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Tontowi and Liliyana march to finals
Mixed doubles pair Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir have advanced to the Denmark Open Super Series badminton championship after beating Ricky Widianto and Puspita Richi Dili in an all-Indonesian semifinal match in Odense on Saturday
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ixed doubles pair Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir have advanced to the Denmark Open Super Series badminton championship after beating Ricky Widianto and Puspita Richi Dili in an all-Indonesian semifinal match in Odense on Saturday.
Tontowi and Liliyana won 21-10, 21-15 to set up a final match against either Xu Chen/Ma Jin or Liu Cheng/Bao Yixin, the Chinese pairs playing their semifinal match later on that day.
Tontowi and Lilayana are Indonesia's only representatives fighting for honor following the exits of men's doubles pairs Gideon Markus Fernaldi/Markis Kido and Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan on Friday.
Gideon/Kido lost to top seeds Lee Yong-dae/Yoo Yeon-seong of South Korea 21-10, 22-20 while Ahsan/Hendra went down to Fu Haifeng/Zhang Nan of China 17-21, 21-19, 21-11.
In another match, Chen Long continued Chinese domination of the tournament by securing a place in the men's singles final by defeating Kashyap Parupalli of India 21-16, 21-15.
His compatriots took to the court later but the team was already assured places in the finals with them being paired against each other in the mixed doubles, women's doubles and women's singles semifinals.
