Thailand’s Supanida Katethong reached the women’s singles semi-finals of the US$210,000 Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters at Nimibutr Stadium yesterday.
The home star, ranked No.25 in the world, comfortably beat No.47 Sim Yu-Jin of South Korea in 33 minutes in the quarter-finals of the Super 300 tournament.
She meets seventh seed Zhang Yiman of China in the last four today.
The world No.18 Chinese defeated Taiwan’s Pai Yu-po 21-16, 22-20 in the last eight.
Fourth seed Han Yue of China defeated sixth seed Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt of Denmark 21-13, 21-10.
She will next face Taiwan’s Hsu Wen-chi who upset eighth seed Im Ga-eun of South Korea 17-21,…
