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Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Badminton - Mixed Doubles - Bronze medal match - MFS - Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan – July 30, 2021. Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino of Japan celebrate after winning their match against Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet of Hong Kong. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
July 30, 2021
By Richa Naidu
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan won its first-ever mixed-doubles bronze medal on Friday when Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, who have played together for a decade, took out Hong Kong’s Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet 21-17 23-21 in a tight match.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Badminton - Mixed Doubles - Bronze medal match - MFS - Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan â July 30, 2021. Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino of Japan celebrate after winning their match against Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet of Hong Kong. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
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TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - China, who have yet to lose a single badminton match to another nation at the Tokyo Olympics, won gold and silver in mixed doubles on Friday after Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping beat favourites Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong 21-17 17-21 21-19.
For over an hour, the four players who regularly train with one another put on a show of sharp drop shots, solid smashes and lengthy rallies.