JAKARTA, June 18 (Xinhua) — China clinched the titles in each girls’s singles and blended doubles on the Indonesian Open badminton match on Sunday.
China’s Chen Yufei overcame Spain’s Marin Carolina within the girls’s singles last with a rating of 21-18, 21-19. The match was held at Istora Senayan, a famend badminton area in Indonesia.
“Marin played at a fast pace and was aggressive. At the start of the second set, I was struggling to keep up, falling behind in the score, but I adjusted my strategy and was able to catch up,” mentioned Chen.
Her compatriots, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong, the top-ranked pair on the planet, defeated the Japanese duo of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino 21-19, 21-10 within the blended doubles last.
“We meticulously prepared ourselves for our opponents’ usual playing style and exercised patience throughout the match, thus avoiding many mistakes. That’s why they likely felt pressured by us,” Zheng famous.
In the ladies’s doubles last, South Korean pair Baek Ha-na and Lee So-hee overcame the Japanese duo Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota 22-20, 21-10.
The males’s doubles gold was secured by Indian pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who defeated their Malaysian rivals Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik.
Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, presently the world No. 1, eased previous Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 21-14, 21-13 within the males’s singles last.
According to the organizing committee, the Indonesian Open, a BWF World Tour Super 1000 occasion, is not going to be held on the historic Istora Senayan beginning subsequent yr. The match is anticipated to be staged on the nation’s brand-new Indoor Multifunction Stadium (IMS), owing to its bigger viewers capability.