Kim Ga-eun (Samsung Life), a member of the Korean badminton team for the 2024 Paris Olympics, has finished her journey in the round of 16. On
the 2nd (Korean time), Kim Ga-eun lost 1-2 (4-21 21-8 21-23) to Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (8th, Indonesia) in the round of 16 of the badminton women’s singles held at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena in Paris, France.
With this, Kim Ga-eun suffered a bitter defeat in the round of 16, and Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life) is the only Korean player left in the women’s singles. Ahn Se-young has advanced to the quarterfinals by winning the round of 16 with a bye.
Kim Ga-eun from Ulsan was a promising prospect since childhood. After playing for the national team by age group, she was selected for the national team for the first time in her third year of high school.
She is tall and has long arms, so she covers a wide range, and she has also achieved results in international competitions with her strong attacks that are half-beat faster.
However, compared to her skills, she has a weak mentality, so when the game is not going well, she often loses focus. Because of this, she has been limited to the role of Ahn Se-young’s ‘second-in-command’ both on her team and on the national team.
In this Paris tournament, she advanced to the round of 16 with two consecutive wins in the group preliminaries, but she failed to overcome the wall of Toonjung in the first match of the tournament. Kim Ga-eun, who lost to Japan’s Yamaguchi Akane in the round of 16 at the Tokyo tournament three years ago, bowed her head in the round of 16 for the second consecutive Olympics. Kim Ga-eun did not show any real strength in the first game. She frowned as if she was frustrated when she was greatly behind 3-18. Kim Ga-eun, who won 21-8 in the second game and brought the match back to square one, put her life on the line in the third game. The third game was a close match. The two players continued to go back and forth. When Tunjung ran away, Kim Ga-eun chased, and when Kim Ga-eun took the lead, Tunjung quickly caught up. In the end, the match went to a 21-21 deuce. However, Tunjung was the final winner. Kim Ga-eun lost after making two consecutive errors. 바카라사이트