Korea Open: Seeds Fall At Quarterfinal Hurdle
It was not a good day in the office for many of the seeded players at the Korea Open Badminton Championships 2022 as their title hopes in Suncheon were torpedoed on quarterfinals day.
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Sixth seed, from Thailand, Ratchanok Intanon was dumped out of the tournament by teammate, Pornpawee Chochuwong 18-21 21-12 21-13. The world No.10 took 62 hard-fought minutes to battle it out for a spot in the semifinals against Kim Gaeun tomorrow.
This will be their third encounter, having last met at the SCG Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2016, with the advantage in the Korean’s favour.
Third seeds Chirag Shetty/Satwiksairaj Rankireddy too were seen off by home hopes Kang Minhyuk/Seo Seungjae 22-20 18-21 22-20, and after clocking up one of the longest matches of the day in 78 minutes, the tandem level their head-to-head with one-a-piece over the Indian pair.
- Ratchanok Intanon
- Pornpawee Chochuwong
- Kim Gaeun
- Chirag Shetty
- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
- Kang Min Hyuk
- Seo Seung Jae
- Ong Yew Sin
- Goh Liu Ying
- Kim Won Ho
- Jeong Na Eun
- Jonatan Christie
- Kunlavut Vitidsarn
- Kidambi Srikanth
- Mohammad Ahsan
- Hendra Setiawan
- Fajar Alfian
- Muhammad Rian Ardianto
- Pusarla V. Sindhu
- Busanan Ongbamrungphan
- An Se Young
- Saena Kawakami