Badminton News: Veteran Indonesian men’s doubles duo, Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan had to stop in the quarter-finals of the Canada Open World Tour Super 500 tournament after surrendering to their nemesis from Taiwan, Lee Yang/Wang Chi Linen.
Occupying the second seed, Ahsan / Hendra had to admit the advantage of Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist from Taiwan, Lee Yang / Wang Chi Lin in two consecutive games with the score of 17-21 and 13-21, in a match that lasted place at the Markin MacPhail Center, Calgary Canada on Saturday (8/7) morning WIB.
Ahsan/Hendra started the game badly and had to fall behind Lee/Wang 0-4 quickly even though they could only close the gap to 6-11 at the break to the advantage of the pair Taiwanese.
After the break, The Daddies went 10-13 before Lee/Wang retired again at 12-17. The Daddies had achieved hope after being able to collect four consecutive points to reduce the deficit to 16-17. Unfortunately, the Indonesian pair couldn’t stem the Lee/Wang attack, which won the opener.
A difficult situation repeated itself in the second game where Ahsan/Hendra, who were leading 0-4, managed to catch up 8-9 until Lee/Wang added three more points to close the gap with 8-11 .
After the restart, Ahsan/Hendra couldn’t do much to deal with the attacks launched by the increasingly unstoppable Olympic champion to come back to comfortably secure the second match, as well as stop Ahsan/Hendra’s resistance. Hendra in the quarter-finals of Canada 2023. Open.
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