South Korea Tournament" Wang Baiwei resolved the last two points of the match and fought hard for 91 minutes to reverse the world's 10th Indonesian player and advance to the top 8

[Reporter Wu Mengru/Comprehensive Report] The 24-year-old Turkish silver player Wang Baiwei spent 1 hour and 31 minutes in the second round of the men's singles of the Super 500 Series South Korea Open today. He successfully resolved two late match points in the second game and reversed the world's 10th-ranked Indonesian star Alwi Farhan 17:21, 25:23, 21:15 and advanced to the top 8 of the men's singles.

Farhan, the fourth seed in Indonesia, won the Indonesian Super 500 Series and the Australian Open Super 300 Series this year, and led Indonesia to win the men's team gold medal and men's singles bronze medal at the Nagoya Asian Games. As for Wang Baiwei, ranked 45th in the world, he won a Super 100 Series Indonesia Badminton Masters championship this season.

Wang Baiwei surrendered at 17:21 in the first game, but regrouped in the second game and took the lead at 20:18. Unexpectedly, he could not score key points, allowing Farhan to catch up. However, he successfully resolved two late match points and saved the day when he fell behind at 22:23. He first relied on a strong attack in front of the net, and then forced his opponent to hang the net and go out of bounds. He scored 3 points in a row to regain the victory at 25:23.

The two were still ahead of each other in the early stages of the final period, but Wang Baiwei attacked more strongly and took a 12:6 lead. Although he was close to the score by Farhan, he stabilized his position at 17:15, first counterattacked in front of the net to grab points, and then used a kill to widen the point difference. He successfully built momentum and scored 4 points in a row to close the door and win the top 8 tickets. His opponent will be the winner of the battle between China's Hu Zhe'an and Hong Kong's Lee Cheuk-yiu.