"Taka Matsu" Pair Loses Semifinals Badminton International Tournament Jan 18 21:52
In the women's doubles semifinals of the International Badminton Games in Indonesia, the pair of Rio de Janeiro Olympic gold medal Reika Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo lost to the Danish pair, and all Japanese teams disappeared.
The only Japanese women participating in this tournament, the pair of Takahashi and Matsutomo, who have won the world's fifth place in the women's doubles who have survived, will compete with the 30th-placed Danish pair in the semi-final in Jakarta on the 18th. However, both the first and second games lost 20-22, and they lost straight and did not advance to the finals.
In the women's doubles, three pairs are fighting violently over the two frames of the Japan Olympics in Tokyo. In this tournament, the pair of world's second place Kazuna Nagahara and Mayu Matsumoto and the pair of world's third place Yuki Fukushima and Ayaka Hirota both lost in the second round.