In the qualifying league group C of the Tokyo Olympics and badminton mixed doubles, the pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, who are 5th in the world ranking, will play against the 57th Australian pair in the world, and the first game will be 21-7, 1st. We won 2 games with a straight of 21 to 15 and won 2 games in the qualifying league.
As a result, it was decided that the Watanabe-Higashino pair would advance to the quarterfinals.
Yuta Watanabe, a mixed doubles player who broke through the qualifying league with two wins in two races and decided to advance to the quarter-finals, said, "I felt better after winning once in the first race, and I started the match with a good rhythm. I was able to deploy it. "
Regarding the match against the Indonesian pair who will meet in the third round of the qualifying league, "We have played many times so far, and each time we have a good match, we are getting a good stimulus, so we will do our best to each other and the qualifying league. I want to do my best so that I can get through in 1st place. "
In addition, Arisa Higashino said, "Today I made a simple mistake such as making a mistake in the opponent's slow and fast shot, so that is a correction point," he was looking ahead to the future battle.