The 24-year-old Yufei and her teammates came up short in the 2018 edition in Palembang, Jakarta when they settled for silver after losing 1-3 to Japan in the women’s team final. Yufei also failed to go beyond the quarter-finals after losing to Akane Yamaguchi in the women’s singles.
World No. 2 Yufei admitted that competing on her home ground excites her and will not put herself under undue pressure to meet her fans’ expectations.“Home fans will certainly hope that I can achieve a good result, but I will try not to care too much about what the others think and focus on preparing well to put up a good fight.“However, I believe that the process is more important,” said Yufei.
Yufei showed she is heading in the right direction after reaching the semi-finals in the Malaysian Open. She defeated Spain’s Carolina Marin 21-18, 21-19 in the quarter-finals at the Axiata Arena yesterday. She will face An Se-young of South Korea today, who defeated China’s Wang Zhiyi 21-17, 16-21, 21-19 in another quarter-final match.Yufei’s only defeat to Se-young was in the Malaysian Masters last year, and it was in a straight game.
“Winning today’s match was an affirmation for myself, but I made quite a lot of mistakes and I struggled to focus.“The previous record could not be used as the standard to determine the winner ... besides, I lost to her in the same venue last year.”
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