{"id":11027,"date":"2026-03-29T19:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=11027"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:07:01","slug":"teenagers-rakshita-and-richie-claim-third-career-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/teenagers-rakshita-and-richie-claim-third-career-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers Rakshita and Richie claim third career titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Teenagers Rakshita Sree Santhosh Ramraj of India and Richie Duta Richardo of Indonesia clinched their third BWF International Series titles at the Vietnam International badminton championships in Hanoi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rakshita, who will turn 19 next week, gave herself an advance birthday gift after she defeated Hong Kong\u2019s Happy Lo Sin Yan of Hong Kong in the women\u2019s singles final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second seeded Indian lass battled almost an hour before picking up a hard-earned 16-21, 21-15, 21-16 for the crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rakshita\u2019s previous wins on the circuit came at the India International and Slovenia Open two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richie claimed the men\u2019s singles title with a clinical 21-13, 21-14 win over Korea\u2019s Kim Hae-deun. The 13<sup>th<\/sup> seed was in full control of the final that lasted just 39-minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indonesian lad had won the Thailand International last year and the Malaysia International a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scratch duo of Gronya Somerville-Jospehine Wu battled it out with Japan\u2019s Miki Kanehiro-Yuna Kato for the women\u2019s doubles title. The Australian-Canadian pairing took a good 79-minutes to subdue their rivals 16-21, 21-19, 24-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mixed doubles final was abandoned midway through the first game as seventh seeds Hiroki Midorikawa-Nami Matsuyama of Japan retired injured while leading 17-14 against Chan Yin Chak-Ng Tsz Yau of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese-Taipei won their sole title at the championships after a grueling encounter in the men\u2019s doubles. Huang Tsung-I-Lin Ting-Yu were given a tough fight by Krishna Prasad Garaga-Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy before they won 26-24, 17-21, 21-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Richie Duta Richardo (Ina) bt Kim Hae-deun (Kor) 21-13, 21-14&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s doubles: &nbsp;<\/strong>Huang Tsung-I-Lin Ting-Yu (Tpe) bt Krishna Prasad Garaga-Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy (Ind) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 26-24, 17-21, 21-18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Rakshita Sree Santhosh Ramraj (Ind) bt Happy Lo Sin Yan (Hkg) 16-21, 21-15, 21-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Gronya Somerville-Jospehine Wu (Aus-Can) bt Miki Kanehiro-Yuna Kato (Jpn) 16-21, 21-19, 24-22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mixed doubles: <\/strong>Chan Yin Chak-Ng Tsz Yau (Hkg) bt Hiroki Midorikawa-Nami Matsuyama (Jpn) 14-17 rtd&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenagers Rakshita Sree Santhosh Ramraj of India and Richie Duta Richardo of Indonesia clinched their third BWF International<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-11027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1.jpg",2003,1125,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1-768x431.jpg",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1-1024x575.jpg",640,359,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1-1536x863.jpg",1536,863,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1.jpg",2003,1125,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/international\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rakshita-Sree-Santhosh-Ramraj-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11029,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions\/11029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}