{"id":10419,"date":"2026-03-11T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:09:58","slug":"zii-jia-and-anthony-make-the-main-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/zii-jia-and-anthony-make-the-main-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Zii Jia and Anthony make the main draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting and Malaysian Lee Zii Jia, both continuing to rebuild their badminton comebacks from injuries are through to the main draw of the Swiss Open badminton championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony battled through a three-game opening contest against China\u2019s Zhu Xuanchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist won 16-21, 22-20, 21-10 to seal victory after just under an hour of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He faces a tough challenge from Taiwanese Wang Tzu Wei in the first round of the main draw,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zii Jia, the Paris Olympics bronze medallist produced a confident performance to defeat Japan\u2019s Koga Minoru 21-14, 21-10 in just 27-minutes in his opening qualification match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the next round Zii Jia beat Ditlev Holm of Denmark in a hard-fought match, 21-17, 19-21, 21-16 and book his place in the main draw. The Malaysian shuttler wil play Singapore\u2019s Jason The Jia Heng in the opening main draw tie and will relish his<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also through to the main draw were China\u2019s Hu Zhean and Israeli Danii Dubovenko and Belgium\u2019s Julien Carraggi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, there were a number of upsets in opening round of the men\u2019s doubles competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second seeds Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen were shown the exit by the French duo of Adam Eloi-Rossi Leo, with the latter winning 19-21, 21-18, 22-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also suffering a first round shock were Indonesian upstarts \u2013 Raymond Indra, Nikolaus Joaquin. The fourth seeds were beaten 17-21, 17-21 by the Taiwanese pairing of Chen Cheng Kuan-Lin Bing-Wei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty of India, who were shown an early exit at the All-England last week, opened accounts with a hard-earned 21-19, 21-19 win over Singapore\u2019s Wesley Koh Eng Keat-Kubo Junsuke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting and Malaysian Lee Zii Jia, both continuing to rebuild their badminton comebacks from injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-10419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm.jpg",1066,615,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm-300x173.jpg",300,173,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm-768x443.jpg",640,369,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm-1024x591.jpg",640,369,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm.jpg",1066,615,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm.jpg",1066,615,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/newsbeat\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lee-Zii-Jia-vs-Ditlev-Jaeger-Holm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}