India Open: An retains title with a scintillating display

She came, she saw, she won, again. An Se-young continued to beryllium wherefore she is the astir ascendant women’s badminton subordinate successful the satellite astatine the moment, retaining her India Open rubric with a broad 21-13, 21-11 triumph implicit World No. 2 Zhi Yi Wang connected Sunday.

If her dismantling of Ratchanok Intanon successful the semifinals was a masterclass, the Korean served a reminder successful the last that she had a batch much successful her arsenal. The finalists whitethorn person been separated by conscionable 1 spot successful the satellite rankings, but connected the court, An was simply unbeatable.

She began with probing her hostile astatine the net, bringing Wang person with deceptive drops lone for the second to realise they were non-returnable and deed the nett oregon the nett cord. She repeatedly acceptable up the Chinese, making her enactment for each constituent lone to occurrence a almighty smash down the line, hugging the marking portion connected the mat.

With her scope of strokes complemented by a spot that Wang struggled to counter, An raced to 7-1 successful the opening crippled earlier the erstwhile switched plans, forcing the second to spell agelong and wide, gain speedy points and adjacent the spread to 15-13. But that was to beryllium the past of her challenge, the 2nd crippled being adjacent much one-sided with An letting retired a shriek arsenic the shuttle went wide astatine the net.

Taiwan’s Chun-Yi Lin, meanwhile, wholly dominated Jonatan Christie, upsetting the higher-ranked Indonesian successful consecutive games 21-10, 21-18 successful conscionable 38 minutes successful the men’s singles final. Lin, who had to enactment hard for his erstwhile wins against Lakshya Sen and Victor Lai, did not let immoderate abstraction and controlled the play adjacent arsenic an progressively frustrated Christie faded distant contempt a fewer sparks of fightback successful the 2nd game.

The results (finals): Men: Chun-Yi Lin (Tpe) bt Jonatan Christie (Ina) 21-10, 21-18.

Doubles: Wei Keng Liang & Chang Wang (Chn) bt Hiroki Midorikawa & Kyohei Yamashita (Jpn) 17-21, 25-23, 21-16.

Women: An Se-young (Kor) bt Zhi Yi Wang (Chn) 21-13, 21-11.

Doubles: Liu Sheng Shu & Tan Ning (Chn) bt Yuki Fukushima & Mayu Matsumoto (Jpn) 21-11, 21-18.

Mixed: Dechapol Puavaranukroh & Supissara Paewsampran (Tha) bt Mathias Christiansen & Alexandra Boje (Den) 19-21, 25-23, 21-18.