"Ahn Se-young's Perfect Head start" Women's Badminton advances to the quarterfinals of the Asian Team Championships

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The Korean women's badminton team is one step closer to winning the first Asian men's and women's team championships.

The women's badminton team beat Taiwan 4-1 in the second Group Z match of the women's team in Qingdao, China, on the 5th (Korea time).

South Korea, which previously defeated Singapore 5-0, passed Group Z as the first place with two wins and advanced to the quarterfinals tournament.

In the quarterfinals of the tournament, they will face Malaysia, which reached the quarterfinals after losing 1-4 to China in Group W. If they advance to the semifinals, they will face the winner of the Indonesia-Thailand match.

Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), who took a break in the last match against Singapore, perfectly gained the upper hand after being the first runner on the day. Ahn Se-young, who faced Chiu Finchian, won 2-0 (21-10, 21-13) in 39 minutes.

South Korea, which gained momentum, defeated the two-game doubles team Baek Ha-na (Incheon International Airport) and Kim Hye-jeong (Samsung Sae-myeong) by 2-0 (21-6, 21-6) and Kim Ga-in (Samsung Life Insurance) came from behind to beat Lin Xiang-Ti 2-1 (13-21, 21-14, 21-14) in the three-game singles.

South Korea's Lee Seo-jin (Incheon International Airport) and Lee Yeon-woo (Samsung Life Insurance) group, who played in the four-game doubles, lost, but Park Ga-eun (Kimcheon City Hall) finished the game with a five-game singles victory.

The Asian Men's and Women's Team Championships is a biennial national competition. Three singles and two doubles are mixed to determine the winner with three wins out of five. In the group stage, the first and second place in each group will reach the quarterfinals tournament to determine the winning team.

Women's badminton was the runner-up in 2020 and 2022, but it has never come out on top yet. Korea, which is leading the world's strongest player in women's singles, will try to win for the first time through this competition.

The semifinals of this tournament will be given the right to participate in the World Women's Team Championship (Uber Cup) in Denmark in April.

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