L-R: China’s He Jiting, Ren Xiangyu, Ou Xuanyi and Liu Yuchen rejoice on the rostrum after their males’s doubles last throughout the BWF Japan Masters in Kumamoto, Japan, November 19, 2023. /CFP
L-R and top-bottom: China’s Zhang Shuxian, Zheng Yu, Tan Ning and Liu Shengshu rejoice on the rostrum after their ladies’s doubles last throughout the BWF Japan Masters in Kumamoto, Japan, November 19, 2023. /CFP
Zheng Siwei (L) and Huang Yaqiong of China win combined doubles title on the BWF Japan Masters in Kumamoto, Japan, November 19, 2023. /CFP
China took the boys’s, ladies’s and combined doubles titles, whereas Shi Yuqi and Chen Yufei clinched the silvers in singles occasions respectively throughout the Japan Masters badminton competitors on Sunday.
In the boys’s doubles last, Chinese pair He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu defeated compatriots Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi 21-14, 15-21, 21-15 to win their first championship this 12 months.
In the all-Chinese ladies’s doubles last, Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu took a 12-21, 21-12, 21-17 win over the newly topped French Open champions Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning to win the title. Liu and Tan edged out a Thai pair to clinch the French Open title on October 29.
Chinese pair Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong triumphed within the combined doubles last with a 25-23, 21-9 win over Feng Yanzhe and Huang Yaping, additionally from China, to bag their fourth Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour champion of the season.
Viktor Axelsen (L) of Denmark and Shi Yuqi of China rejoice on the rostrum after their males’s singles last throughout the BWF Japan Masters in Kumamoto, Japan, November 19, 2023. /CFP
Denmark’s world No. 1 Viktor Axelsen took the boys’s singles crown forward of China’s Shi Yuqi, who completed second within the last, which ended 22-20, 21-17.
However, Axelsen has pulled out of the BWF China Masters that runs from November 21 to 26 in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province,
“Unfortunately, I won’t be participating in the China Masters this week,” stated Axelsen by way of social media.
“Would have beloved to play however my foot is just not able to play consecutive weeks with many exhausting matches. I’ll take just a few days to get well and get wholesome earlier than I bounce on the court docket once more.
“A shame, as I love to play in China but I will come back for the World Tour Finals (December 13-17 in Hangzhou),” added Axelsen.
Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia took the ladies’s singles title with a 21-12, 21-12 victory over Chen Yufei of China within the last.
Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia in motion within the ladies’s singles last throughout the BWF Japan Masters in Kumamoto, Japan, November 19, 2023. /CFP
Chen Yufei of China in motion within the ladies’s singles last. /CFP
BWF World Tour Japan Masters 2023
Location: Kumamoto, Japan
Date: November 14-19
Prize cash: $420,000
Winners:
Men’s singles: Viktor Axelsen of Denmark
Women’s singles: Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia
Men’s doubles: He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu of China
Women’s doubles: Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu of China
Mixed doubles: Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong of China
Source: CGTN