Thursday, August 3, 2023

Japan Open 2023

 In MS and MD, the Olympic Champion rules. S750 event same as SG Open.

Notables.

xd. Watanabe did well to beat the Thai pair in semis. Huang and Zheng did well to enter final. Watanabe got the upper hand this time.

wd. Msia again playing top seed china and failed again. No luck.  The chinese did well in semis to beat fukushima. Korean Kim and Kong did well to beat Nagahara and went on to beat the Chinese in the final. Korean wd is very good. Solid.

ws. Defending Champ Yamaguchi loat narrowly to Tunjung from Indonesia. CYF lost to USA. He Bing Jiao did well go to into final beating Tunjung. ASY was unstoppable beating Ratchanok and TTY before beating HBJ in the final. This is her 1st no. 1 world ranking.

md. Alfian lost to Lee and Wang in semis. Hugo beat Liu in semis. Lee and Wang did well to beat Hugo in the final.

ms. Pranoy got the most points from Viktor in this tournament. The rest were easy for Viktor to beat in 2 sets. Jojo did well to beat Vitid and Laksya Sen but no match for Viktor again.

Next is Australia Open.


2022 winners.

MS - Kenta Nishimoto (JPN)
WS - Akane Yamaguchi (JPN)
MD -Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang(CHN)
WD - JEONG NA EUN/KIM Hye JEONG (KOR)
XD - Decaphol Puavaranukroh/Sapsiree Taerattanachai(THA)

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