VICTOR Korea Open 2010 - Yong Dae/Jae Sung headed for grudge match

Denmark’s Peter Gade also showed steely determination to score an emphatic three-game win over Korea’s Park Sung Hwan in a match that lasted 79 minutes.

In the women’s singles Sung Ju Hyun and Bae Seung Hee continued their brilliant run in the tournament when both players qualified for the semi-finals, at the expense of Netherlands’ Yao Jie and Hong Kong’s Yip Pui Yin respectively.

Chong Wei, the top seed, defeated Thailand's Boonsak Ponsana 21-14, 21-10 in 33 minutes but will be in for a real test when he takes on China’s World Championships silver medallist Chen Jin.

Chen Jin beat Vietnam’s Nguyen Tienh Minh 21-7, 21-19.

Gade, on the other hand, showed that it was dangerous to write him off as he came from behind to beat Park 17-21, 21-16, 22-20 to stay on track to defend his title.

Gade will once again have to make a quick recovery as he will be facing a ‘rested’ Chen Long in the semi-final. Chen Long was given a walk-over by his teammate Bao Chunlai.

Park’s exit, however, did not stop Ju Hyun and Seung Hee from marching into the semi-finals as both players raised their game to beat their more renowned opponents, and more importantly ensure one Korean will be in the women’s singles final as Seung Hee and Ju Hyun will square off against each other.

The second semi-final will be between Wang Shixian, the sole Chinese player left in the singles, against Korea’s Kim Moon Hi.

Local favourites Lee Yong Dae-Jung Jae Sung and China’s Cai Yun-Fu Haifeng are headed for a mouth-watering match in the final, five months after their epic match in the final of the World Championships in Hyderabad.

In Hyderabad, Cai-Fu won a nail-biting final to clinch the gold medal but the Koreans will be eager to exact revenge this time around.

Yong Dae-Jae Sung beat compatriots Kim Ki Jung-Shin Baek Cheol 21-14, 22-20 while Cai-Fu denied Denmark’s Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen a place in the last four.

Cai-Fu won 21-16, 15-21- 21-18 despite the Danes’ best efforts to vary their game. In the end, it was the Chinese’s greater consistency that proved to be the decisive factor.

In the semi-finals, Yong Dae-Jae Sung will take on China’s Chai Biao-Zhang Nan while Cai-Fu will play Japan’s Hiroyuki Endo-Yoshiteru Hirobe.

Results: (Q-Finals):

Men's Singles: Lee Chong Wei (Mas) bt Boonsak Ponsana (Tha) 21-14, 21-10; Chen Jin (Chn) bt Nguyen Tien Minh (Vie) 21-7, 21-19; Chen Long (Chn) w.o. Bao Chunlai (Chn); Peter Gade (Den) bt Park Sung Hwan (Kor) 17-21, 21-16, 22-20.

Women’s Singles: Sung Ju Hyun (Kor) bt Yao Jie (Ned) 21-17, 21-16; Bae Seung Hee (Kor) bt Yip Pui Yin (Hkg) 21-19, 21-10; Wang Shixian (Chn) bt Zhou Mi (Hkg) 21-18, 14-9 rtd; Kim Moon Hi (Kor) bt Chan Tsz Ka (Hkg) 21-13, 21-10.

Men’s doubles: Lee Yong Dae-Jung Jae Sung (Kor) bt Kim Ki Jung-Shin Baek Cheol (Kor) 21-14, 22-20; Cai Yun-Fu Haifeng (Chn) bt Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen (Den) 21-16, 15-21- 21-18; Chai Biao-Zhang Nan (Chn) bt Ko Sung Hyun-Yoo Yeon Seong (Kor) 21-12, 17-21, 21-14; Hiroyuki Endo-Yoshiteru Hirobe (Jpn) bt Alvent Yulianto-Hendra Gunawan (Ina) 21-14, 21-7.

Women’s doubles: Ha Jung Eun-Lee Kyung Won (Kor) bt Choi Hye In-Lee So Hee (Kor) 21-9, 21-3; Shu Cheng-Zhao Yunlei (Chn) bt Shizuka Matsuo-Mami Naito (Jpn) 21-9, 21-17; Jung Kyung Eun-Yoo Hyun Jung (Kor) bt Duanganong Aroonkesorn-Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (Tha) 21-13, 21-17; Mizuki Fujii-Reika Kakiiwa (Jpn) bt Misaki Matsutomo-Ayaka Takahashi (Jpn) 21-13, 21-14.

Mixed doubles: Tao Jiaming-Zhang Yawen (Chn) bt Thomas Laybourn-Kamilla Rytter Juhl (Den) 21-12, 21-15; Flandy Limpele-Cheng Wen hsing (Ina-Tpe) bt Songphon Anugritayawon-Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (Tha) 21-18, 21-16; He Hanbin-Yu Yang (Chn) bt Ko Sung Hyun-Ha Jung Eun (Kor) 21-10, 21-17; Noriyasu Hirata-Miyuki Maeda (Jpn) bt Sudket Prapakamol-Saralee Thoungthongkam (Tha) 21-19, 21-15.