Singapore's Shinta Mulia Sari and Yao Lei did the nation immensely proud by claiming the women's doubles title at the Singapore Badminton Open with a 21-17, 22-20 victory over South Korea's Kim Min Jung and Lee Hyo Jung.
Singapore's Yao Lei and Shinta Mulia Sari have overcome all odds to march into the Singapore Badminton Open's women's doubles final. After a 50-minute spic battle, the unseeded hosts beat the 4th-seeded pair of Cheng Wen Hsing / Chien Yu Chin of Taiwan 11-21, 21-18, 21-19.
Yao Lei and Shinta Mulia Sari kept Singapore's flag flying at the Singapore Badminton Open as they defeated India's Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa to become the first ever Singapore women's doubles pair to make the semi-finals at the Singapore Badminton Open.
It proved to be a day of mixed fortunes for Singapore in the second round of the Singapore Badminton Open. The Republic’s men’s doubles pair and women’s doubles pair made it to the quarter finals but the three mixed doubles pairs regrettably bowed out of the tournament.
Singapore shuttlers tasted sweet success on the second day of the Singapore Badminton Open through an interesting variety of 'rojak' doubles combinations that wreaked havoc in the first round of the mixed doubles and women's doubles events including knocking out two seeded mixed doubles pairs and a women's doubles pair.
The heavy downpour saw water leaking through the keel insulation of the Singapore Indoor Stadium's roof, resulting in a delay of the Singapore Badminton Open's matches.
Ronald Susilo and brother-in-law, Chandra Wijaya, swept aside duos from Vietnam and Singapore to qualify for the men's doubles main draw in the Singapore Badminton Open.
Local players made their presence felt on the qualifying day of the 2010 Singapore Badminton Open with two men’s singles players, two women’s single players, two men’s doubles pairs, and a mixed doubles pair making it to the main draw.