Tough Battle for Ahsan/Setiawan – Fuzhou China Open: Day 2
World champions Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan overcame a difficult opening challenge to progress to the second round of the Fuzhou China Open 2019 today.
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The Indonesians were involved in a cracker of a match against Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang/Wang Chi-Lin, who fought every inch of the way in the first two games and saved two match points before eventually going down 27-25 22-24 21-17 in 56 minutes.
Ahsan and Setiawan next face China’s Ou Xuan Yi and veteran Zhang Nan in the second round.
It was also a challenging first round for third seeds Li Jun Hui and Liu Yu Chen, who overcame Korea’s Choi Solgyu/Seo Seung Jae 21-19 19-21 21-15.