Vietnamese badminton star Nguyen Tien Minh won Bao Chunlai for the first time after he beat the Chinese player 21-18 21-15 yesterday at the Grand Prix Gold US Open 2011 in Los Angeles.
Nguyen Tien Minh
Minh, the world number 9 and the third seed, will progress to take on the world’s number 17 Marc Zwiebler of Germany, who knocked down the first seed Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia 2-0.
Tien Minh has never won Bao Chunlai in the four most recent games at Indonesia Super Series 2008, Japan Super Series 2009, Singapore Super Series 2009, and Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold 2011.