China ends Denmark's title hopes
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August 29, 2010, Sunday
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CHINA dashed Europe's title hopes as Danes Peter Gade and Tine Baun both lost to Chinese players in the semifinals of the world badminton championships in Paris yesterday.
Chen Jin outlasted European champion Gade 19-21, 21-8, 21-11, while Wang Lin routed Baun 21-11, 21-8 in the women's singles.
The 2009 runner-up Chen will face either Park Sung-hwan of South Korea or 2004 Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia.
Chen, the fourth seed, has stood for years in the shadow of fellow Chinese and three-time world champion Lin Dan.
Gade, 33, won six straight points to lead 15-8 in the first game. The Dane hit a jump smash clocked at 247 kilometers per hour to get five game points. Chen saved four of them but could not retrieve another smash from Gade at 20-19.
Gade, a world finalist in 2001, made a flurry of unforced errors to drop the second game and could not recover in the last as Chen quickly built a 10-2 lead.
In the women's, former top-ranked Wang also guaranteed China a gold medal since she will play either Wang Xin or Wang Shixian in the final.
Lin played very aggressively to lead 9-2 in the first game against Baun and won the last ten points in the second.
"I really had a lot of pain in my (right) elbow," a tearful Baun said. "It's very difficult when I cannot play with my hard smash. I have to be at my highest level to go against China."
Wang, who won the bronze medal at the 2009 worlds, hit 18 smash winners.
"She got a lot of confidence when she saw I wasn't as sharp as I am used to," Baun said. "She didn't have to be ready for my hard smash."
The defeat for Baun ended a 17-match winning streak. She had been sidelined for four months by a right heel injury before making her comeback at the championships.
Chen Jin outlasted European champion Gade 19-21, 21-8, 21-11, while Wang Lin routed Baun 21-11, 21-8 in the women's singles.
The 2009 runner-up Chen will face either Park Sung-hwan of South Korea or 2004 Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia.
Chen, the fourth seed, has stood for years in the shadow of fellow Chinese and three-time world champion Lin Dan.
Gade, 33, won six straight points to lead 15-8 in the first game. The Dane hit a jump smash clocked at 247 kilometers per hour to get five game points. Chen saved four of them but could not retrieve another smash from Gade at 20-19.
Gade, a world finalist in 2001, made a flurry of unforced errors to drop the second game and could not recover in the last as Chen quickly built a 10-2 lead.
In the women's, former top-ranked Wang also guaranteed China a gold medal since she will play either Wang Xin or Wang Shixian in the final.
Lin played very aggressively to lead 9-2 in the first game against Baun and won the last ten points in the second.
"I really had a lot of pain in my (right) elbow," a tearful Baun said. "It's very difficult when I cannot play with my hard smash. I have to be at my highest level to go against China."
Wang, who won the bronze medal at the 2009 worlds, hit 18 smash winners.
"She got a lot of confidence when she saw I wasn't as sharp as I am used to," Baun said. "She didn't have to be ready for my hard smash."
The defeat for Baun ended a 17-match winning streak. She had been sidelined for four months by a right heel injury before making her comeback at the championships.
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