Brian Yang of Toronto, Ontario achieved one of the greatest feats of his badminton career on Sunday. He reached the final of the 2024 Indonesian Masters before losing to Anders Antonsen of Denmark 18:21, 21:13, 21:18. For Yang, it was his first ever medal in the history of the Badminton World Federation World Tour.
Yang reached the final as an unseeded player. Yang, ranked 32nd in the world heading into the Indonesian Masters, shocked the badminton world with a massive upset in the first round. He beat Li Shifeng of China 21-18, 14-21, 23-21. Li was the second-ranked player in Indonesia, has won three BWF World Tour events and is a gold medalist at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. One of the BWF events Li won was the 2019 Canadian Open in Calgary, Alberta, where Li defeated Parupali Kashyap of India in the final 20-22, 21-14, 21-17.
After Yang’s victory over Li, Yang defeated Priyanshu Rajawat of India 21-18, 21-14 in the second round, Zil Jia Lee of Malaysia in the quarterfinals (Lee retired after losing the first set 21-14 due to food poisoning ). Malaysia The star) and then stunned third seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia 13-21, 21-17, 21-19 in the semifinals. Ginting won the bronze medal for Indonesia in the men’s singles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021. The silver medal at the Indonesian Masters will give Yang confidence as he prepares for the 2020 Olympics 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
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