Vietnamese women’s badminton meets Olympic champion in team semi-final
Nguyen Thuy Linh, Vu Thi Trang and their teammates face Indonesia, which owns the reigning Olympic champion in the badminton team semifinals. SEA Games 31 took place at 9 am this morning in Bac Giang.
In round 1, Nguyen Thuy Linh, Vu Thi Trang won an impressive 3-1 victory over Malaysia when losing the only double match of Dinh Thi Phuong Hong/Do Thi Hoai and also won all 3 singles matches of Nguyen Thuy Linh, Vu Thi Trang, Vu Thi Anh Thu.
Nguyen Thuy Linh tries to make a surprise INDEPENDENCE |
That impressive victory brought the Vietnamese girls into the semi-finals, facing Indonesia. It’s difficult to recruit women Vietnam badminton when the opponent is very strong with top players worldespecially tennis player Apiyani Rahayu who won the Olympic women’s doubles at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. However, Nguyen Thuy Linh and her teammates still tried to create a surprise when there was a launch pad at home with cheers from the fans.
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In the men’s team, the confrontation with Malaysia is stronger, but with the support of a large home audience, Nguyen Tien Minh with his teammates had an emotional match, but unfortunately could not win the final.
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Nguyen Tien Minh played the pioneer singles match, winning 2-1 (21/14, 24/26, 21/7) against Kok Jing Hong. Do Tuan Duc/Pham Hong Nam lost unfortunately 1-2 (8/21, 22/20, 18/21). Le Duc Phat “carried” the number 2 singles match, facing Lee Shun Yang, losing 0-2 with a dramatic score of 19/21, 25/27. In the next doubles match, Tran Dinh Manh/Nguyen Dinh Hoang lost regretfully to Junaidi/Haikal 1-2 (21/15, 12/21, 20/22). In the end, the Vietnamese badminton team lost 1-3 to Malaysia.
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