SHANGHAI: Malaysia´s Nur Izzuddin and Goh Sze Fei denied the hosts a clean sweep of all five titles at the China Open badminton on Sunday as they won the men´s doubles crown in Changzhou.
The seventh seeds fought back to defeat fifth-seeded home pairing He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu 13-21, 21-12, 21-17 in a topsy-turvy final lasting just under an hour. But apart from that it was all about the home team.
Third seed Wang Zhiyi defeated fast-rising Japanese teenager Tomoka Miyazaki 21-17, 21-15 to win the women´s singles crown. The unseeded Miyazaki, 18, was contesting her first final of a World Tour Super 1,000 event, one of the most prestigious in the badminton calendar.
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