New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): South Korean badminton participant and Paris Olympics gold medalist shuttler An Se-young, who secured the India Open ladies’s singles title, expressed happiness at her title win and thanked the Indian crowd for his or her assist.
South Korea’s An Se Young registered a advantageous win to safe the ladies’s singles titles within the India Open 2025 on the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall right here on Sunday. She had had little hassle in packing off Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-12, 21-9 within the ladies’s singles ultimate.
Speaking after her match to the media, she stated, “I am so happy to win the game. The Indian crowd was amazing and they cheered and supported me. I enjoyed my match. I really focused on my speed and it is my strength.”This is 22-year-old shuttler’s twenty fifth Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour title and her second India Open title after 2023, when she defeated Akane Yamaguchi of Japan.
The ladies’s singles ultimate was a one-sided affair with Paris Olympic champion An Se Young of South Korea extending her dominance over Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong with a 21-12, 21-9 in simply 39 minutes.
The 2023 Indian Open champion got here into the ultimate with a 9-0 head-to-head file towards Chochuwong and took management of the match within the preliminary few exchanges. She raced to an 11-4 lead after which held 11 recreation factors. The Thai saved three of them however the hole was too massive for her to get well.
In the second recreation, Young took a 7-1 lead within the second recreation after which managed the proceedings completely to proceed her all-win file of 2025 by including her second India Open title to the Malaysia Open crown she bagged final week. The 22-year-old Korean hasn’t dropped a single recreation in her 10 matches this 12 months.
On the opposite hand, Viktor Axelsen, the Olympics gold medalist, taking part in in his sixth India Open ultimate in 10 years, defeated Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu 21-16, 21-8 to clinch his third India Open males’s singles crown.
In the doubles occasions, the unseeded Japanese mixture of Arisa Igarashi and Ayaka Sakuramoto capped off their giant-killing run with a medical 21-15, 21-13 victory over South Korea’s Kim Hye Jang and Kong Hee Young within the ladies’s doubles summit conflict. This is just the third match collectively for the Japanese mixture with Igarashi, previously referred to as Arisa Higashino, making a profitable shift to ladies’s doubles from combined doubles.
However, Chinese second seeds Jiang Zhen Bang and Wei Ya Xin ended the run of the unseeded French mixture of Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue with a 21-18, 21-17 win within the combined doubles ultimate.
Malaysian males’s doubles mixture of Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin discovered a well past South Korea’s Kim Won Ho and Seo Seung Jae 21-15, 13-21, 21-16 to clinch the title in the one match that went to the decider.
And the 2 singles finals proved to be probably the most lopsided ones.
While An Se Young has been dominating the ladies’s singles circuit, the boys’s singles ultimate was anticipated to be an in depth affair as Axelsen had misplaced to Lee within the opening spherical of the Malaysian Open final week and had struggled to shut out his quarterfinal and semi-final matches.
In the ultimate, the 2017 and 2019 champion didn’t begin effectively and was trailing 2-6 earlier than he began discovering the vary of his smashes. Lee, who had reached the ultimate final 12 months as effectively, tried to maintain attacking the backhand of the Dane however started making errors as soon as the eventual champion began retrieving all his attacking strokes.
Once Axelsen pocketed the opening recreation, he merely ran away with the second to take dwelling a prize purse of $66,500 and 11,000 rating factors.
“After this week, I feel my motivation is coming back. Since the Olympics, I had been struggling with injuries… This week has been very inconsistent for me mentally and game-wise but I am happy that I fought hard to win the title,” stated Axelsen, who thanked the followers for the vociferous assist he acquired all through the match.
Results:Men’s singles:3-Viktor Axelsen (Den) bt Lee Cheuk Yiu (Hkg) 21-16, 21-8Women’s singles:1-An Se Young (Kor) bt 8-Pornpawee Chochuwong (Tha) 21-12, 21-9Men’s doubles:3-Goh Sze Fei/Nu Izzuddin (Mas) bt Kim Won Ho/Seo Seung Jae (Kor) 21-15, 13-21, 21-16Women’s doubles:Arisa Igarashi/Ayako Sakuramoto (Jpn) bt 8-Kim Hye Jang/Kong Hee Young (Kor) 21-15, 21-13Mixed doubles:2-Jiang Zhen Bang/Wei Ya Xin (Chn) bt Thom Gicquel/Delphine Delrue (Fra) 21-18, 21-17. (ANI)