Lee Zii Jia beats Ditlev Jaeger Holm
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.
Anthony battled through a three-game opening contest against China’s Zhu Xuanchen.
The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist won 16-21, 22-20, 21-10 to seal victory after just under an hour of play.
He faces a tough challenge from Taiwanese Wang Tzu Wei in the first round of the main draw,
Zii Jia, the Paris Olympics bronze medallist produced a confident performance to defeat Japan’s Koga Minoru 21-14, 21-10 in just 27-minutes in his opening qualification match.
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’s Jason The Jia Heng in the opening main draw tie and will relish his
Also through to the main draw were China’s Hu Zhean and Israeli Danii Dubovenko and Belgium’s Julien Carraggi.
Meanwhile, there were a number of upsets in opening round of the men’s doubles competition.
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.
Also suffering a first round shock were Indonesian upstarts – Raymond Indra, Nikolaus Joaquin. The fourth seeds were beaten 17-21, 17-21 by the Taiwanese pairing of Chen Cheng Kuan-Lin Bing-Wei.
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’s Wesley Koh Eng Keat-Kubo Junsuke.
