Vietnamese players reach int’l badminton tourney semis

Four Vietnamese players advanced to the next round of the Nepal International Series badminton tournament in Kathmandu on December 15.
Vietnamese players reach int’l badminton tourney semis ảnh 1Vietnamese badminton player Pham Cao Cuong (Photo: VNA)
 
Hanoi (VNA) - Four Vietnamese players advanced to the next round of the Nepal International Series badminton tournament in Kathmandu on December 15.

Women’s singles category No 1 seed Nguyen Thuy Linh beat Nepalese player Sichhya Shrestha 21-6, 21-12 in the quarter-final match.

Linh will next face No 3 Aghaei Hajiagha Soraya of Iran.

Her teammate Tran Thi Phuong Thuy won 21-8, 21-7 over Nepal’s Megha Chand. Her next opponent is Indonesian Devi Yunita Indah Saru.

In the men’s singles, Le Duc Phat, No 7 seed, beat Tushar Krishna Roy from Bangladesh 21-10, 21-11 while his No 6 teammate Pham Cao Cuong trounced Mohammad Salman Khan of Bangladesh 21-8, 21-5.

Phat will next meet No 5 Siddharath Thakur while Cuong will play No 2 Abhishek Yelegar. Thakur and Yelegar are from India.

Only pair Dang Quang Huy and Nguyen Duc Giang were stopped after losing 11-21, 7-21 to No 2 duo Arjun Madathil Ramachandran and Ramchandran Shlok of India.-VNA
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