Nguyen Thuy Linh won the opening match in Thailand

The climax of the match was at the end of the third game. Thuy Linh is very close to victory when leading 20-16 and has three match-points. But she repeatedly made mistakes to let the opponent lead 21-20. However, the number one seed of the women's singles was not dismayed, saved the match-point, removed 21-21 and then won 24-22, winning the right to go through after 1 hour and 11 minutes of competition on the field. number one match.

Thuy Linh once met Widjaja Stephanie in the 2018 Bangladesh Internaltional Challenge. At that time, the Vietnamese player lost the first game but came upstream in the next two games. The scenario repeats when the two players face each other at Thailand International Challenge 2023 today. Thuy Linh also lost 16-21 hands before the 92nd ranked racket in the world, 42 places behind her, in the first game but won the second game quickly 21-10.

In the second round, Thuy Linh will meet the winner of the match between Ciou-Tong Tung and Singh Mansi. In the women's content, besides Thuy Linh, Vietnam also has Vu Thi Trang and Vu Thi Anh Thu. However, both stopped in the qualifying round on March 7.

In the men's singles, Vietnam has three players. Nguyen Tien Minh and Le Duc Phat lost in the first round, only Nguyen Hai Dang defeated Sen Chirag 18-21, 22-20 and 21-8 to win the right to enter the second round against 8th seed Koga Minoru.

Thuy Linh was born on November 20, 1997, won a gold medal at the national youth badminton championship at the age of 17. In 2018, she usurped the number one position in Vietnam of senior Vu Thi Trang. In 2020, thanks to the 42nd place in the world, the female tennis player from Phu Thi was represented in Vietnam at the 2021 Olympics - where she won two, lost one and finished second in the group stage.