PARIS – On a day of several badminton upsets, Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew was made to work for his spot in the Paris 2024 Olympics men’s singles round of 16, as he beat the spirited world No. 50 Uriel Canjura 21-13, 21-16 on July 31. The hard-earned victory over El...
PARIS – On a day of several badminton upsets, Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew was made to work for his spot in the Paris 2024 Olympics men’s singles round of 16, as he beat the spirited world No. 50 Uriel Canjura 21-13, 21-16 on July 31.
Only each of the 13 group winners progress and Loh will play China’s world No. 6 Li Shifeng, who also laboured to a 21-17, 21-17 win over Nigeria’s 103rd-ranked Anuoluwapo Opeyori, on Aug 1 for a place in the quarter-finals.Loh said: “Every win is a step closer to a medal, and I want to go as far as I can here. My mentality going into any match here is the same – prepare to the fullest, try to play to my best, and keep fighting.
World No. 4 and All England champion Jonatan Christie became badminton’s first seeded casualty at these Games after he lost 21-18, 21-12 to India’s 22nd-ranked Lakshya Sen, who topped Group L and will face 13th-ranked compatriot H. S. Prannoy or Vietnam’s world No. 70 Le Duh Phat from Group K. In the women’s singles, Taiwanese world No. 3 Tai Tzu-ying, who is retiring at the end of the season, will finish her career without an Olympic or world championship gold after she too crashed out with a 21-19, 21-15 Group E defeat by 21st-ranked Ratchanok Intanon.
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