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SINGAPORE: Badminton star Loh Kean Yew has been on a successful streak for 3 days in a row on the BWF Korea Open 2023 in Yeosu, successful towards Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong 22-20, 21-19 in a 25-minute match on Friday afternoon (Jul 21).
Korea Open 2023
MS – QF22 21🇸🇬LOH Kean Yew🏅
20 19🇲🇾NG Tze Yong🕚 in 45 minutes
— BWFScore (@seirawr) July 21, 2023
On Wednesday, Loh bested Ng’s teammate Leong Jun Hao, 21-10, 21-14 on the spherical of 32.
On Thursday, he beat China’s Zhao Junpeng, 21-19, 17-21, 21-6, to advance to the quarterfinals.
Loh faces Japan’s Kodai Naraoka, the primary seed at this 12 months’s Korea Open, on Saturday (July 22).
Ng Tze Yong 🇲🇾 misplaced to Loh Kean Yew 🇸🇬
20-22
19-21Goh Sze Fei/Nur Izzuddin 🇲🇾 misplaced to Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto 🇮🇩
9-21
21-23Tight match certainly (besides 1st recreation. jetlag ke 😫). With this, 🇲🇾 has no consultant anymore within the #KoreaOpen2023
Subsequent 👉🏻 ✈️ 🇯🇵 Open pic.twitter.com/5yP516FyUU
— Z 🇲🇾💎 (@theone_xyz2) July 21, 2023
It isn’t anticipated to be a stroll within the park for the Singaporean athlete. The 26-year-old Loh is at the moment ranked eighth on this planet’s standings, whereas Kodai is ranked fourth.
Former world champion Loh Kean Yew 🇸🇬 encounters Ng Tze Yong 🇲🇾.#BWFWorldTour #KoreaOpen2023 pic.twitter.com/Oi3A4Km1Cn
— BWF (@bwfmedia) July 21, 2023
Final month, Loh gave the impression to be in positive type as he breezed previous Indonesia’s Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo on the first spherical of the Indonesia Open in Jakarta, 21-15, 23-21, in a 45-minute match, main almost all the best way.
Nevertheless, he was later bested by China’s Li Shifeng, the reigning All England Open males’s singles champion. The 23-year-old Li is at the moment ranked fifth on this planet. Li made it to the semi-finals earlier than getting defeated by Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, 26, and who’s now ranked second on this planet.
On the finals of the Indonesia Open, Ginting went up towards Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen, the very best participant on this planet.
The Korea Open is the second event this 12 months for Loh Kean Yew to achieve the semifinals.
In April, on the Badminton Asia Championships, Loh was bested by Ginting, who went on to take house the gold.
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