OSAKA, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) — Two-time world champion Akane Yamaguchi from Japan overcame South Korea’s An Se-young in straight units to win her third ladies’s singles title on the Japan Open badminton event right here on Sunday.
Yamaguchi, who defeated China’s Olympic champion Chen Yufei to retain her world title final Sunday, breezed previous a fatigued An 21-9, 21-15 in simply 38 minutes.
“We were both tired, but I knew I needed to take control of the game,” the 25-year-old Yamaguchi mentioned. “I knew I had to push myself to the limit and use the fans to move me.”
The males’s singles crown was additionally received by a Japanese shuttler. Kenta Nishimoto scored the largest victory of his profession with an upset victory over fourth seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 21-19, 23-21, 21-17.
China’s lowly ranked pair Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang, who began to play collectively 4 months in the past, continued their giant-killing run by beating seventh seed Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark 21-18, 13-21, 21-17 to win their first title of any type.
“This is the biggest tournament I have played in my career,” Liang mentioned. “I have never seen such a medal before.”
An excited Wang mentioned, “I wished to run a victory lap inside the gymnasium, but I was too tired to run.”
Team China had a complete of 29 gamers on the Japan Open however all their star gamers, together with their Olympic and world champions, failed to achieve the finals.
“Our goal is to break into the top 20 in the world rankings at the end of this year,” mentioned Wang. “So we can play the qualifying tournaments for the Paris Olympics.”
Jeong Na-eun/Kim Hye-jeong beat Baek Ha-na/Lee Yu-lim 23-21, 28-26 in an all-South Korean ladies’s doubles ultimate.
The blended doubles champion was received by Dechapol Puavaranukroh/Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand, who ousted Japan’s Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino 16-21, 23-21, 21-18.