Chinese Taipei women's player Lin Xiangti defeated the world's No. 4 national feather player Han Yue 21:19, 7:21, 21:19 at the Super 300 Series 2025 Orleans Badminton Masters in France on the 5th, and advanced to the top 16 of the women's singles in an upset.

Chinese Taipei women's player Lin Xiangti

World No. 38 Lin Xiangti finished runner-up at the Macau Open last year, but she has yet to make a debut in the first three tournaments of the year. As for Han Yue's good condition last year, she won the runner-up in the year-end finals, and at the same time won 2 championships in the Super Series, and now she is the second sister of the national feather women's singles, and the world ranking is second only to Wang Zhiyi, who is ranked 2nd.

Lin Xiangti played against Han Yue at the Kumamoto Masters in Japan last year and lost in straight sets. On the 5th, he met the third seed of the conference in France, Lin Xiangti seized the opportunity in the first game and entered the timeout with an 11:4 lead.

Han Yue, ranked No. 4 in the world, launched a counterattack in the second game, extending the lead all the way and pulling back a city. Entering the deciding game, Lin Xiangti gained the upper hand first, but after changing sides, Han Yue chased it into an 11:11 draw, Lin Xiangti was not overtaken by the opponent and responded with a wave of 5:0 offensive, even if Han Yue chased to 19:20, but directly slapped the ball back to the net, and finally Lin Xiangti took 56 minutes to take away the victory.

It is worth mentioning that Lai Jiancheng, the coach of Chinese Taipei's first sister Tai Tzu Ying, is currently the singles coach of the Chinese Taipei team, and this time he also sat in Lin Xiangti's coach's seat to supervise the army, and also became the behind-the-scenes hero of Lin Xiangti's overthrow of strong opponents. The signing table shows that Lin Xiangti will face off against Riko of Japan's gun in the round of 16.