Carolina Marín from Huelva fell this Sunday in the final of the Danish Open badminton after losing to the Chinese Chen Yu Fei, third seed and Olympic champion in Tokyo 2020, who won 21-14 and 21-19 in 51 minutes of party.
The Chinese player controlled the match from the beginning, with a game with great power and speed, which kept the Huelva player, sixth seed, always behind and prevented her from coming back from the clash, despite the fact that she was on the verge of forcing the match. third set after saving three match points.
Chen Yu Fei, 25 years old, resolved the first set in 22 minutes, in which Marín, Olympic champion in Rio 2016 and world runner-up, achieved an initial advantage after scoring six points in a row (3-6), which she then did not he was able to maintain and only recovered very timidly at the beginning of the second set.
Encouraged by the public, the Spanish was able to react in this one when she was 13-7 down with five points in a row to balance the game more (13-12), but Chen Yu Fei made few mistakes and took the set and the title later 29 minutes.
With the victory in Denmark, Chen Yu Fei leads Carolina Marín 5-3 in their matches, the last one last June in which she won the Indonesia Open. In 2023, the Chinese was also runner-up in the Asian Games and the "All England" Open.
Marín, 30, reached the final after having eliminated India's Sindhu Pusarla in the semifinals, a rival against whom she won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Games, and was chasing another title in 2023 after winning in the Orleans Masters and at the European Games in Krakow.
The Andalusian has been world champion three times (2014, 2015 and 2018) and European champion six times (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022).
He won his last continental title in April of last year, when he reappeared eleven months after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament and two menisci in his left knee that prevented him from competing in the Tokyo Games. In January 2019 he also suffered a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee.
