Sydney: Denmark’s Hans-Kristian Vittinghus who led Denmark to become the first European nation to win the Thomas Cup in last month’s Thomas Cup final in Kunshan, China, won his first ever Super Series tournament after overcoming Korea’s Jeon Hyeok Jin in a 3-set tussle in the Australian Badminton Open men’s singles final on Sunday in Sydney.
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Sydney: India’s badminton star Saina Nehwal shrugged off dropping the first set against World No. 12 Sun Yu of China on Sunday before hitting back to win 11-21, 21-14, 21-19 to claim her second Australian Open title in Sydney.
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Sydney: No. 7 seeds mixed doubles pair Chan Peng Soon/Goh Liu Ying bowed out of the Australian Open on Saturday after they went down to No. 8 seeds Lu Kai/Huang Yaqiong of China.
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Sydney: Hans-Kristian Vittinghus who kept his cool to clinch the winning point for Denmark in the Thomas Cup final in Kunshan, China last month, came through a tough men’s singles semi-final to beat India’s Srikanth Kidambi 22-20, 21-13 at the Australian Badminton Open in Sydney on Saturday.
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Sydney: Friday was a bad day for one of the sweetest couples in badminton – Chen Long and Wang Shixian when both were sent packing in the quarter-finals of Australian Open.
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Sydney: Mixed doubles No. 7 seeds Chan Peng Soon/Goh Liu Ying remained as Malaysia’s sole survivors after Koo Kien Keat/ Tan Boon Heong were knocked out from the Australian Open held at the Sydney Olympic Park Australia on Friday.
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Sydney: Men’s singles No. 1 seed Chen Long of China cruised through to the quarter-finals at the Australian Open Super Series as the World No. 2 men’s singles player wasted little time in dismissing Malaysia’s former World junior champion Zulfadli Zulkiffli 21-17, 21-12 in 48 minutes on Thursday.
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Sydney: Malaysia’s national champion shuttler Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin was in ruthless form on Wednesday in Sydney as he surged through to the second round of the Australian Open with a 21-12, 21-14 victory against Brice Leverdez of France in just 30 minutes. Zulkarnain will play Japanese player Sho Sasaki in the second round. Sasaki defeated Taiwan’s Hsu Jen Hao 21-14, 21-12 in an earlier match.
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Sydney: As the humble daughter of factory workers at a Bangkok sweet-maker, badminton was a ticket out of poverty for Ratchanok Intanon, who hopes winning gold at the Rio Olympics might inspire more Thai girls to chase their dreams.
The 21-year-old will be among Thailand’s main medal hopes in Brazil and one of the chief threats to China’s chances of defending their astonishing sweep of all five badminton titles at the London Games.
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Madrid: World No. 1 women’s shuttler Carolina Marin of Spain has withdrawn from the Australian Open as she had suffered some “discomfort” in Indonesia.
The Spanish badminton star was stunned by Wang Yihan of China in the Indonesia Open semi-final last Saturday, and has tweeted that she will not be playing at the Australian Open.
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