An Se-young crushes Carolina Marin to turn into South Korea’s first world champion | Badminton Information – Instances of India

An Se-young crushes Carolina Marin to turn into South Korea’s first world champion | Badminton Information – Instances of India

World primary An Se-young turned the primary girl from South Korea to win singles gold on the BWF World Championships when she beat former champion Carolina Marin 21-12, 21-10 within the ultimate on Sunday in Copenhagen.
An, the 21-year-old high seed, rounded off an ideal match by beating two Olympic champions en path to the title. She had knocked out Tokyo gold medallist Chen Yu Fei in straight video games within the semi-finals on Saturday.
“I am so comfortable to win the match at present. I loved taking part in,” An stated after receiving her gold medal.
Spain’s Marin, the 2016 Olympic champion who’s on the comeback path after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) damage, was seeking to win her fourth world title however she was no match for An, who wrapped up the competition in 42 minutes.
An received the final 11 factors in a row after the rating was tied at 10-10 within the second recreation handy Marin her first loss within the ultimate of the competitors.
An was South Korea’s first ladies’s finalist in 30 years. Bang Soo-hyun misplaced the 1993 ultimate to Indonesia’s Susi Susanti.
The boys’s ultimate was a a lot nearer affair the place Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn got here from behind to prevail 19-21 21-18 21-7 towards Japan’s Kodai Naraoka.
The pair had been neck and neck after two prolonged video games which lasted 81 minutes, however Vitidsarn stormed forward in a dominant ultimate recreation to safe victory and turn into the primary Thai participant to win a males’s singles gold.