HONG KONG, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — Guo Xinwa and Wei Yaxin had been topped combined doubles champions as Team China capped off BWF Hong Kong Open with one gold and one silver right here on Sunday.
Despite pairing up for the primary time, Guo and Wei introduced surprises to many, as they arrange a last conflict towards Tang Chun-man and Tse Ying-suet of Hong Kong, China.
Guo and Wei took the primary recreation 21-13, earlier than persevering with their kind to get match level at 20-17 within the second. Although Tang and Tse pulled two factors again, a howler allowed Guo and Wei to say the title.
“It is a surprise for us to win the title in our first appearance as a pair, and we will move on step by step,” mentioned Wei.
China’s Zhang Yiman misplaced to high seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan 21-18, 21-15 within the ladies’s singles last.
“I am satisfied with my performance by showing what I’ve got in training. I will carry on and start from scratch,” Zhang famous.
Also on Sunday, Jonatan Christie of Indonesia gained the boys’s singles by rallying previous Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto 12-21, 22-20, 21-18, whereas his compatriots Apriyani Rahayu and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti took the ladies’s doubles title. Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark triumphed within the males’s doubles.