Carolina Marin, Viktor Axelsen win singles titles at Thailand Open

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Reigning Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marin and Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen on Sunday got here out with dominant performances to win the respective girls’s and males’s singles titles on the Toyota Thailand Open match.

In girls’s singles remaining, Marin defeated prime seed Tai Tzu-Ying 21-19, 21-17 in a match that lasted 48 minutes.

In a a lot tighter contest than the primary remaining final week the place the 2 had contested within the summit conflict, Marin received the primary recreation 21-19. The Taiwanese 26-year-old then appeared to lose her confidence early within the second recreation, as her 27-year-old Spanish opponent asserted her dominance. Tai then saved 4 match factors however it was not sufficient to cease Marin to seal the sport 21-17 and clinch her second Thailand Open title in a fortnight.

In males’s singles remaining, Axelsen eased previous Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus 21-11, 21-7 in simply 40 minutes to seal his second title inside a span of two weeks in Thailand.

With the win, the world quantity 4 has turn out to be the primary males’s singles participant to win all three Super 1000 match in a season and has additionally prolonged his unbeaten streak to twenty-eight matches.

Thailand is internet hosting three consecutive badminton tournaments in a bio-secure bubble, with out spectators amid the Covid-19 pandemic.