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# China win four of five individual titles in World Junior Championships

# Japan spoil the show for China in women’s doubles

 

By Rizal Abdullah

Mixed team champions China walked away with four of the five individual titles ar stake in the BWF World Junior Championships Eye-Level Cups which ended in Bilbao, Spain on Sunday.

China won the men’s and women’s singles apart from the men’s doubles and mixed doubles. The only one that escaped from China was the women’s doubles title which went Japan’s way in a nail-biting 84-minute three-set thriller.

Enroute to the title Japan’s Sayaka Hobara-Nami Matsuyama wrote badminton history as the first from Japan to win the women’s doubles title in the Junior Championships.

In the final the Japanese combo, seeded second in Bilbao, stunned favourites and top seeds Du Yeu-Xu Ya 25-23, 19-21, 21-14 – a defeat that was too painful for the Chinese to swallow.

Putting that aside, China reigned supreme in all the other finals to add to the mixed team title with a 3-0 win over Malaysia in the final.

Sun Fexiang ended his junior status by winning the men’s singles title. In the final the Chinese outplayed Indonesia’s 14th seed Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo 21-19, 21-12 in 41 minutes.

As expected Han Chengkai-Zhou Haodong, the top seed in the men’s doubles bagged the title with a 21-17, 21-14 over unseeded Koreans Lee Hong-sub-Lim Su-min 21-17, 21-14 for the title.

Compatriot Chen Yufei added more joy to the Chinese camp by taking the women’s singles title. In the final Chen Yufei defeated Thailand’s third seed Pornpawee Chochuwong 21-14, 21-17 in a 41-minute encounter.

Winning the women’s singles crown was something special for the China as the Asian giant last won the title way back in 2007 through Wang Lin.

After winning the silver at the last world junior championships in Lima, Peru the mixed doubles pair of He Jiting-Du Yue laid their hands in the gold in Bilbao.They beat compatriots Zhou Haodong-Hu Yuxiang 21-13, 21-15 in the final.

 

RESULTS (All Finals)

Men’s singles

Sun Feixiang (Chn) beat Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo (Ina) 21-19, 21-12

 

Men’s doubles

Han Chengkai-Zhou Haodong (Chn) beat Lee Hong-sub-Lim Su-min (Kor) 21-17, 21-14

 

Women’s singles

Chen Yufei (Chn) beat Pornpawee Chochuwong (Tha) 21-14, 21-17

 

Women’s doubles

Sayaka Hobara-Nami Matsuyama (Jpn) beat Da Yue-Xu Ya (Chn) 25-23, 19-21, 21-14

 

Mixed doubles

He Jiting-Du Yue (Chn) beat Zhou Haodong-Hu Yuxiang (Chn) 21-13, 21-15

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