Badminton Finals opening Nagahara-Matsumoto pair Hakusei start December 11, 19:56
“World Tour Finals”, where the top rankings of badminton's world rankings come together, opened in China, and the pair of Kana Kana Nagahara and Maya Matsumoto, who won the world championships in women's doubles, is the ninth-ranked Thailand Contest with the pair of, and start the white star.
The World Tour Finals, which opened in Guangzhou, China, has high points that can be earned in the tournament where players who scored the top 8 in the tournament rankings held in the last year participated. It will have a big impact on the representative selection.
Players are divided into two groups to play a brute force group league, and the top two or two pairs of each group advance to the semi-finals.
In the women's doubles, Nagahara and Matsumoto, who were third in the world rankings who won the world championships for the first time, faced the first match against Thailand's ninth-ranked pair who had never lost in the previous six races.
Nagahara and Matsumoto lost their first game 19 to 21 with a stiff start-up, saying, “I was not used to the atmosphere of the venue” and lost six consecutive points.
The two who gradually regained their pace after entering the second game regained consecutive points in the second half and regained this game by 21 to 14, while the final third game was in a difficult development where the match points were held first. It was rebuilt with a bang that made use of the height that it possessed, and the pair of Nagahara and Matsumoto won by reversing the game count 2: 1 by taking 22-20.
Also, the first match of the men ’s doubles will be a match between Japanese teams, and the pair of Daiyu Endo and Isamu Watanabe, who is sixth in the world, will be counter-attacked from a strong defense against Keigo Sonoda and Kenji Kamura, who is fourth in the world. I took the lead in the game and took the first game 21 vs 19 and the second game 21 vs 13 and won straight, making a good start.
Nagahara "A really dangerous game"
Kana Nagahara, who won the first game by reversing the game, looked back on the game and said, “It was a really dangerous game, but I managed to win one.” I couldn't get points at my own pace, but after 2 games I was able to correct it. "
After that, for the game on the 12th, I thought that “Tomorrow ’s Korean pair is their nemesis, so if we do n’t break this, we ca n’t go on next. .
Watanabe "Rally comfortable from beginning to end"
Yudai Watanabe, who won the first match of the Men's Doubles, said, “Thanks to the cover of Endo who made a pair, I was able to develop the rally from start to finish. I was enthusiastic.
In addition, Daiyu Endo was confident that "There are still small mistakes in attacking and linking, so you have to fix it to fix it."