Thailand’s Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai reached the women’s doubles semi-finals after defeating Apriyani Rahayu and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti 16-21, 21-17, 21-18 at the Indonesia Masters yesterday.
The fourth seeds Thais needed one hour and 24 minutes to finish off the seventh-seeded home players at the US$420,000 tournament in Jakarta.
In today’s last four, Jongkolphan and Rawinda take on China’s Liu Shengshu and Zhang Shuxian who defeated compatriots Tan Ning and Xia Yuting 21-15, 14-21, 21-8 in the quarter-finals of the Super 500 event.
In the women’s singles, sixth seed Yang Zhiyi was much too strong for Thailand’s…