South Korea’s men’s badminton team ended its Asian Games campaign with a bronze medal.
South Korea fell 2-3 to India in the men’s team badminton quarterfinals at Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, on Tuesday. The Koreans fell short of advancing to the final after back-to-back victories over Malaysia in the quarterfinals and Indonesia in the semifinals.
The team event is played in the order of singles-doubles-singles-doubles-doubles-singles, and the match, which started at 5 p.m. local time, ended at 10:10 p.m., more than five hours later.
First up was world No. 47 Jeon Hyuk-jin (Yonex), who dropped a close 1-2 (21-18 16-21 19-21) decision to world No. 7 H.S. Prannoy. After exchanging the first and second sets, Jeon took a 16-13 lead in the third set but was pushed back to 17-20 by his opponent. Then, at 19-20, a push attack went off the court.
The second pair, Seo Seung Jae-Kang Min Hyuk (Samsung Life – World No. 4), defeated World No. 3 Satwikseraj Lankireddy-Chirag Shetty 2-0 (21-13 26-24). The third 토토 and fourth matches were won by India and South Korea respectively. With the match tied at 2-2, world No. 163 KIM Sang-yup (Seongnam City Hall) stepped up as the fifth player, but fell 1-2 (21-12 16-21 14-21) to world No. 21 Kidambi Srikanth.