All-Chinese final set in mixed doubles at Indonesia Masters, missing women's singles
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E-mail Xinhua, January 18, 2020
JAKARTA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- An all-Chinese final has been set in the mixed doubles, while their compatriots failed to reach the women's singles final at the Indonesia Masters badminton tournament here on Saturday.
Spain's world No. 1 Carolina Marin denied the chance of China's leading player He Bingjiao with a straight-set win in 50 minutes, 21-11, 21-19, while Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon beat Wang Zhiyi 21-12, 23-21 in the other semifinal.
In the mixed doubles play, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong set up a final encounter with fellow Chinese Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping after the top-ranked Zheng/Huang eased past Malaysia's Tan Kian Meng/Lai Pei Jing 21-15, 21-15 and Wang/Huang defeated French pair Delphine Delrue/Thom Gicquel 21-19, 21-16.
Zheng/Huang will vie to defend their title in Sunday's final. A year ago, the pair beat the 2016 Rio Olympic champions and local favorites Tontowi Ahmad/Lilyana Natsir to lift the trophy.
Also on Saturday, Indonesian Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu made the women's doubles final after defeating South Korean Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong 21-19, 21-15.
They will play Denmark's Maiken Fruergaard/Sara Thygesen on Sunday after the latter beat Japanese Matsutomo Misaki/Takahashi Ayaka 22-20, 22-20 to reach the final.
For the men's singles, Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, who outplayed Denmark's star shuttler Viktor Axelsen 22-20, 21-11, will next meet another Dane Anders Antonsen, who defeated Lee Cheuk Yiu from Hong Kong, China 21-9, 21-14.
The Indonesia Masters 2020 is taking place from January 14 to 19 at the Istora Senayan sports stadium in the country's capital city of Jakarta.
The total prize money for the event is 400,000 U.S. dollars, which is up about 14 percent from that of the same event in 2019. Enditem
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