New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): Paris Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and South Korea’s An Se Young registered thumping victories to clinch the lads’s and ladies’s singles titles within the India Open 2025 on the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall right here on Sunday.
Axelsen, taking part in in his sixth India Open last in 10 years, defeated Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu 21-16, 21-8 to clinch his third India Open males’s singles crown whereas An Se Young had little hassle in packing off Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-12, 21-9 within the ladies’s singles last, as per a press launch from the Badminton Association of India (BAI).
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 event collectively for the Japanese mixture with Igarashi, previously often known as Arisa Higashino, making a profitable shift to ladies’s doubles from blended 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 blended doubles last.
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 essentially the most lopsided ones.
While An Se Young has been dominating the ladies’s singles circuit, the lads’s singles last was anticipated to be a close-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 actually begin nicely 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 nicely, 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 sport, he merely ran away with the second to take residence a prize purse of 66,500 US {dollars} 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 won the title,” mentioned Axelsen, who thanked the followers for the vociferous help he acquired by means of out the event.
The ladies’s singles last was additionally 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 in opposition to Chochuwong and took management of the match within the preliminary few exchanges. She raced to a 11-4 lead after which held 11 sport factors. The Thai saved three of them however the hole was too huge for her to recuperate.
In the second sport, Young took a 7-1 lead within the second sport 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 sport in her 10 matches this 12 months.
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)