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Okimoto carved out a 15-21, 21-16, 21-11 win after a 89-minute encounter. It was his second career win over Lai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He had also beaten the Canadian top seed in their only previous meeting at the Korea Masters last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Okimoto will take on teammate Riki Takei in the final. Takei had overcome Malaysian ace Lee Zii Jia 21-13, 18-21, 21-18 in a gripping 70-minute semi-final match-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Takei, had lost to Zii Jia at the recent Australian Open in another three match encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Four-time champion and home favourite Li, was beaten in her women\u2019s singles semi-final tie with Japan\u2019s Riko Gunji. It was their first ever meeting but Gunji, ranked 21<sup>st<\/sup> in the world and seven rungs below her opponent, was in total control. She took just 37-minutes to beat Li 21-13, 21-17 and book a final appearance against Denmark\u2019s Line Christophersen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The second seeded Christophersen led 21-15, 8-3 when her semi-final opponent Zhang Beiwen of the USA retired injured. It was the Danes first win over Beiwen in six meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Christophersen had lost to Beiwen at both their clashes at the Malaysian Open and India Open earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It was double blow for Jennie Gai, who lost in both the mixed and women\u2019s doubles semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Taiwanese duo Liu Kuang Heng-Hsu Yin-Hui defeated Jennie and her partner Smith 9-21, 21-23. The winners take on Japan\u2019s Akira Koga-Natsu Saito, who beat Scotland\u2019s Alexander Dunn-Julie MacPherson 21-16, 12-21, 23-21, in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Jennie and Francesca Corbett bowed out tamely 12-21, 12-21 to Japan\u2019s Hinata Suzuki-Nao Yamakita in the women\u2019s doubles semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>SEMI-FINAL RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Men\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Riki Takei (Jpn) bt Lee Zii Jia (Mas) 21-13, 18-21, 21-18; Yudai Okimoto (Jpn) bt Victor Lai (Can) 15-21, 21-16, 21-11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Men\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Christian Faust Kjaer-Rasmus Kjaer (Den) bt Julian Maio-William Villeger (Fra) 21-14, 10-21, 21-13; Hiroki Okamura-Kyohei Yamashita (Jpn) bt Takuto Goto-Tsubasa Yoshida (Jpn) 21-16, 19-21, 21-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Women\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Line Christophersen (Den) bt Zhang Beiwen (USA) 21-15, 8-3 rtd; Riko Gunji (Jpn) bt Michelle Li (Can) 21-13, 21-17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Women\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Hinata Suzuki-Nao Yamakita (Jpn) bt Francesca Corbett-Jennie Gai (USA) 21-12, 21-12; Kaho Osawa-Mai Tanabe (Jpn) bt Lauren Lam-Alisson Quynh Lee (USA) 21-12, 21-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Mixed doubles: <\/strong>Liu Kuang Heng-Hsu Yin-Hui (Tpe) bt Presley Smith-Jennie Gai (USA) 21-9, 23-21; Akira Koga-Natsu Saito (Jpn) bt Alexander Dunn-Julie MacPherson (Sco) 21-16, 12-21, 23-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a day to forget for the top seeds at the Canada Open badminton championships at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13513,"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-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was a day to forget for the top seeds at the Canada Open badminton championships at the Markham Pan Am centre. 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