Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen is through to the last 16 at the European Badminton Championships after beating Azerbaijan’s Ade Resky Dwicahyo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner, who is seeded sixth in the men’s singles at the championships in Huelva, Spain, dominated the first game 21-8.<\/p>\n
The two-time Olympian then finished the job in a second game of the best-of-three format that proved much closer, winning out 22-20.<\/p>\n
Nguyen will now face Finland’s Kalle Koljonen in the round of 16 on Thursday with a quarter-final spot at stake.<\/p>\n
In the women’s singles, Sophia Noble exited at the round of 32 stage after losing 21-18 27-25 to Bulgaria’s Stefani Stoeva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen is through to the last 16 at the European Badminton Championships after beating Azerbaijan’s Ade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-388703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}