Eighteen-year-old Oh Jun-Sung of Korea and Japan’s Miwa Harimoto, 16, received the boys’s and girls’s singles titles respectively on the WTT Star Contender Chennai 2025 right here on Sunday.
Oh Jun-Sung of Korea
Native hero Manav Thakkar additionally created historical past by being the primary Indian paddler to achieve the boys’s singles semi-final at a WTT occasion.
Within the males’s closing, Jun-Sung defeated French teen Thibault Poret in a seven-game thriller whereas Harimoto, an Olympic medallist in Paris 2024, defeated her compatriot Honoka Hashimoto 4-2 to win her first crown at this degree.
The scoreline within the males’s closing in favour of Jun-Sung learn September 11, 11-7, 11-3, September 11, 6-11, 11-4, 11-7.
Harimoto beat Hashimoto September 11, 11-3, 11-8, 11-9, 10-12, 11-7.
Earlier within the day, Manav’s historic run got here to an finish within the penultimate spherical with a hard-fought 1-3 loss to Poret within the semi-final.
The spectacular last-four end, earned the Indian 210 WTT rating factors and a prize of USD 4,000 (INR 3.42 lakh) marking a big achievement for Indian desk tennis.
South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin, in the meantime, received the blended doubles title with a straight-game victory.
They beat Japanese pair of Maharu Yoshimura and Satsuki Odo 11-8, 11-5, 11-4 in fast time.
Enjoying in entrance of a packed home on the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Harimoto and Hashimoto engaged in spectacular lengthy rallies, testing one another’s endurance and precision.
The primary two video games noticed each gamers cancelling one another out, however from Recreation 3 onwards, the competition took on a brand new dimension beneath the restriction of the Expedite Rule.
Compelled to play sooner and extra decisively with the 13-shot cap in place, Harimoto thrived beneath strain, showcasing distinctive agility and tactical brilliance.
Regardless of her opponent’s relentless resistance, the 16-year-old held her nerve to win the ladies’s singles closing.
Later, the boys’s singles closing between Jun-Sung and Poret was an exciting, end-to-end battle with momentum shifting at each flip.
Each gamers displayed unimaginable ability and resilience, preserving the group on the sting of their seats.
Oh, trailing 2-3, mounted a superb comeback to win the final two video games, sealing a dramatic victory.