia 15-3, 15-1, while All-England winner Xia Xuanze of China smashed aside Yong Hock Kin 15-2, 17-14. |
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