Thailand Open: Carolina Marin, Viktor Axelsen win singles titles in Bangkok
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Spanish Olympic champion Carolina Marin and Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen received the ladies’s and males’s singles titles, respectively, on the Thailand Open Super 1000 badminton event in Bangkok on Sunday.
Marin, 27, beat Chinese Taipei’s high seed Tai Tzu Ying in straight video games in an ominous show of type as she prepares to defend her Olympic title later within the 12 months in Tokyo. Tai was restricted to a single digit rating within the first recreation and whereas she fought onerous within the second, Marin ended up successful the match 21-9, 21-16.
This was Marin’s seventh win in 16 conferences in opposition to Tai.
Axelsen, in the meantime, recorded his second consecutive event win with a 21-14, 21-14 win over Hong Kong’s Angus Ng Ka Long. Axelsen had earlier received the All England Open Championship in March.
Indonesia’s Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu beat Thailand’s Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai 21-15, 21-12 to win the ladies’s doubles remaining. Taiwan’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin beat Malaysia’s Goh V Shem and Tan Wee Kiong 16-21, 23-21, 19-21 to win the boys’s doubles title.
In the blended doubles, top-seeded Thai pair Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai beat Indonesia’s Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva Oktavianti 21-3, 20-22, 21-18.
