On December 17, Beijing time, the 2023 BWF Year-end Finals came to an end, and five individual year-end champions were announced! Axelsen, Tai Tzu Ying, Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan and Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong were crowned the year-end champions of this season!
Final Report:
Men's Singles: Viktor Axelsen 2-0 (21-11, 21-12) Shi Yuqi, won the year-end men's singles championship 5 times
World No. 1 Axelsen successfully defended his year-end championship! This season, Axelsen participated in the "health" style and is still the first person in the number of men's singles champions. In addition to the year-end championship, he won 7 championships and 1 runner-up this season; although he lost the heaviest World Championships, I think his goal must be to participate in the Paris Olympics in good health and defend his Olympic title! This is also an important reason why he chose to participate this season! Shi Yuqi won the runner-up again, and ended this season with four runners-up!
Women's Singles: Tai Tzu Ying 2-1 (12-21, 21-14, 21-18) Marin, won the year-end women's singles championship 4 times
From a two-game defeat to An Xiying in the group stage, she had to rely on Mariska to win to advance, to a shocking reversal in the semifinals, eliminating An Xiying, the first person in women's singles this season, and then to defeating the triple crown champion of the World Championships in the final! Dai Tzu Ying's year-end finals are a bit of luck + strength! This is the fourth finals championship in her career, and it is also her third championship this season! The BIG4 members, who are slightly inferior to An Xiying, Akane Yamaguchi and Chen Yufei throughout the season, played perfectly on the year-end stage!
Men's Doubles: Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae 2-0 (21-17, 22-20) Leung Wei Hang/Wang Chang won the Men's Doubles title for the first time
This is Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae's first full season as a partner! They advanced to the semi-finals by finishing second in their group and beating the national team 2-0 in the semi-finals and finals, and they deserve to be the champions of this season's World Championships! In fact, the two have not won many seasons in the season, and there are only two 500 championships on tour. And the World Championships and the year-end two heavyweight events, they successfully won in a single season!
Women's Doubles: Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan 2-0 (21-16, 21-16) Bai Ha Na/Li Shaoxi, won the year-end women's doubles title 4 times
The women's doubles field has been full of China, Japan and South Korea matchups throughout the season, and the Fan Chen combination is still the best pair! 8 championships in a single season, including the World Championships, Asian Games and year-end three heavyweight championships. It is worth mentioning that this is the fourth finals championship of the Fan Chen combination, and Chen Qingchen has also been successfully crowned 6 champions (2 mixed doubles, 4 women's doubles)!
Mixed doubles: Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong 2-0 (21-11, 21-18) Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping, won the year-end mixed doubles championship three times
Going round and round, the mixed doubles is still the final of the national feather double insurance! Although the IELTS combination does not have the "invincible" mode of winning consecutive championships last season, it has stood on the podium 10 times in a single season (7 crowns and 3 runners-up) to tie the number of times last season (10 championships)! The first full season of the Feng Huang combination is also bright enough to be fully qualified for the burden of the second mixed doubles (double insurance)! This is the third time that the IELTS combination has won the year-end championship!