Indonesia Open 2012: Wang Yihan powers her way into the top-four stage

Indonesia Open 2012: Wang Yihan powers her way into the top-four stage

Wang Yihan, the best player of China, reached at the top-four stage in Women’s Singles main draw after proving her worth against Denmark’s Tine Baun at the quarter-final stage in Indonesia Open Premier Super Series 2012 in Jakarta, on Friday, June 15.

Yihan, who is World Number One also top seeded shuttler in Women’s Singles draw of the event, employed all of her tricks that she had in her basket and eventually remained successful in winning the battle with a close margin.

The top seeded Chinese lady had to play to her maximum potential to overpower the World Number 6 Baun in a thrilling straight-set battle that took top class badminton from both sides. Yihan played at her best to chuck out Baun with a dramatically tight score
on the board.

In the meanwhile, the in-form Baun played impressive badminton against the World Number One and also kept on troubling her throughout the match but failed to live up to expectations in ending points and lost the match with a respectable score.

Both ladies started their run in a staggering manner in the first game as they playing powerful shots to take advantage on the score board.

However, Yihan showed her impressive craft at the end of opening half and managed a reasonable gap of 11-8 until the interval.

After the break, the Danish played well and levelled the score but failed to take a reasonable lead as her opponent was not making any errors.

Chinese lady played aggressive game in the ending phase of first game and managed to win it with a close 21-19 score on the board.

In the following set, the top seeded Yihan continued her killing run against her Danish opponent and again managed a reasonable lead on the score board until the end of first part.

Nevertheless, she failed to maintain the gap as her rival played positive badminton and made the score levelled at 13-13.

Both shuttlers played at the same speed and reached at the dramatic stage of 24-24 when Yihan remained lucky in getting ending points and won the set with a tight 26-24 score on the board.

The World Number One Yihan won this Women’s Singles match against her Danish rival in two games with a narrow margin of 21-19 and 26-24.

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Posted by Muhammad Ahmad Nazir on Jun 17 2012. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry