Badminton   Women's Singles Final   2020 #TokyoOlympics
Channel: Mr.Sports Pro
Date: 03/08/2021

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Gold Medal - (China)
CHEN Yu Fei

Silver Medal - (Chinese Taipei)
TAI Tzu-Ying

Bronze Medal - (India)
PUSARLA V. Sindhu
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China’s CHEN Yu Fei beat world number one Chinese Taipei’s TAI Tzu-Ying in a thrilling two sets to one final of the women’s badminton singles at Tokyo 2020.

The top two seeds fought hard for 81-minutes to claim the title. Chen, 23, took the first set and Tai, 27, the second and it all went down to a tense final game at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza on 1 August.

Chen, a World Championship medallist who was making her Olympic debut, went up 10-3 but Tai dug in and clawed back points but was still behind 18-15. The Chinese athlete screamed when she got the 19th point, relieved to put more distance between them, but Tai came back again, and it was soon 19-17. It came down to which athlete could hold their nerve the longest. At 20-17 Tai got one back but Chen closed out the match at 21-18. By now both athletes were exhausted.

Tai, who got into the last 16 in Rio 2016, had hoped to stamp her country’s dominance on the sport after her Chinese Taipei’s compatriots WANG Chi-Lin and LEE Yang overpowered China’s LI Jun Hui and LIU Yu Chen in the men’s doubles badminton final the day before.

World champion and Rio 2016 silver medallist India’s Pusarla v Sindhu, took home the bronze medal after beating China’s HE Bing Jao, by two sets: 21-13, 21-15.