Incheon Asian Games: Son, Lee/Yoo Toast Team Success

2014-09-29

2014 Asian Games | Sep 24-29 | Incheon, Korea

Final day notes & results
Lin Dan tops Lee Chong Wei. Indonesia bags two gold medals in doubles. Korean men celebrate third team gold. 2014 Asian Games medal table:
 
Team
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Men's
Team

China

Malaysia
Women's
Team

China

Japan
Individual
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Men's
Singles
Lin Dan

Chen Long
HKG
Wei Nan

Lee Chong Wei
Women's
Singles
Wang Yihan

Li Xuerui
Men's
Doubles

Hendra Setiawan
Mohammed Ahsan

Goh V Shem
Tan Wee Kiong
Women's
Doubles

Nitya Krishinda Maheswari
Greysia Polii

Misaki Matsutomo
Ayaka Takahashi

Woon Khe Wei
Vivian Hoo Kah Mun
Tian Qing
Zhao Yunlei
Mixed
Doubles

Zhang Nan
Zhao Yunlei
Praveen Jordan
Debby Susanto
Xu Chen
Ma Jin

"Victory Number": 3
Men’s Korean team celebrated their third Asian Games triumph (1986, 2002, 2014). Son Wan Ho robbed the crucial first point of World Champion Chen Long, and Lee Yong Dae/Yoo Yeon Seong followed up for a second win, before veteran and two-time Olympic semifinalist Lee Hyun Il rose to the occasion and enabled the host team to claim the final victory, beating China’s third singles Gao Huan.
 
Son Wan Ho
Son Wan Ho defeated Chen Long to take the first singles point for Korea in the Team final.

Player of the week
World No.7 Son Wan Ho, in front of a vocal home crowd, gave Korea a confidence booster by powering through reigning World Champion Chen Long in the battle of first singles in Men’s Team Final against China, allowing just 5 points in the first game before winning 21-5 22-24 21-14. Korea finally secured the gold medal through a deciding fifth rubber.

Battle of the week
Mixed doubles third seeds Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir fought off an early deficit to eliminate Shin Baek Choel and Chang Ye Na 19-21 21-16 21-9 in the quarterfinal match that saw Natsir throw in a variety of beautiful net play to open the deciding game and eventually win to guarantee a medal.

VICTOR STAR of the week 
20-year-old Tai Tzu Ying became the first Taiwanese woman ever to win a singles medal in the Asian Games. She took out local hope Sung Ji Hyun in the quarterfinals before losing to World No.1 Li Xuerui in three, taking home a bronze medal.
 
Tai Tzu Ying
Tai Tzu Ying is the first player from Taiwan to win an Asian Games medal in women's singles.
 

( Edit by VICTOR Badminton )