Michelle Li shown an early exit. (Photo by Fauzi Ananta )
Top seeded Michelle Li and defending champion Zhang Beiwen have both been shown the exit in the women’s singles first round of the US Open badminton championships.
Li, the reigning Pan-Am champion, was beaten by a player well below her world number 13 ranking. She was beaten by Chen Su Yu 21-16, 15-21, 21-19.
The Taiwanese, ranked 67th in world, battled hard in the match that lasted 54-minutes and will take on India’s Rakshita Sree Santhosh Ramraj in the second round. The 19-year-old Indian player had cruised past Tereza Svabikova of Czechia 21-15, 21-8 in her opening match.
Beiwen, looking to a third US Open title, was beaten by compatriot Ella Lin 17-21, 21-14, 17-21 in her opening match. The fourth seeded American had also won the US Open in 2014 but was outfoxed by Ella, ranked 69th, in their first ever meeting.
Ella plays Bulgarian Kaloyana Nalbantova, who defeated India’s Anmol Kharb 21-15, 21-15, in the second round.
Also show an early exit was Denmark’s Amalie Schulz. The seventh seed was beaten 13-21, 21-18, 15-21 by Anna Tatranova of France.
The men’s singles also saw an upset in the men’s singles with seventh seed Wang Po-Wei suffering a 15-21, 20-22 defeat to Japan’s Shogo Ogawa.
Top seeded veteran Chou Tien-Chen won a tight contest against teammate Wang Yu-Kai 21-19, 21-18 in his opening match.
There was also some good news for Malaysian Lee Zii Jia, who broke a four match early round losing streak with a 21-15, 21-17 win over Vietnam’s Nguyen Hai Dang.
SECOND ROUND RESULTS
Men’s singles: Cheam June Wei (Mas) bt Ting Yen-Chen (Tpe) 21-8, 21-18; Rounak Chouhan (Ind) bt S. Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian (Ind) 23-21, 21-16; Chou Tien Chen (Tpe) bt Wang Yu-Kai (Tpe) 21-19, 21-18; Lee Zii Jia (Mas) bt Nguyen Hai Dang (Vie) 21-15, 21-17; Yoo Tae-bin (Kor) bt Kevin Cordon (Gua) 23-21, 21-19; Mark Shelley Alcala (USA) bt Huang Ping-Hsien (Tpe) 21-14, 21-18; Misha Zilberman (Isr) bt Mathias Kicklitz (Ger) 21-11, 21-17; Brian Yang (Can) bt William Bojebjerg (Den) 17-21, 21-17, 21-9; Su Li-yang (Kor) bt Jonathan Matias (Bra) 21-16, 21-17; Liao Jhuo-Fu (Tpe) bt Minoru Koga (Jpn) 21-19, 14-21, 21-14; Shogo Ogawa (Jpn) bt Wang Po-Wei (Tpe) 21-14, 21-17; Harry Huang (Den) bt Ditlev Jaeger Holm (Den) 21-14, 21-17; Riki Takei (Jpn) bt Aria Dinata (Cro) 21-15, 7-2, 21-14; Joakim Oldorff (Fin) bt Kalle Koljonen (Fin) 21-18, 17-21 retired; Yudai Okimoto (Jpn) bt Julien Carraggi (Ger) 21-15, 21-19; Kidambi Srikanth (Ind) bt Saneeth Dayanand (Ind) 21-14, 21-12
Men’s doubles: Chia Yen Lin-Lin Yong Sheng (Tpe) bt Kiren Milan Deraj-Kyi Nicholas (Can) 21-6, 21-16; Ben Lane-Sean Vendy (Eng) bt Ludwig Axelsson-Filip Karlborg (Swe) 21-16, 21-13; Takuto Goto-Tsubasa Yoshida (Jpn) bt Chiu Shao Hua-Lin Bing-Wei (Tpe) 19-21, 21-13, 21-16; Haruki Kawabe-Kenta Matsukawa (Jpn) bt Chen Cheng Kuan-Liu Kuang Heng (Tpe) 22-20, 21-16
Women’s singles: Riko Gunji (Jpn) bt Tanya Hemanth (Ind) 21-11, 21-13l Tung Ciou-Tong (Tpe) bt Aakarshi Kashyap (Ind) 21-9, 21-17; Line Christophersen (Den) bt Kim Min-ji (Kor) 26-24, 21-16; Peng Yu Wei (Tpe) bt Ishika Jaiswal (USA) 21-15, 12-21, 21-10; Chen Su Yu (Tpe) bt Michelle Li (Can) 16-21, 21-15, 21-19; Tonrug Saeheng (Tha) bt Vivien Sandorhazi (Hun) 21-14, 21-11; Anna Tatranova (Fra) bt Amalie Schulz (Den) 21-13, 18-21, 21-15; Tanvi Sharma (Ger) bt Yvonne Li (Ger) 23-21, 21-16; Ella Lin (USA) bt Zhang Beiwen (USA) 21-17, 14-21, 21-17; Sung Shuo-yun (Kor) bt Juliana Viana Vieira (Bra) 21-17, 19-21, 21-11; Huang Ching Ping (Tpe) bt Wen Yu Zhang (Can) 21-18, 21-19; Kaloyana Nalbantova (Ukr) bt Anmol Kharb (Ind) 21-15, 21-15; Rakshita Sree Santhosh Ramraj (Ind) bt Tereza Svabikova (Cze) 21-15, 21-8; Rachel Chan (Can) bt Sriyanshi Valishetty (Ind) 21-19, 21-11; Devika Sihag (Ind) bt Ines Lucia Castillo (Per) 21-14, 21-14; Polina Buhrova (Ukr) bt Anna Siess Ryberg (Den) 21-17, 21-9
Women’s doubles: Sian Kelly-Lizzie Tolman (Eng) bt Zoey Tan-Cassidy Yeh (USA) 20-22, 21-11, 21-14
Mixed doubles: Timothy Lock-Chloe Hoang (Can) bt Chen Zhiyi-Francesca Corbett (USA) 18-21, 21-16, 21-18; Wu Hsuan-Yi-Yang Chu Yun (Tpe) bt Zhang Tian Qi-Audrey Chang (USA) 21-12, 21-9; Presley Smith-Jennie Gai (USA) bt Filip Karlborg-Tilda Sjoo (Swe) 21-16, 21-13; Tegas Satriaji Cahyo Hutomo-Chloe Ho (Ina-USA) bt Tonkid Saeheng-Tonrug Saeheng (Tha) 21-14, 21-14; Kristoffer Kolding-Mette Werge (Den) bt Lai Jun Heng-Jasmine Yeung (USA) 21-14, 21-9; Callum Hemming-Estelle van Leeuwen (Eng) bt Xu Zicheng-Yeh Cassidy (USA) 21-8, 21-9; Ansen Liu-Charity Lam (USA) bt Calvin Devereux-Desiree Toepffer (Ger) 21-8, 21-11; Daniel Leung-Jackie Dent (Can) bt Linden Wang-Katelin Ngo (USA) 21-14, 22-20; Lin Bing-Wei-Lin Jhih Yun (Tpe) bt Kevin Lee-Eliana Zhang (Can) 21-18, 21-15; Christopher Martinez-Diana Corleto (Gua) bt Ruben Garcia-Lucia Rodriguez (Esp) 7-21, 21-18, 21-16; Liu Kuang Heng-Hsu Yin-hui (Tpe) bt Luis Armando Montoya Navarro-Miriam Jacqueline Rodriguez Perez (Mex) 21-23, 21-19, 21-11; Dhruv Rawat-Maneesha K (Ind) bt Wirawan Ihsan Adam-Serena Kani (Ina) 21-15, 21-16; Julien Maio-Lea Palermo (Fra) bt Ondrej Kral-Tereza Svabikova (Cze) 21-15, 21-18; Davi Silva-Sania Lima (Bra) bt Samuel Jones-Lizzie Tolman (Eng) 21-15, 21-11; Oliver Butler-Abbygael Harris (Eng) bt Jonathan Bing Tsan Lai-Crystal Lai (Can) 12-21, 21-16, 21-14; Akira Koga-Natsu Saito (Jpn) bt Fabricio Farias-Jaqueline Lima (Bra) 21-9, 21-8
