Satsuki Odo and Sakura Yokoi win the women's doubles title (Photo WTT)
Satsuki Odo-Sakura Yokoi have been crowned women’s doubles champions at the WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025, after defeating the Korean duo of Joo Cheonhui-Kim Nayeong in a five-game thriller 9-11, 11-5, 5-11, 11-4, 11-6.
This marks Odo-Yokoi’s sixth Series title together and their first success since WTT Contender Muscat 2025 back in January.
It was drama from the outset at Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex, with Cheonhui-Nayeong recovering a 9-6 point deficit to claim the opening game 9-11 in this inaugural battle between the two pairs.
Top seeded Odo-Yokoi were able to make amends in the second game. Racing ahead to a 9-5 lead, the Japanese duo won two additional points to get payback, the scoreboard now tied at one game apiece.
With the third game favouring the Korean team, the pressure was on match favourites, who were now trailing 1-2 in games.
Displaying masterful precision and speed, the top seeds upped the ante, pulling ahead to an 8-1 point advantage, before a forehand smash from Odo sealed the game 11-4.
With victory in their sights, Odo and Yokoi shot out of the gates in the final game, winning the first three points and prompting a Time-Out call from their Korean opponents.
But Cheonhui-Nayeong’s break proved ineffective, as Odo-Yokoi powered on, producing an unbreakable level of table tennis to lead 10-2.
The Korean pair would save four match points, but at 10-6, Yokoi released a blistering forehand counter-topspin to claim the game, match and title.
Korean’s Lim Jonghoon-Oh Junsung bested Pang Koen-and Quek Izaac 12-10, 11-8, 12-1 in the men’s doubles title battle.
It comes not only as their second appearance as a partnership, but also their second men’s doubles title in the series, having won the WTT Contender Skopje 2025 in June.
A fantastic achievement for the Korean pairing, who thrilled fans throughout the entire event together at Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex, only to excite once more with their stellar triumph over Europe Smash – Sweden 2025 semi-finalists, Pang-Quek, without dropping a single game.
Meanwhile in the men’s singles qualifier Vladimir Sidorenko extended his fairy-tale run to the semi-finals upsetting second seed Darko Jorgic 11-9, 3-11, 11-8, 11-4.
Awaiting Sidorenko in the final four is none other than top seed Felix Lebrun, who booted Oh Junsung from the singles title race with a 14-12, 11-9, 11-9.
