First defeat for World No.1 at this year’s BWF World Superseries in Dubai
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/12/14
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The world’s No.1 woman badminton player, Tai Tzu-ying (戴資
Tai Tzu-ying earlier this year. (By Central News Agency)
穎), lost for the first time at the BWF World Superseries in Dubai Thursday, to No.6-ranked Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand.
The 23-year-old from Kaohsiung became a star in her native Taiwan after participating in the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade last August.
At the World Superseries, she unexpectedly lost 18-21, 17-21 to her Thai rival, less than 24 hours after defeating Chen Yufei of China.
In the All England Open final last March, Tai still defeated Ratchanok, but in Dubai, she pushed her first game until the score was 17-18, but she failed to improve on the situation. [FULL STORY]