Ahn Se-young to write 'South Korea's first Korea history' in the highest authority competition... For the first time in the history of the Jeon Young Open, the first time to lose

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Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), the "world's strongest," will start the championship race again. The stage that will challenge for the third time this season's individual competition and the fourth time, including the team competition, is the All-English Open Badminton Championship, which is considered the most prestigious badminton competition.

Ahn Se-young, the world No. 1 in women's singles, left Incheon International Airport on the 27th with other badminton team players. The tournament will be held at the Utilita Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, England, for six days from the 3rd to the 8th of next month. According to the Badminton Korea Association, the national team will also hold the first overseas training session for 12 days.

Ahn Se-young will compete in the women's singles with Kim Ga-eun (Samsung Life Insurance) and Shim Yu-jin (Incheon International Airport). Seo Seung-jae, Kim Won-ho (Samsung Life Insurance), Kang Min-hyuk (National Military Sports Unit), Ki Dong-ju (Incheon International Airport) will compete in men's doubles, Lee So-hee, Baek Ha-na (Incheon International Airport), Lee Yeon-woo (Samsung Life Insurance) and Lee Seo-jin (Incheon International Airport) will compete in women's doubles.

Attention is focusing on the "first history of Korean badminton" that Ahn Se-young will challenge at this competition.

Ahn Se-young won the Korean women's singles title for the first time in 27 years since Soo Soo-hyun in the 2023 competition. In 2024, he lost to Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) and was eliminated from the semifinals, but beat Wang Zui (China) last year to win the second championship of his career.

If Ahn Se-young remains at the top of the tournament again, she will write a new history of losing the single at the All-English Open, the first most prestigious competition in Korean badminton history. Until now, only doubles players have won consecutive games in Korean badminton, and singles players have never won consecutive games. It is the first history of Ahn Se-young's challenge.

The momentum couldn't be steeper. Ahn Se-young has already reaffirmed her unwavering position as the world's strongest by winning the Malaysian Open and Indian Open one after another earlier this year. At the Asian Team Championships on the 8th, he also showed off his tight skills and took the lead in winning the first Asian team event ever for the Korean women's national team. He is at the top of the podium in each competition he participated in this year, and this momentum is significant in that he is in the extension of the record of the most wins (11 wins) and the highest winning rate (94.8%). This is why expectations for a new history are growing.

In addition to Ahn Se-young, Seo Seung-jae and Kim Won-ho, the world's No. 1 men's doubles player, will also try to win their second consecutive title following last year. Seo Seung-jae, who was unable to participate in the Asian Team Championship due to his shoulder injury during the Malaysian Open last month, will work with Kim Won-ho again through this tournament. Lee So-hee and Baek Ha-na, the world's fourth-ranked women's doubles player, will try to regain the top of the All-British Open for the first time in two years since 2024.

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