The semi-final of the badminton world championship held in Spain was held, and in the mixed doubles, the pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, who won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, advanced to the final.
On the 18th, the 7th day of the badminton world championships, various semi-finals were held.
In the mixed doubles, the pair of Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Watanabe and Higashino, who ranked 4th in the world, played against the pair of Kyohei Yamashita and Naru Shinoya, who ranked 53rd in the world.
The pair of players Watanabe and Higashino took the first game 21 to 13, overwhelming with various attacks in the second game and took 21 to 8, and won the straight with a game count of 2 to 0 and decided to advance to the final.
The pair of Watanabe and Higashino will aim for the first gold medal as a Japanese player in this event.
In the women's singles, Akane Yamaguchi, who is 3rd in the world, defeated the 46th Chinese player in the world with a game count of 2-0, and advanced to the final in the world championship for the first time.
In the final, we will play against Taiwan's Tai Tzu-ying, who is the silver medalist at the Tokyo tournament and is number one in the world.
In the men's doubles, the pair of Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi, who won the championship for the first time as a Japanese player in the "World Tour Finals" that decides the annual champion of the tour tournament, becomes the Malaysian pair of 12th in the world. We won the game count 2-0 and advanced to the finals for the second consecutive tournament.
The pair of Wakana Nagahara and Mayu Matsumoto, who were aiming to win the women's doubles for the third consecutive time, lost straight to the silver medalist of the Tokyo tournament, the world's third-placed Chinese pair, and became a bronze medal.