On the second day of the 2025 Sudirman Cup World Badminton Mixed Team Championships on the 28th, Xu Minqi overcame the disadvantage in the first game in the women's singles, defeated Michael Snelova 21:19, 21:10, and won the third set to help Chinese Taipei defeat the Czech Republic 3:0 and win the second consecutive victory in the group stage.
Xu Minqi
A total of 16 countries (regions) participated in this tournament, Chinese Taipei and South Korea, the Czech Republic, Canada in the same group, the top 2 can advance to the top 8, and in the past Chinese Taipei has advanced to the top 8 for 7 consecutive times, this time to fight to cross the curse, once again challenge the top 4, hope not to return empty-handed.
Chinese Taipei won 4:1 Canada on the first day of the group stage, won 3:0 against the Czech Republic on the second day, and took a break on the 29th, and will face off with South Korea, which is also a two-game winning streak, at 5 pm on Wednesday, to decide who can advance to the top 8 with the first group.
The Chinese Taipei team was led by mixed doubles Ye Hongwei/Hu Ayafang, who won 21:18, 25:23, and then Lin Junyi, the "left-handed heavy artillery" who served as the second point of the men's singles, defeated Jan Louda 21:12, 21:18, and won three consecutive matches to help the Chinese Taipei team lead 2:0.
World No. 23 Xu Minqi played in the third set of the women's singles, facing the world No. 121 Micha Snelova, this was the first meeting between the two sides, Xu Minqi met an unfamiliar opponent, until the technical timeout to take the lead for the first time, although then fell behind due to mistakes, fortunately she relied on the net diagonal attack at 17:19, and then forced the opponent to return the ball out of bounds, and won four points in a row to take the lead at 21:19.
Xu Minqi, who had a hot hand, pulled out a beautiful start of 6:2 after changing sides, and then entered a technical timeout at 11:5, and finally played more and more smoothly, without letting the opponent have any chance to catch up, winning 21:10 and winning the third set.
Chinese Taipei defeated the Czech Republic in advance after winning the first three sets, but regardless of the victory or defeat, each group stage match will be played in five sets, with Chinese Taipei switching to Lee Zhehui in the fourth set of Men's Doubles by Chiu Xiang-hwan and Zhang Ching-hui/Yang Jingdun in the fifth set of Women's Doubles.