India Open: Kunlavut Vitidsarn, An Se-young emerge champions

NEW DELHI: Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn and South Korea's An Se Young wore out their more fancied opponents -- Viktor Axelsen and Akane Yamaguchi -- to clinch the men's and women's singles titles respectively at India Open 2023, here on Sunday.

Vitidsarn, who had lost all six men's singles matches against top seed Axelsen before Sunday, engaged the tall Dane in long rallies in the decider before prevailing 22-20, 10-21, 21-12 in an hour and four minutes before Young got the better of Japan's Akane Yamaguchi 15-21, 21-16, 21-12 in just over an hour at the BWF World Tour Super 750 event organised by the Badminton Association of India.

In the day's other match, Chinese men's doubles champions Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang upset world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia 14-21, 21-19, 21-18.

The Japanese mixed doubles pairing of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino and the women's doubles combination of Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida grabbed the titles without hitting a shuttle as their respective opponents withdrew citing illness.

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