Satoshi Yamaguchi Eliminated in the first match Badminton World Championship August 21 6:31
Satoshi Yamaguchi, the world leader in the badminton world championships and women's singles, was defeated by the Singaporean player in the 32nd place in the world.
The Badminton World Championship in Basel, Switzerland, was a tournament that had a major impact on the selection of representatives for the next year's Tokyo Olympics.
Among them, Yamaguchi, who ranked first in the women's singles, played against Singapore's 32nd player in the second round of the first round. Yamaguchi lost his first game 14-21 by taking shots from the beginning of the first game, losing the lead from beginning to end without showing any sharp movements.
In the second game, Yamaguchi showed his tenacity in a long rally and brought it into the competition, but he continued to make mistakes at the end of the game and lost 18 to 21 and lost the game count 0 to 2.
Yamaguchi said that after the match, he had a pain in his hips since last month, and he couldn't practice enough.
“The gap between my image and movement was so big that I couldn't fill it, and I made a lot of mistakes.” Regarding the loss of the first world championship before the Olympics in the first match, he said, “I can't be sorry. I was n’t ready, so I could n’t do anything. It seemed to be.
On the other hand, Nozomi Okuhara, 4th in the world in women's singles, won a straight win over Russia's 33rd in the world without any danger and broke through the first match.
In the mixed doubles, the world's 3rd-ranked player Yudai Watanabe and Arisa Higashino won the second round of the game against Indonesia's 17th-ranked pair in a game count of 2 to 1 and progressed to the 3rd round. Kento Momota, the world's No. 1 singles player, went straight to the third round without winning the 87th Spanish player in the world.