The badminton world championships held in Spain were held in the quarterfinals on the 17th, and the pair of Wakana Nagahara and Mayu Matsumoto, who are aiming for the third consecutive championship in the women's doubles, advanced to the semifinals.
In this tournament, the medal was decided because the 3rd place playoff was not held.
On the 17th, the 6th day of the badminton world championships, various quarterfinals were held.
Of these, in the women's doubles, the pair of Nagahara and Matsumoto, who ranked 5th in the world ranking, who won the tournament for the third consecutive time, played against the Bulgarian pair, which ranked 10th in the world.
In the first game, Matsumoto's bangs were the main points, and he scored 21 to 15 in advance.
In the second game, Nagahara, who had just recovered from an injury on his right shoulder, collected shots and scored goals, allowing him to lead for the first time in this match.
Even so, after the middle stage, he showed tenacity and turned around, taking this game 21 to 17 and deciding to advance to the semi-finals with a straight win.
In the semi-finals, we will face a Chinese pair who won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
In the mixed doubles, the pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, who won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, won the pair of Yuki Kaneko and Misaki Matsutomo, who are 18th in the world, and decided to advance to the semi-finals. rice field.
In this event, the pair of Kyohei Yamashita and Naru Shinoya, who ranked 53rd in the world, also broke through the quarterfinals, and the semifinals were a Japanese confrontation between Watanabe and Higashino.
In addition, in the men's doubles, the world's 4th place Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi, who won the first championship as a Japanese player in the "World Tour Finals" that decides the annual champion of the tour tournament, is the world's 3rd in the women's singles. Akane Yamaguchi, who was in the top position, advanced to the semi-finals.
Since there is no bronze medal match in this tournament, it was decided to win medals for players and pairs who advanced to the semi-finals.