German Open: Upsets Aplenty with Tai, Yamaguchi the Biggest

As many as 10 seeded players or pairs crashed on an upset-dominated Day 3 of the YONEX GAINWARD German Open 2022.

⁨11 Mar 2022⁩ · ⁨BWF STAFF⁩

Women's singles saw the most casualties, with the top two seeds – Tai Tzu Ying and world champion Akane Yamaguchi – losing to Sayaka Takahashi and He Bing Jiao.

Yamaguchi, also the three-time defending champion, went down 21-17 21-11 while Tai suffered her first defeat (21-15 21-18) in seven meetings against Takahashi.

Also out was seventh seed and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Pusarla V. Sindhu, who lost her first clash with Zhang Yi Man 21-14 15-21 21-14.

• YONEX GAINWARD German Open 2022

• Tai Tzu Ying
• Akane Yamaguchi
• Sayaka Takahashi
• He Bing Jiao
• Pusarla V. Sindhu
• Zhang Yi Man
• Chen Yu Fei
• An Se Young
• Ratchanok Intanon
• Lee So Hee
• Shin Seung Chan
• Chiharu Shida
• Nami Matsuyama
• Zhang Shu Xian
• Zheng Yu
• Jeong Na Eun
• Kim Hye Jeong
• Anthony Sinisuka Ginting
• Jonatan Christie
• Kunlavut Vitidsarn
• Lakshya Sen
• Viktor Axelsen
• Toma Junior Popov
• Kidambi Srikanth
• Dechapol Puavaranukroh
• Sapsiree Taerattanachai
• Jones Ralfy Jansen
• Linda Efler
• Han Yue
• Ou Xuan Yi
• Huang Ya Qiong
• Liu Yu Chen
• Yvonne Li
• Lianne Tan

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