In the 2025 Sudirman Cup, An Seying ushered in her comeback debut and helped South Korea lock in the quarterfinals ahead of schedule

The Korean badminton national team under the command of new head coach Park Joo-bong easily advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Sudirman Cup World Badminton Mixed Team Championship. South Korea defeated Canada 4-1 in the second match of Group B of the 2025 Sudirman Cup group stage held in Xiamen, China on the 28th.

South Korea's world's first sister Ahn Se-ying

In the first match of the group stage, South Korea defeated the Czech Republic 4-1, and after beating Canada, South Korea won two consecutive victories to qualify for the quarterfinals of this Soviet Cup.

The Sudirman Cup is played in the order of Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles, with the first side to win three sets to win. Even if you grab 3 wins, you must play 5 sets. In the first set of the day's men's singles, South Korea's Jeon Hyuk-jin lost 0-2, but the women's singles "world's strongest" Ahn Se Young defeated her opponent 2-0 to bring the match back to square one.

As of last month's All England Open Badminton Championships, An Seying has achieved four consecutive international championships this year, and due to a thigh muscle strain, she missed the previous badminton Asian Championships to concentrate on recovery, and successfully made a comeback in this year's Su Cup. South Korea's Kang Min Hyuk/Ki Dong Joo and Women's Doubles Kim Hye Jung/Kong Hee Yong, who have shown overwhelming athleticism on their comeback debut, took over the baton from Ahn Se Young, who made their comeback debut, helping the team seal the win in one set early.

According to the schedule, the South Korean team will compete with Chinese Taipei for the first place in the group in the final game of the group stage on the 30th. In this year's Su Cup, in addition to the weak strength of the men's singles (in the first two games of the group stage of this Su Cup, the Korean men's singles lost in a row without scoring points), there are the world's top 3 players or combinations in the rest of the individual events, as well as the world champion to help, and has won 4 championships this season The world's "first sister" An Xiying, they are still the number one rival on the road to the national feather championship. Park Joo-bong, the new head coach of the South Korean team, even said before the game that the South Korean team will regain the championship after 8 years.