Frenchman Alex Lanier and the Indian doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty have etched their names in history at the Singapore Open badminton championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They are the first shuttlers from either country to win a title at one of the pioneer tournaments in the world, that held its inaugural tournament in 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lanier dashed the home hopes when he denied former world champion Loh Kean Yew in the men\u2019s singles final. Kean Yew was looking to be the first Singaporean to claim the title since Wee Choon Seng in 1962. But it was Lanier, who took the honours of claiming a maiden win for the French, coming back from an opening game loss to win 17-21, 21-15, 21-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is also the first European since Peter Gade Christiansen in 2006 to win the singles title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lanier was beaten by Kean Yew in the opening round last year but has now increased his head-to-head record against the Singaporean to 3-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the men\u2019s doubles, Satwiksairaj-Chirag continued their smashing form to became the first Indians to win the title in 97-years. The duo claimed their first title in two years with a fighting 18-21, 21-17, 21-16 win over Indonesians Fajar Alfian-Muhammad Shohibul Fikri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They battled for a marathon 73-minutes to signal their return to top flight after coming close to winning the Thailand Open a fortnight ago. They had lost to another Indonesian pair \u2013 Leo Rolly Carnando-Daniel Marthin \u2013 in the final in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The win in Singapore, was also sweet revenge for the Indian pair, who were beaten in the quarter-finals of the Malaysian Open by Fajar-Shohibul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Korean ace An Se-young overcame fever and a determined opponent to claim her third women\u2019s singles title in Singapore. She had won the title in 2023 and 2024 but exited in the quarter-finals last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world number one defeated three-time world champion Akane Yamaguchi 21-11, 17-21, 21-19 in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was the first final meeting between the duo since Yamaguchi defeated Se-young at the Korean Open last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This victory follows her wins at the Asian Individual Championships in April and her unbeaten contribution in Korea\u2019s Uber Cup victory earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the 31st World Women’s Team Championships (Uber Cup, May), marking her third consecutive international tournament win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although she was beaten by China\u2019s Wang Zhiyu at the All-England, Se-young is the most successful player on the circuit this season, having also won the Malaysia Open and India Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Denmark\u2019s Mathias Christiansen-Alexandra B\u00f8je produced a brilliant comeback performance in the mixed doubles final to defeat Japan\u2019s Yuichi Shimogami-Sayaka Hobara 17-21, 21-12, 21-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The victory marks their second tournament title in just three weeks after winning Thailand Open just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The win was also a historic one, with their their triumph in Singapore making them the first European mixed doubles pair ever to win more than one Singapore Open title. They had also claimed the title here in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China\u2019s Jia Yifan-Zhang Shuxian defeated compatriots Liu Shengshu-Tan Ning 22-20, 21-19 to claim the women\u2019s doubles title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FINAL RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Alex Lanier (Fra) bt Loh Kean Yew (Sgp) 17-21, 21-15, 21-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty (Ind) bt Fajar Alfian-Muhammad Shohibul Fikri (Ind) 18-21, 21-17, 21-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s singles: <\/strong>An Se-young (Kor) bt Akane Yamaguchi (Jpn) 21-11, 17-21, 21-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Jia Yifan-Zhang Shuxian (Chn) bt Liu Shengshu-Tan Ning (Chn) 22-20, 21-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mixed doubles: <\/strong>Mathias Christiansen-Alexandra Boje (Den) bt Yuichi Shimogami-Sayaka Hobara (Jpn) 17-21, 21-12, 21-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frenchman Alex Lanier and the Indian doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty have etched their names in history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13301,"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":[7],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-13300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed.jpg",1094,615,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed.jpg",1094,615,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed.jpg",1094,615,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singapore-open-mens-doubles-badminton-finals_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300","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=13300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13302,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions\/13302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}