World champions SEO SEUG JAE and Kim won Ho Mount Asian champions Satwiksiraj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty in the last 21-19, 21-15 to pack the China Masters BWF Super-750 title in Shenzhen on Sunday. The final of the high effort between the world’s best defense and the world’s top -who -attacking couple ended in favor of the Koreans who managed to tame the aggressive Indians in the 45 -minute competition. Seung also became the first player to win back-to-back China Open titles. The Indian pair won no title this year and lost their second final in fourteen days. It started well for Satwik Chirag, who limited their aggressive instincts and dominated the Koreans in the early net exchanges. With a backlog of 6-7, they ran ahead to 14-7 with a seven-point burst. Seung and Kim did not lose hope and tried to keep the shuttle as low as possible, usually under the tape. They quickly scored five straight points and lowered the gap to 13-14. The game slowly slipped away from the Indians when the Koreans, in particular Seung, was a master in finding gaps in the rival court, in great contact. The loss of the first match from an affordable position rattled the Indians. In the second match, the Indians remained close to 13-15. Then the world champions won the gap before they won the second game on 21-15. Weng Hong Yang from China and a SE Young from Zuid -Korea won the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively. While Weng Lin Chun Yi of Chinese Taipei 21-11, 21-15 defeated, a beaten Han Yue of China 21-11, 21-3. China’s Jia Yi fan and Zhang Shu Xian took the title for women’s doubles with a 21-19, 16-21, 21-13 victory over Kim Hye Jeong and Kong Hee Yong of Korea in the final.
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