American Jennie Gai will feature in two semi-finals at the Canada Open badminton championships.
The 25-year-old Nutritional Science graduate has qualified for both the women’s doubles and mixed doubles semi-finals.
She and partner Francesca Corbett kept up to their top seeding in the mixed doubles. The duo were forced to go the distance by the Taiwanese pairing of Hsu Yin-Hui-Lin Jhih Yun before winning the one hour battle 23-21, 16-21, 21-16.
The Americans will take on another Chinese Taipei pair, Liu Kuang Heng-Hsu Yin-Hui in the semi-finals. The unseeded Taiwanese pair defeated third seeds Julien Maio-Lea Palermo of France 21-16, 21-15 in their semi-final tie.
Jennie and partner Francesca Corbett pulled off a big upset in the women’s doubles quarter-finals. They duo, seeded sixth, stunned top seeds Hsu Yin-Hui-Lin Jhih Yun of Chinese Taipei 23-21, 16-21, 21-16.
They will take on fourth seeds Hinata Suzuki-Nao Yamakita for a place in the final.
In the men’s singles, Malaysian Lee Zii Jia comfortably disposed of sixth seeded Taiwanese Wang Po-Wei 21-15, 21-13 in his quarter-final tie. He will take on another unseeded player in the form of Japanese Riki Takei in the semi-finals.
The other semi-finals will see a battle between top seeded Victor Lai of Canada and third seeded Japanese Yudai Okimoto.
The women’s singles quarter-finals went according to script with the hosts top seed Michelle Li easing into a semi-final tie against third seed Riko Gunji of Japan. Second seeded Dane Line Christophersen will play fourth seed Zhang Beiwen of USA in the second semi-final tie.
The men’s doubles semi-finals will see an all-unseeded cast after the last standing seeds Christopher Grimley-Matthew Grimley crashed out.
The Scottish fourth seeds, were beaten 21-12, 14-21, 14-21 by Japan’s Takuto Goto-Tsubasa Yoshida in the quarter-finals.
QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS
Men’s singles: Lee Zii Jia (Mas) bt Wang Po-Wei (Tpe) 21-15, 21-13; Victor Lai (Can) bt Wang Yu-Kai (Tpe) 21-14, 21-17; Riki Takei (Jpn) bt Julien Carraggi (Ger) 21-18, 21-15; Yudai Okimoto (Jpn) bt Riku Hatano (Jpn) 21-9, 21-11
Men’s doubles: Christian Faust Kjaer-Rasmus Kjaer (Den) bt Keiichiro Matsui-Kenya Mitsuhashi (Jpn) 21-12, 22-20; Hiroki Okamura-Kyohei Yamashita (Jpn) bt Chen Cheng Kuan-Liu Kuang Heng (Tpe) 21-14, 21-23, 21-17; Julien Maio-William Villger (Fra) bt Shuntaro Mezaki-Yuta Oku (Jpn) 21-13, 15-21, 21-17; Takuto Goto-Tsubasa Yoshida (Jpn) bt Chrsitopher Grimley-Matthew Grimley (Sco) 12-21, 21-14, 21-14
Women’s singles: Line Christophersen (Den) bt Tung Ciou-Tong (Tpe) 21-13, 22-20; Michelle Li (Can) bt Huang Ching Ping (Tpe) 21-18, 21-16; Zhang Beiwen (USA) bt Amalie Schulz (Den) 21-17, 21-15; Riko Gunji (Jpn) bt Yevheniia Kantemyr (Ukr) 21-14, 21-9
Women’s doubles: Francesca Corbett-Jennie Gai (USA) bt Hsu Yin-Hui-Lin Jhih Yun (Tpe) 23-21, 16-21, 21-16; Hinata Suzuki-Nao Yamakita (Jpn) bt Ririna Hiramoto-Kokona Ishikawa (Jpn) 21-15, 21-8; Kaho Osawa-Mai Tanabe (Jpn) bt Polina Buhrova-Yevheniia Kantemyr (Ukr) 21-8, 19-21, 21-15; Lauren Lam-Allison Quynh Lee (USA) bt Lin Chih-Chun-Yang Chu Yun (Tpe) 21-19, 21-16
Mixed doubles: Presley Smith-Jennie Gai (USA) bt Samuel Jones-Lizzie Tolman (Eng) 18-21, 21-18, 21-19; Alexander Dunn-Julie MacPherson (Sco) bt Kristofer Kolding-Mette Werge (Den) 21-12, 21-17; Liu Kuang Heng-Hsu Yin-Hui (Tpe) bt Julien Maio-Lea Palermo (Fra) 21-16, 21-15; Akira Koga-Natsu Saito (Jpn) bt Haruki Kawabe-Kokona Ishikawa (Jpn) 21-16, 21-17;
