Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying has defeated former World No. 1 Carolina Marin to clinch the gold medal at the BWF World Tour Finals.
Chinese Taipei’s ace shuttler Tai Tzu Ying has decided to retire from badminton at the end of next year. However, looking at the game awareness, her hunger for trophy and on-court fitness it doesn’t look like the Taiwanese shuttler will quit before she has some more trophies in her cabinet. Her latest addition has been the 2023 BWF World Tour Finals title in the women’s singles category. In the finals, she faced one of her arch nemesis from the field of badminton, Carolina Marin. The match went on for more than an hour and there were many nervy moments throughout the match. However, the 29-year-old foiled any attempts of Spanish triumph in the end.
Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei produced another sensational comeback to beat Carolina Marin in the women’s singles final of the 2023 BWF World Tour Finals in Hangzhou, China on Sunday. Tai rallied from a game and 4-1 down to win 12-21, 21-14, 21-18 in an hour and 13 minutes and claim a record fourth BWF season-ending crown. Earlier during the semi-finals she had managed to save 4 match points against Korea’s An Se Young. Head-to-head Marin and Tai were tied at 11-11 wins before this encounter. However, this time Tai has leapfrogged over Marin to make it 12-11.
The Spaniard moved clear early in the first game, covering Tai’s drop shots with ease to take an 11-6 lead into the interval. Marin kept up the pressure to wrap up the opening game in just 21 minutes. Subsequently, she went 4-1 in front in the second before going into the mid-game break 11-9 up. But Tai, staring at defeat as she had on Saturday, started to find success by manoeuvring the left-hander around the court. Tai won six points in a row to take control of the second game and, with Marin suddenly looking leaden-footed, the 29-year-old quickly levelled the contest.
The error count was high from both women at the start of the decider. However, Tai played a magnificent angled drop shot which brushed the net to level the scores at 9-9 before taking an 11-10 advantage into the changeover. To the delight of the crowd, she then won eight of the next 11 points before converting her third championship point to regain the title she last won in 2020.
Twitter was bustling with great joy as two of the heavyweights were squaring off against each other. Moreover, it was a remarkable comeback by Chinese Taipei’s shuttler after she went down in the first game. The way Ying staged her comeback made everyone awestruck. Naturally, the netizens took to social media to celebrate this win and more importantly the nerve-wracking match. Listed below are the top Twitter reactions:
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