SEA Games 2023: PH badminton ends medal drought as women’s team shines
Photograph from Philippine Badminton Affiliation
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine ladies’s nationwide badminton group secured not less than a bronze on the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games on Monday at Morodok Techo Badminton Corridor.
The group superior to the semifinals on the expense of Malaysia, 3-0.
It marked the primary time that the Philippines assured itself of a medal in badminton because the 2015 Video games in Singapore the place Ronel Estanislao and Joper Escueta bagged the boys’s double bronze.
Bianca Carlos booked the Philippines a semifinals berth with a 21-16, 21-18 win over 18-year-old Siri Nurshuhaini within the second singles’ match.
Mika De Guzman, earlier, pulled off an in depth 24-22, 21-18 determination over Tan Zhing Yi to place the Filipinas on the board first earlier than the duo of Thea Pomar and Alyssa Leonardo outlasted Low Yeen Yuan and Valeree Siow 22-20, 19-21, 24-22 for a commanding 2-0 lead.
The lads’s aspect, nonetheless, was not as lucky.
Singapore’s Hee Yong Kai Terry and Nge Joo Jie booted out Solomon Padiz Jr. and Julius Villabrille from medal rivalry, 13-21, 21-19, 21-18.
The medal possibilities already appeared bleak for the boys’s group at the beginning of the day when Loh Kean Yew swept Jewel Angelo Albo, 21-14, 21-13.
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