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India’s Kiran George dished out one more gritty efficiency to upset third seed Chi Yu Jen of Chinese language Taipei in a tricky three-game match and progress to the boys’s singles quarterfinals of the Korea Masters badminton event in Iksan Metropolis, Korea on Thursday. The 24-year-old Indian overcame his Chinese language Taipei opponent, ranked 31 on this planet, 21-17 19-21 21-17 in a second spherical match that lasted one hour and quarter-hour. World quantity 44 George will play fifth seed Takuma Obayashi of Japan within the last-eight spherical. Earlier additionally, George needed to dig deep to defeat Vietnam’s Kuan Lin Kuo 15-21 21-12 21-15 within the opening spherical of the BWF Tremendous 300 event.
George, the lone Indian shuttler competing within the event, began brightly and all the time had his nostril forward of his Chinese language Taipei rival within the opening sport to ultimately take the lead.
Within the second sport, George continued in the identical vein and loved early lead earlier than Jen bounced again to attract stage.
However the Indian returned to his components within the decider and raced to 8-2 lead earlier than his opponent slowly and steadily clawed his manner again to stage issues at 14-14 after which to 17-17.
However from there on, it was George who took management of the proceedings to seal his quarterfinal berth.
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