Another early exit for world champion on day of upsets

China’s world champion Chen Jin suffered another early exit as his horrible start to the new year saw him lose to an unseeded team mate in the second round of VICTOR Korea Open Superseries Premier tournament on Thursday, the first OSIM BWF World Superseries Premier tournament and badminton’s richest event with US$1.2 million on offer.

A week ago, the fourth seeded Chen Jin lost as the same stage in the PROTON Malaysia Open Superseries.

Last week is was Indonesia’s Simon Santoso who ousted the world champion but on Thursday, it was Chen Jin’s young team mate Wang Zhengming who created the upset, winning in straight games, 21-11, 21-14. Wang Zhengming will now play top seed Lee Chong Wei in the quarter-finals.

Following Chen Jin out the door are team mates Chen Long and Bao Chunlai, the fourth and eighth seeds respectively.

Chen Long was given the round around by Japanese youngest Kenichi Tago (above) who downed his more experienced opponent in three tough games, winning 20-22, 23-21, 21-16. Tago will now meet another Chinese player, Du Penyu, who upset Bao Chunlai 21-16, 21-13. 

There were no such worries for former world champion Lin Dan, who has shrugged off an abdominal muscle injury which forced his withdrawal from the PROTON Malaysia Open Superseries quarter-finals last week, to reach the quarter-finals.

The reigning Olympic and Asian Games gold medallist, who is seeded sixth, cruised to an easy 21-9, 21-12 victory over Marc Zwiebler to set up a quarter-final clash against Taufik Hidayat.

The second seeded Indonesia reached the last eight when he came back from a first game deficit to beat Hong Kong’s Chan Yan Kit 19-21, 21-18, 21-17. Lin Dan will start as the favourite as he has yet to lose a match or even drop a game against Taufik since 2006.

Also reaching the last eight is former winner, Peter Gade of Denmark, who defeated India’s P Kashyap 21-16, 21-13.

There were more upsets in the women’s singles as fourth seed Indian Saina Nehwal, seventh seed Julia Schenk of Germany and eighth seeded South Korean   Bae Youn Joo were eliminated.

Saina, who is returning from injury lost 17-21, 21-19, 21-11 to Japan’s Sayaka Sato, while Schenk was beaten 21-16, 22-24, 21-15 by 19-year-old Porntip Buranaprasertsuk of Thailand. 

Youn Joo, meanwhile, was taken out by team mate Sung Ji Hyun (right) who won 20-22, 21-17, 21-10. 

There was no such upset for Denmark’s Tine Baun, who reached the last eight of her first tournament of the season with a straight forward 21-10, 21-18 victory over Japan’s Eriko Hirose.

courtesy of BWF

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