TOKYO: Two Korean teams faced off today in a battle for the women’s doubles bronze in badminton at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with world No 5 pair Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong prevailing over their compatriots, who are ranked a notch higher.
Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan were unable to recover from a tough first game despite doing much better in the second, and lost 21-10, 21-17 to Kim and Kong.
“Since we know each other very well, we tried to pretend this was practice not the real match so that we didn’t feel nervous,” Kong said.
Next up is a fight for the women’s doubles gold between Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu of Indonesia’s and China’s Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan.
The men’s singles finals will be held later in the day between world No 2 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and China’s Chen Long, the champion from the 2016 Rio Games.