{"id":241274,"date":"2026-01-16T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:57:08","slug":"loh-kean-yew-beats-kunlavut-vitidsarn-in-three-sets-to-make-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241274\/","title":{"rendered":"Loh Kean Yew beats Kunlavut Vitidsarn in three sets to make semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loh Kean Yew came through a thrilling men&#8217;s singles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/badminton\/\" 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Open 2026 badminton: Loh Kean Yew beats Kunlavut Vitidsarn in three sets to make semi-final&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-badminton\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-male\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-sg\\&quot;,\\&quot;asia-editorial\\&quot;,\\&quot;kunlavut-vitidsarn\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;India Open 2026 badminton: Loh Kean Yew beats Kunlavut Vitidsarn in three sets to make semi-final&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;india-open-2026-badminton-loh-kean-yew-beats-kunlavut-vitidsarn&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-badminton&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;BDM&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">badminton<\/a> quarter-final at the India Open 2026 on Friday (16 January), beating Thailand&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/kunlavut-vitidsarn\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/jonatan-christie\" 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Open 2026 badminton: Loh Kean Yew beats Kunlavut Vitidsarn in three sets to make semi-final&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-badminton\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-male\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-sg\\&quot;,\\&quot;asia-editorial\\&quot;,\\&quot;kunlavut-vitidsarn\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;India Open 2026 badminton: Loh Kean Yew beats Kunlavut Vitidsarn in three sets to make semi-final&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;india-open-2026-badminton-loh-kean-yew-beats-kunlavut-vitidsarn&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-badminton&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;BDM&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonatan Christie<\/a> in Saturday&#8217;s semi-final after the Indonesian beat France&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/christo-popov\" 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Malaysia Open champion and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/paris-2024\" 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affair.<\/p>\n<p>Lengthy energy-sapping rallies dominated the first game, with the 2023 world champion Vitidsarn needing just one chance to close it out.<\/p>\n<p>The second game saw Loh take more initiative to edge 11-7 ahead prior to the mid-game interval, while a turning point came shortly after when Loh took a time out for medics to check an injury. Revitalised, Loh stormed to 21-15 to take the match to a decider.<\/p>\n<p>Toe to toe throughout the third game, the pair smiled at each other across the net after an epic 79-shot rally in the latter stages, taking Loh into a lead of 19-16 from which\u00a0Vitidsarn could not recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loh Kean Yew came through a thrilling men&#8217;s singles badminton quarter-final at the India Open 2026 on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-241274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}