Attention is focusing on the showdown between Ahn Se-young and Kim Ga-eun in the Korean 女's singles at the Inni Open!
Attention is focusing on the showdown between Ahn Se-young and Kim Ga-eun in the Korean 女's singles at the Inni Open!
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Attention is focusing on the showdown between Ahn Se-young (23, Samsung Life, No. 1 in the world) and Kim Ga-eun (27, Samsung Life, No. 22) of the national badminton team at the Indonesia Open 2025.
Ahn Se-young and Kim Ga-eun will face each other in the round of 16 of the women's singles on the third day of the tournament at Istora Senayan in Jakarta on the 5th (Korea time). The winner will meet the winner of the Pompawi Chuchu Wong (Thailand, 8th) and Pusala V. Sindhu (India, 21st) match in the quarterfinals.
It is a showdown between players who are leading the Korean women's singles. The match took place in about a year and a half since the first Group A match of the Badminton World Federation Tour Finals in Hangzhou, China on Dec. 13, 2023. Kim Ga-eun won the match 2-0 (21-18 21-18).
Ahn is ahead of Ahn in performance and skills, but his overall opponent team is tight with four wins and four losses. Ahn Se-young, who puts defense and stable game management at the forefront, and Kim Ga-eun, who is strong in cool attack, always competed fiercely. Hot games are expected again this time.
Stories outside the court draw attention as well as stories behind the game. Ahn Se-young and Kim Ga-eun have been wearing the national flag since 2017 and 2016, respectively. Samsung Life Insurance is also close to each other since 2021.
She also openly expressed her affection and respect for each other. She was the first to visit Kim Ga-eun when she won two gold medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games (women's singles and women's team events) and the women's singles gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. "She is my junior, but she is always an exemplary colleague. She is superior to me, so I acknowledge her and work hard to become world-class together," Kim said.
The two are singles players who have to stand alone on the court, but they also showed off strong teamwork in team events. Ahn Se-young and Kim Ga-eun shined together at the Uber Cup 2022 and the women's team event at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, where they won gold medals in 12 years and 28 years, respectively. Korea was able to smile as the two played their part in the first and third singles matches.
"Factivists train in small groups and spend a lot of time together. (Ahn) and (Kim) Ga-eun are close like real sisters," a Samsung Life Insurance source said. "Gae-eun has a lot of injuries recently, but she will likely cheer up more against her. It will be an interesting game." 바카라