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Patna : Reigning World Champion and top seed Kento Momota, 24, Japan, will face reigning Olympic Champion Chen Long, 30, China, the 5th seed, in the men’s singles semi-finals of Victor China Open, an HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1,000 event, at Changzhou, China, on September 21, 2019.
World No 1 Momota beat World No 17 Kanta Tsuneyama, Japan, 21-11, 21-8 in 36 minutes in the quarter-finals at Olympic Sports Center Gynasium, Changzhou, China, on September 20, 2019. World No 5 Chen Long beat World No 11 NG Ka Long Angus, Hong Kong, 21-13, 21-13 in 45 minutes in QFs.
World No 4 Tai Tzu Ying, Taiwan, and World No 2 Chen Yu Fei, China, have also reached women’s singles SFs of China Open.