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Badminton tournament of National Games kicks off
October-8-2009
Xinhua October 8, 2009
China's 11th National Games badminton tournament, with seven gold medals on stake, kicked off in Qingdao on Thursday.
As the biggest national badminton competition in China, the tourney attracts most big names like Lin Dan, Chen Jin, Bao Chunlai, Xie Xingfang, Yu Yang, who represents respective regional team.
In Thursday's first round of women's team competition, Guangdong nipped Fujian 3-0. Olympic runner-up and world No. 6 Xie Xingfang served as Guangdong's first singles player, beating Wang Yini 21-11, 21-7.
"I'm now back in good form,"said Xie after the match, who may retire after the National Games.
In the 3-1 victory that Zhejiang beat Hong Kong, the duel between current world No. 1-2 Wang Lin and and Zhou Mi was highlighted with the victory going to Wang 22-20, 20-15.
"I'm not physically well recently but I played well today. Though I lost to Wang Lin, I enjoyed the whole match,"said Zhou.
In other matches, Hunan beat Liaoning 3-0, Shanghai defeated Shandong 3-0, Hubei outlasted People's Liberation Army 3-1 and Jiangsu overcame Sichuan 3-0.
According to the competition schedule, two team events will be played from Oct 8 to 13 while five singles and doubles events are slated from Oct. 14 to 18.


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