An Seyoung is displaying no indicators of slowing down as she booked her place within the remaining on the 2026 BWF China Masters.
The Olympic badminton girls’s singles champion is into her eighth remaining of the season, with the highest seed making no mistake in a 21-13, 21-15 semi-final victory towards third seed Yamaguchi Akane on Saturday (5 September).
An has received six out of seven finals this 12 months – the All England Open being the exception – and has picked up from the place she left off eventually month’s World Championships in New Delhi, India.
The lately topped two-time world champion will tackle Miyazaki Tomoka, the rising Japanese star and former world junior champion, within the Folks’s Republic of China.
Miyazaki, 20, upset second seed and Chinese language dwelling hope Wang Zhiyi in straight video games (21-19, 23-21) and saved two match factors in an excellent fightback on the Shenzhen Area.
“After [the World Championships in] India, I took a while to replicate on the place I fell quick and the way I might enhance,” Miyazaki mentioned through the BWF. “At this time, the important thing to successful was my unwavering willpower, which got here from these reflections on my strengths and weaknesses.”
The world No. 9 now targets her fourth profession BWF title, having beforehand reached a Tremendous 1000 remaining on the 2024 China Open. To take action, Miyazaki must beat the World No. 1, having misplaced all of their earlier seven conferences.
