Top seed Chou Tien Chen is out of the Orleans Open badminton championships as the French duo of Alex Lanier and Toma Popov Junior storm into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former World and Asian junior champion Hu Zhean of China came back from a game down to beat Tien Chen 12-21, 21-18, 21-15 in the quarter-finals of the men\u2019s singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zhean, who had lost in the opening round of the Swiss Open earlier this month, battled hard for 77-minutes before overcoming the veteran Taiwanese. He will be up against fourth seeded Popov Junior in the semi-final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Popov Junior overcame a strong fight in the opening game before asserting his dominance over China\u2019s Dong Tuanyao 22-20, 21-13 in his quarter-final tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fellow Frenchman Lanier will play Japan\u2019s Yudai Okimoto in the other semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lanier picked up a clinical 21-14, 21-15 victory over Taiwanese Su Li Yang while Okimoto was equally impressive in his 21-12, 21-15 win over Denmark\u2019s Magnus Johannesen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India will have two representatives in the women\u2019s singles semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Youngster Tanvi Sharma picked up a shocking 21-14, 21-14 win over Japan\u2019s Natsuki Nidaira. Isharani Baruah made the semi-final cut after her teammate Malvika Bansod had retired trailing 9-21, 7-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Isharani will take on Okuhara in the semi-finals while Tanvi faces Thailand\u2019s Pitchamon Opatniputh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Thai lass had beaten seventh seeded Riko Gunji of Japan 21-19, 12-21, 21-16 after a grueling 70-minute quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Japan\u2019s Nozomi Okuhara is the highest seed still in the competition, having cruised past Vietnam\u2019s Nguyen Thuy Linh 21-18, 21-9 in her semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Toma Popov Junior (Fra) bt Dong Tianyao (Chn) 22-20, 21-13; Alex Lanier (Fra) bt Su Li Yang (Tpe) 21-14, 21-15; Hu Zhean (Chn) bt Chou Tien Chen (Tpe) 12-21, 21-18, 21-16; Yudai Okimoto (Jpn) bt Magnus Johannesen (Den) 21-12, 21-15<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Hu Keyuan-Lin Xiangyi (Chn) bt Kakeru Kumagai-Hiroki Nishi (Jpn) 12-21, 21-19, 21-9; Christian Faust Kjaer-Rasmus Kjaer (Den) bt Raymond Indra-Nikolaus Joaquin (Ina) 21-18, 12-21, 21-14; Leo Rolly Carnando-Bagas Maulana (Ina) bt Hariharan Amsakarunan-M.R. Arjun (Ind) 21-12, 22-20; Hiroki Okamura-Kyohei Yamashita (Jpn) bt Lao Po Yu-Tsai Fu Cheng (Tpe) 17-21, 21-19, 21-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Tanvi Sharma (Ind) bt Natsuki Nidaira (Jpn) 21-14, 21-14; Pitchamon Opatniputh (Tha) bt Riko Gunji (Jpn) 21-19, 12-21, 21-16; Nozomi Okuhara (Jpn) bt Nguyen Thuy Linh (Vie) 21-18, 21-8; Isharani Baruah (Ind) bt Malvika Bansod (Ind) 21-9, 15-7 rtd <\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Rachel Alessya Rose-Febi Setianingrum (Ina) bt Hsu Ya Ching-Sung Yu-hsuan (Tpe) 21-14, 21-15; Sumire Nakade-Miyu Takahashi (Jpn) bt Lauren Lam-Allison Quynh Lee (USA) 21-12, 21-14; Rui Hirokami-Sayaka Hobara (Jpn) bt Bao Lijing-Luo Xumin (Chn) 16-21, 26-24, 21-17; Lin Chih-chun-Yang Chu Yun (Tpe) bt Margot Lambert-Camille Pognante (Fra) 22-24, 21-14, 21-13 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mixed doubles: <\/strong>Yuta Watanabe-Maya Taguchi (Jpn) bt Liu Kuang Heng-Jheng Yu Chieh (Tpe) \u00a021-12, 21-15; Thom Gicquel-Delphine Delrue (Fra) bt Cheng Xing-Zhang Chi (Chn) 21-9, 21-23, 21-17; Ruben Garcia-Lucia Rodriguez (Esp) \u00a0bt Zhu Yijun-Li Qian (Chn) \u00a021-23, 23-21, 21-19; Mathias Christiansen-Alexandre Boje (Den) bt Amri Syahnawi-Nita Violina Marwah (Ina) 21-19, 21-16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Top seed Chou Tien Chen is out of the Orleans Open badminton championships as the French duo of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10782,"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-10781","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\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1.jpg",2023,1138,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1.jpg",2023,1138,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chou-Tien-Chen-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","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=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10784,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}