Vitidsarn stuns Axelsen to clinch India Open badminton title

Thailand’s rising star Kunlavut Vitidsarn surprised prime seed Viktor Axelsen to clinch the India Open badminton title with a 22-20, 10-21, 21-12 victory within the Sunday closing.

Within the girls’s singles, South Korea’s An Se-young beat world primary Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in New Delhi to avenge her loss on the Malaysia Open closing final week.

Vitidsarn’s males’s singles victory stood out because the 21-year-old former junior world champion acquired previous the Danish ace and world primary for the primary time in six makes an attempt.

Vitidsarn, seeded eighth, proved his semi-final victory over Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia was not a flash within the pan as he made Axelsen work for each level and gained many of the lengthy rallies.

“From my earlier losses in opposition to Viktor, I had learnt that if I may have interaction him in lengthy rallies and take the match to the decider then I’ve an opportunity to win,” stated Vitidsarn, who misplaced the World Championships closing to Axelsen final 12 months.

“The plan was adapting as we performed alongside. I performed with out a lot stress however the primary plan was to assault. I gave it no matter I had.”

Axelsen, who gained the Malaysia open title, bounced again after a detailed opening recreation however Vitidsarn stored his calm to win his first main Tremendous Sequence crown since he gained the German Open (Tremendous 300) final 12 months.

The 29-year-old Axelsen urged sports activities officers to maintain gamers’ well being in thoughts when scheduling back-to-back tournaments in numerous time zones.

An bounced again from a recreation right down to beat Yamaguchi 15-21, 21-16, 21-12 in a 62-minute battle of the Tremendous 750 occasion.

Yamaguchi, who was the highest seed and had crushed An in Kuala Lumpur final Sunday, conceded she made too many errors.

“Within the first recreation I managed the rallies and so did my opponent, however from the second recreation An elevated her motion pace,” Yamaguchi instructed reporters by means of an interpreter.

Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino gained the combined doubles title, whereas Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida gained the ladies’s doubles crown.

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