New Delhi, Jan 19: Paris Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and South Korea’s An Se Young registered thumping victories to clinch the men’s and women’s singles titles in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025 at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Sunday.

Axelsen, playing in his sixth India Open final in 10 years, defeated Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu 21-16, 21-8 to clinch his third India Open men’s singles crown while An Se Young had little trouble in packing off Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-12, 21-9 in the women’s singles final.

On Saturday, India’s challenge at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025 came to an end with men’s doubles combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty went down against world no. 2 Nur Izzuddin and Goh Sze Fei of Malaysia in the semifinals of the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 event at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Saturday.

The Indian combination, making a comeback of sorts on the BWF circuit following an injury to Satwik, made a strong start against the Malaysian but struggled to counter the game plan of their opponent at the back end of both games and lost 21-18, 21-14 in 37 minutes.

Though on Friday during Quarter Finals encounter, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stayed on course for their second consecutive Yonex-Sunrise India Open final with a straight games win over Korea’s Yong Jin and Kang Min Hyuk in the men’s doubles quarterfinals. Satwik and Chirag were at their dominant best in their quarter-final encounter against South Korea’s Yong Jin and Kang Min Hyuk, winning 21-10, 21-17

In the paired events, the unseeded Japanese combination of Arisa Igarashi and Ayaka Sakuramoto capped off their giant killing run with a clinical 21-15, 21-13 victory over South Korea’s Kim Hye Jang and Kong Hee Young in the women’s doubles summit clash. This is only the third tournament together for the Japanese combination with Igarashi, formerly known as Arisa Higashino, making a successful shift to women’s doubles from mixed doubles.

However, Chinese second seeds Jiang Zhen Bang and Wei Ya Xin ended the run of the unseeded French combination of Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue with a 21-18, 21-17 win in the mixed doubles final.

Malaysian men’s doubles combination of Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin found a way past South Korea’s Kim Won Ho and Seo Seung Jae 21-15, 13-21, 21-16 to clinch the title in the only match that went to the decider.

And the two singles finals proved to be the most lopsided ones.
While An Se Young has been dominating the women’s singles circuit, the men’s singles final was expected to be a close-affair as Axelsen had lost to Lee in the opening round of the Malaysian Open last week and had struggled to close out his quarterfinal and semi-final matches.

In the final, the 2017 and 2019 champion didn’t really start well and was trailing 2-6 before he started finding the range of his smashes. Lee, who had reached the final last year as well, tried to keep attacking the backhand of the Dane but began making errors once the eventual champion started retrieving all his attacking strokes.

Once Axelsen pocketed the opening game, he simply ran away with the second to take home a prize purse of $66,500 and 11,000 ranking points.

“After this week, I feel my motivation is coming back. Since the Olympics, I had been struggling with injuries… This week has been very inconsistent for me mentally and game wise but I am happy that I fought hard won the title,” said Axelsen, who thanked the fans for the vociferous support he got through out the tournament.
The women’s singles final was also a one-sided affair with Paris Olympic champion An Se Young of South Korea extending her dominance over Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong with a 21-12, 21-9 in just 39 minutes.

The 2023 Indian Open champion came into the final with a 9-0 head-to-head record against Chochuwong and took control of the match in the initial few exchanges. She raced to a 11-4 lead and then held 11 game points. The Thai saved three of them but the gap was too big for her to recover.
In the second game, Young took a 7-1 lead in the second game and then controlled the proceedings perfectly to continue her all-win record of 2025 by adding her second India Open title to the Malaysia Open crown she bagged last week. The 22-year-old Korean hasn’t dropped a single game in her 10 matches this year.

Results:
Men’s singles:
3-Viktor Axelsen (Den) bt Lee Cheuk Yiu (Hkg) 21-16, 21-8
Women’s singles:
1-An Se Young (Kor) bt 8-Pornpawee Chochuwong (Tha) 21-12, 21-9
Men’s doubles:
3-Goh Sze Fei/Nu Izzuddin (Mas) bt Kim Won Ho/Seo Seung Jae (Kor) 21-15, 13-21, 21-16
Women’s doubles:
Arisa Igarashi/Ayako Sakuramoto (Jpn) bt 8-Kim Hye Jang/Kong Hee Young (Kor) 21-15, 21-13
Mixed doubles:
2-Jiang Zhen Bang/Wei Ya Xin (Chn) bt Thom Gicquel/Delphine Delrue (Fra) 21-18, 21-17

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New Delhi, Jan 16: Lone Indian Mens Singles player, Kiran George kept his nerves under pressure to register straight game wins while the men’s doubles combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty came back from a game down to advance to the quarter-finals of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025, a HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 event, at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Thursday.

Kiran defeated Frenchman Alex Lanier 22-20, 21-13 in the men’s singles second round clash.Later in the day, 2022 champions Satwik and Chirag had to regroup after losing the first game to beat Japan’s Kenya Mitsuhashi/Hiroki Okamura 20-22, 21-14, 21-16.

Earlier, Kiran saved six game points against Lanier in the opening game of their second round clash. The 24-year-old, who got a last-minute entry into the competition from the reserves list, looked out of sorts as the Frenchman’s attacked precisely in the opening game.

Lanier raced to 20-14 lead in the opening game before Kiran staged an improbable comeback, winning eight straight points to pocket the game 22-20. At that stage, he simply kept the shuttle in play long enough for his opponent to make a mistake and the errors began coming think and fast for the Frenchman as the Indian started closing in.

“At 14-20, I was just taking at one point at a time, not thinking about the lead, whether I’m trailing. I was just playing one point at a time. I think that helped me to secure the game,” said Kiran after the win.

It looked like Satwik and Chirag will also take a straight games route to the round of 8 when they opened up a 18-14 lead and had a game point at 20-19 but could not convert it and lost the opening game. But that blip did not prove costly as they quickly took control of the action in the second game and then maintained the advantage to win in one hour 11 minutes.

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New Delhi, Jan 16: Former champion PV Sindhu rekindled memories of her old aggressive self up and coming Kiran George kept his nerves under pressure to register straight game wins while the men’s doubles combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty came back from a game down to advance to the quarter-finals of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025, a HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 event, at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Thursday.

Sindhu, playing only her second tournament since the Paris Olympics, hammered Japan’s Manami Suizu 21-15, 21-13.While that match kept the badminton fans at the edge of their seats, Sindhu and Kiran gave them enough reasons to celebrate.

Having spent over six months on the side-lines, Sindhu had looked rusty in the opening match against Shuo Yun Sung of Chinese Taipei in the opening round. But the former world champion played aggressively against Suizu by going for winners from both sides of the court.

After the initial exchanges, Sindhu raced to a 13-6 lead in the opening game and though Suizu narrowed the gap to 14-13, the Indian star always looked in control and he again opened a big gap. The second game saw complete domination of Sindhu, who found cross court winners at will.

“After a break, what I liked about my game today was my movement and my attacks were working well. Moving forward, I need to be ready for anything because matches will get harder,” said Sindhu, who will now face Indonesian fourth seed Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, who defeated another Japanese Natsuki Nadaira 21-12, 24-22 in the other second round clash.

It was not a fruitful day for the other Indian contenders in the fray with women’s doubles combination of Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto, Rutuparna Panda/Swetaparna Panda and mixed doubles pairs of Dhruv Kapila/Tanisha and Ashith Surya/Amrutha Pramuthesh getting knocked out in the second round.

Dhruv and Tanisha played their hearts out against eighth seeds Hiroki Midorikawa and Natsu Saito of Japan but ended on the losing end of the 21-18, 21-17 score-line. Later Tanisha and Ashwini also had a mixed day in office as they lost 9-21, 21-23 against Japan’s Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto.

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New Delhi, Jan 15: Malvika Bansod and Priyanshu Rajawat put their best foot forward by putting their much higher ranked opponents to the sword but were unfortunate to end on the wrong side of the score-line in the opening round of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025 at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Wednesday.

It was the heart-breaking losses of the young guns, Malvika and Rajawat, that left the home badminton fans speechless as both of them played their hearts out. Malvika saved two game points in the opening game and fought back from 7-14 to 16-16 in the second against women’s singles third seed Han Yue of China before going down 20-22, 21-16, 21-11 in an hour and six minutes.

Malvika, who had gone down in straight game against Han last week in Malaysia, started strong in the opening game and though the Chinese took control of the game in the later stage, kept her nerves and forced errors to save two game points and pocket the first game. It looked like she could do an encore in the second after winning eight the nine points from 7-14 but a couple of errors derailed her effort and the experienced Han tightened the noose in the decider.

In the men’s singles match, Rajawat saved a match point in the second game to force a decider against the 2023 world championships silver medallist and sixth seed Kodai Naraoka but could not avoid a 21-16, 22-20, 21-13 loss in a match that lasted an hour and 22 minutes in the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 tournament.

Rajawat displayed delectable stroke play and employed the big jump smashes to keep pace with Naroaka. The Japanese was made to work hard for every point and the error the Indian forced the sixth seed to commit at match point in the second game after a long rally showed that he was prepared for the scrap. But once again it was experience of Naraoka that counted in the final analysis.

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New Delhi, Jan 15: Anupama Upadhyaya won the battle between two rising women’s singles players while Malvika Bansod and Priyanshu Rajawat put their best foot forward by putting their much higher ranked opponents to the sword but were unfortunate to end on the wrong side of the score-line in the opening round of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2025 at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall here on Wednesday.

Among the foreign stars, Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen fought back from a game down to beat Chi Yu Jen (Tpe) 16-21, 21-11, 21-13 in men’s singles opening round while An Se Young defeated Chiu Pin-Chian of Taipei 22-20, 21-15.

Former National champion Anupama engaged Rakshita in long rallies, not giving her many chances to use the big smash to win 21-17, 21-18 in 43 minutes to advance to the second round.

“This is my first time playing in India Open Super 750 level. Last year, I was just watching all of them play. Before this I had played in the Super 500 but the standard at this level is different. Last year, I played my first 750 in China and last week also played Malaysia Super 1000. These performances help me believe that I can be their equal. I have the speed and compatibility against the top players,” said Anupama.

Also advancing to the next round were seventh seeded women’s doubles combination of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto, Rutuparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda and the mixed doubles combination of Ashith Surya and Amruta Pramuthesh.

Ashwini and Tanisha defeated compatriots Kavya Gupta and Radhika Sharma 21-11, 21-12 while the Panda sisters got the better of the young Thai combination of Phattarin Aiamvareesrisakul and Sarisa Janpeng 7-21, 21-19, 21-14. Ashith and Amruta then teamed up to beat K Tarun and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli 21-14, 21-15 to advance to the mixed doubles second round.

Asian Games and world championships bronze medallist HS Prannoy’s comeback bid was also cut short by Su Li Yang as the 32-year-old Indian went down 16-21, 21-18, 21-12 in an hour and 13 minutes.

The day ended on a disappointing note for the hosts as 2022 champion Lakshya Sen went down 21-15, 21-10 against Chinese Taipei’s Lin Chun-Yi.

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New Delhi January 14, 2025: The Indian women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand inked history as they entered the top 10 in the BWF rankings released on Tuesday. With their new World No.9 ranking, they became the highest-ever ranked Indian women’s doubles pair. The pair surpassed the previous best rankings by an Indian women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponappa and Jwala Gutta. Ponappa and Gutta became the world number 10 in 2015.

In the paired events, while fifth seeded women’s doubles combination of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (daughter of Pulela Gopichand, Chief Coachof India) went down 21-23, 19-21 against Japan’s Arisa Igarashi and Ayako Sakuramoto in the opening round.

The duo won Syed Modi India International last year and then performed in an impressive manner at the world tour final. Their performance placed them at No.11 in the BWF rankings.

Earlier, the Indian duo missed out on the qualification for the Olympics but added crucial points to their tally in the Macau Open and Canada Open. Also, a quarter-final finish at the Malaysia Open helped them get an entry in the top 10.

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