VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Nguyen Tien Minh was ousted from the Indonesia Open Superseries Premier after losing 10-21, 14-21 to world No 1 Lee Chong Wei in yesterday's quarter-final round in Jakarta.

It was his eighth failure against the Malaysian during their last nine meets, although this time Minh showed he had made progress.

After losing in the first set Minh came back strongly in the second when he took the lead 6-2 and then 10-5. However, it was not enough to defeat top seed Wei. The Malaysian took control by levelling the score at 11-11 and then went straight to the last point while Minh could only pocket three more.

In last year's tournament Minh was knocked out in the semi-final round 17-21, 12-21 by Indonesian former Olympics champion Taufik Hydayat.

In the next round, Wei will face seed No 4 Chen Long who won 21-14, 21-15 against Du Pengyu in an all-China second quarter-final round match.

In other actions yesterday, men's No 5 seed Peter Hoeg Gade beat seed No 3 Hydayat, 21-17, 21-15 and Chen Jin of China was defeated by Japanese Sho Sasaki 21-18, 12-21, 15-21.

On the women's side, China's Liu Xin, who was ranked No 5, was defeated by unknown Chinese Taipei Cheng Shao Chieh 17-21, 15-21. Chinese Jiang Yanjiao entered the semi-finals after crunching host Adrianti Firdasari 25-23, 21-19.

Later Wang Yihan of China won 23-21, 21-17 over Juliane Schenk of Germany while Indian No 4 Saina Nehwal hammered Dane representative seed 8 Tine Baun 21-19, 21-19.

The finals of the tournaments will be held tomorrow with the winners receiving total prizes of US$600,000.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News