- Return of the injury Losing to win: Carolina Marín's plan to get fit to the Olympic Games
Carolina Marín will play the Chinese Open final on Sunday after re-signing a comeback in the semifinals that measured Japan's Sayaka Takahashi who won three sets by 20-22, 21-13 and 21-18.
"I feel really excited right now. When I won, I collapsed and cried a little, when you have had a long injury and you are with rehabilitation you have that feeling of never giving up and continuing to squeeze," Marin admitted after another exciting meeting in statements collected by the World Federation website.
24 hours after having lived a hard and tense clash in quarters with the Chinese He Bing Jiao, seventh favorite of the tournament and supported by his audience, the current Olympic champion did not have anything easy against the Japanese, sixteenth of the world rankings and that as In almost all of his previous five clashes, he planted a lot of battle in a duel that lasted more than an hour.
Takahashi was not disturbed by the good start of the Huelva, which opened the gap in the scoreboard at the start and came to enjoy five rental points. However, the Asian was gradually trimming to chain six straight points to get ahead (16-18).
Marín pulled character to lift two set balls, but ended up giving up the first set (20-22). The Japanese continued intoned at the start of the second and placed with a threatening 7-10, but the one that reacted then was the triple world champion, who took 14 of the last 17 points to force a third and final set (21-13 ).
On this occasion, the one that was more 'launched' was the Spanish, who dominated Takahashi, quickly escaping in the electronic. The Andalusian made a clear 17-11 and this time he did not descend to get the pass to the final where he will measure the world number one and second favorite, Tai Tzu Ying, in search of winning his first title since he conquered precisely this China Open in 2018. The Taiwanese has won the Spanish in its last six clashes.
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