Nguyen Thuy Linh faces 5-time European runner-up at 2025 World Badminton Championship

Kirsty Gilmour is the reigning European runner-up

Nguyen Thuy Linh is maintaining extremely high form in 2025. Most recently, Vietnam's No. 1 female tennis player caused a big surprise at the World Badminton Championship in Paris when she defeated No. 10 seed Ratchanok Intanon 2-0 (21-17, 21-18) to advance.

Entering the second round, Nguyen Thuy Linh will continue to face another veteran player, Kirsty Gilmour, who is currently ranked 31st in the world. Although she is 9 places behind Nguyen Thuy Linh, Kirsty Gilmour promises to create many difficulties for the Vietnamese star.

Kirsty Gilmour had a big win over Nguyen Thuy Linh at the Indonesia Open in June 2024 with a score of 2-0 (21-10, 21-18). The Scottish player is 31 years old this year but still plays persistently and continuously participates in major tournaments recently. Kirsty Gilmour is famous for her achievement of being the runner-up 5 times at the European Badminton Championship (2016, 2017, 2022, 2024 and 2025). In the 5 times she reached the final of this tournament, she lost to Spanish superstar Carolina Marín 4 times.

In the first round of the 2025 World Badminton Championship, Kirsty Gilmour easily defeated Fadilah Shamika of Uganda with a score of 2-0 (21-5, 21-12). With good physical strength and the ability to hit the shuttlecock very hard, Kirsty Gilmour is considered to be on par with Nguyen Thuy Linh in this match.

According to the schedule announced by the organizers, the match between Nguyen Thuy Linh and Kirsty Gilmour is the 13th match at Court 4 today, scheduled to take place at 19:10 local time (ie 00:10 on August 28, Vietnam time). This time will change depending on previous matches.