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Japan Places Three Teams in Tuan Chau Open Semifinals

  0 Wendy Mayer | May 11th, 2018

Tuan Chau HaLong Open One Star

The semifinals are set for Tuan Chau Island One-Star with three of the four pool play winners advancing. Top seeded Sayaka Mizoe/Suzuka Hashimoto, No. 2 Yui Nagata/Minori Kumada and No. 12 seed Yukako Suzuki/Kaho Sakaguchi will represent Japan. No. 5 seed Sofia Starikov/Noy Chorin of Isreal claimed the fourth spot, besting No. 3 seed Sara Olivova/Karolina Rehackova of the Czech Republic.

Suzuki/Sakaguchi went to tie-break to claim their spot in the podium race, edging Thi Thanh Tram/Nguyen Thi Mai of Vietnam 21-19, 18-21, 15-6.

Starikov/Chorin played through the Round of 12, topping Nai-Han Kou/Pi Hsin Liu (Chinese Taipei), before upsetting the Czech duo, winning both in straight sets.

Nagata/Kumada will face Starikov/Chorin at 9 p.m. ET.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sis2ERD1Muk

Suzuki/Sakaguchi will take on Mizoe/Hashimoto at 10 p.m. ET.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70bMnhzdWh8

The podium matches are set for 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PmqDeTmKPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BagIkXh_9FU

 

Round of 12

Maria Tyndeskov/Line Trans (Denmark) def. Fanny Lindstrom/Sara Malmstrom (Sweden) 21-10, 21-19

Thi Thanh Tram/Nguyen Thi Mai (Vietnam) def. Ya-Hsuan Yu/Tzu-Yi Pan (Chinese Taipei) 21-19, 21-14

Sofia Starikov/Noy Chorin (Israel) def. Nai-Han Kou/Pi Hsin Liu (Chinese Taipei) 21-17, 21-19

Helle Sondergard/Simone Okholm (Denmark) def. Michal Barannik/Anita Deev (Israel) 23-21, 21-19

 

Quarterfinals

Sayaka Mizoe/Suzuka Hashimoto (Japan) def. Maria Tyndeskov/Line Trans (Denmark) 21-17, 25-23

Yukako Suzuki/Kaho Sakaguchi (Japan) def. Thi Thanh Tram/Nguyen Thi Mai (Vietnam) 21-19, 18-21, 15-6

Yukako Suzuki/Kaho Sakaguchi (Israel) def. Sara Olivova/Karolina Rehackova (Czech Republic) 21-13, 21-16

Yui Nagata/Minori Kumada (Japan) def. Helle Sondergard/Simone Okholm (Denmark) 21-10, 21-11

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