Thailand's Intanon Intanon, who holds one championship this season, lost to Japan's Natsuki Nihei 20:22 at the Super 300 Series 2025 Orleans Badminton Masters in France on the 5th.

Thailand's Intanon star

World No.9 Intanon has struggled to prove that she can play this season, reaching the semi-finals of the Super 1000 Series Malaysia Open Badminton Championships before being photographed by South Korea's World Championship Ahn Se Ying, who did not go all the way to the Indonesia Masters to win the title, but returned to her hometown Thailand Masters to unexpectedly miss the round of 16.

After a one-month hiatus, Intanon chose to start from Orleans, France, and the most important thing is to aim for the All England Open next week. It's just that Intanon faced the world's No. 24 Renping Natsuki on the same day, and missed 3 game points in the first game, but was reversed by Renping Natsuki. Intanon almost maintained the lead in the second game, and even came to 20:18, only 1 point short of extending the battle line, but unexpectedly was scored 4 points in a row by Renpei Natsuki, and finally swallowed the defeat in straight games.