In the super100 India Hyderabad Badminton Open that ended today, South Korea's Kim Jae-eun won the women's singles championship in a 2-1 victory over former national badminton team player Deng Xuan, who represented Hong Kong, China. Although it is only a low-level event, this is the first time that the Korean women's singles has stood on the women's singles championship podium since the Korean Badminton Golden Tournament in December 2016, breaking the 26-month championship drought!
South Korean women's singles in the impression of many fans as if only Sung Ji Hyun alone to play a role, in fact, since the 2010 Korea You Cup won the championship, Sung Ji Hyun began to take on the role of a Sister of South Korea as a women's singles, at the end of 2010 in the world rankings, Sung Ji Hyun in 16th place, and then soared to the world's top ten, has remained so far. Her best world ranking in these 8 years was the world's third place at the end of 2016, when she first won the Korean Badminton Gold Championship and then finished second in the Dubai Finals, and the ranking soared.
However, since she won the championship this time, the Korean women's singles event has not won the championship again in the international arena, regardless of the size of the event. This cycle lasted for 26 months until today's Hyderabad badminton tournament. South Korea's 20-year-old Kim Jae-eun defeated Deng Xuan in three sets and broke the spell.
Kim Jae-eun actually made her debut in 2016, when she doubled in both events and reached the final four of that year's World Youth Championships, winning the third place in women's singles and women's doubles, and as a member of the 2017 Sudirman Cup, she was crowned the world champion of the team competition. However, in the 2017 individual events, she did not have outstanding results.
In the 2018 season, she defeated Li Yun and Cai Yanyan of Guoyu at the Lingshui Challenge at the beginning of the year to reach the women's singles final, and finally lost to Li Xuerui and only finished second; she encountered a round trip in the next few races. In this Hyderabad Open, she defeated the No. 6 seed Rusely Hattawan and teammate An Shiyong to enter the final, and finally defeated Deng Xuan and won the championship. As Sung-hyun grows older, Kim Jae-eun is expected to become the next Sung-chi-hyun and take on the responsibility of a Single Sister of Korean Women!