South Korea’s An Se-young celebrates profitable the title in Shenzhen. Picture: AFP
BEIJING:
Badminton world primary An Se-young despatched a warning for the Asian Video games as she clinched her third China Masters title in a row in ominous style.
South Korea’s reigning Olympic and world champion will defend her crown when the Asian Video games start on September 19 in Aichi-Nagoya in Japan.
The 24-year-old shall be overwhelming favorite after profitable the China Masters on Sunday with a ruthless 21-17, 21-6 demolition of Tomoka Miyazaki in Shenzhen.
An didn’t drop a recreation all week on the way in which to her seventh title of the season.
“I am so happy with myself. I am actually happy with the consequence and I really feel so blissful,” An stated.
Regardless of being the undoubted dominant power in ladies’s badminton as soon as extra this yr, An stated: “There are various gamers arising and difficult.
“I do not assume any match will be taken frivolously.”
The lads’s singles remaining was surprisingly an all-Hong Kong affair, with world quantity 32 Jason Gunawan defeating Lee Cheuk-Yiu 21-9, 21-16.
Within the males’s doubles, India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty beat residence duo He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu in a three-game battle.
Shetty and Rankireddy will defend their Asian Video games males’s doubles title in Japan.
“Going into the Asian Video games profitable a title undoubtedly reassures us what we’re engaged on is not off course,” stated Shetty.
“We’ll return residence, push ourselves to the restrict, prepare for the following 10 days and go all weapons blazing in Japan. We need to go on the market and have some enjoyable.”
China’s Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping received the blended doubles whereas Sumire Nakade and Miyu Takahashi of Japan clinched the ladies’s doubles crown.