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Tien Minh entered the quarter-final match a heavy favourite as he had trounced the Kong Hong rival Wei Nan in 2012

Tien Minh won the first set with a convincing score of 21-16, and then faced two consecutive losses in the second and third sets (20-22 and 15-21).

The Vietnamese star player placed second at last year’s competition in Taiwan.

Tien Minh’s unsuccessful performance at the ongoing event is most certain to drop him out of the world’s top 20 in the upcoming Badminton World Federation (BWF) ratings.

Information from BWF

中華台北羽毛球黃金大獎賽展開了正賽的第二個比賽日的爭奪，比賽中，林丹攜手王睜茗連過兩關晉級八強，女單韓利和劉鑫並進，女雙頭號於洋/王曉理也過關。

七號种子林丹和二號种子王睜茗都有著不俗的發揮，雙雙擊退對手，攜手晉級八強。林丹在第二輪的對手是馬來西亞選手吳順發，林丹沒有遇到太多的抵抗就以兩個21-16勝出，晚間林丹再次出戰，又輕鬆地以21-9和21-17的比分將中國香港選手譚進希斬落馬下。王睜茗也不甘落後，他先是以21-12和21-9的比分擊敗了芬蘭選手伊圖，隨後又以21-17和21-18的比分戰勝了中國香港選手黃永棋。