Gain after pain: BCA Director Armand W Utomo (Center) hands ,prize check to Chinese pair Tang Jinhua (right) and Tian Qing at the end of their final match against Indonesiaâs Nitya Krishinda Maheswari (left) and Greysia Polii in the BCA Indonesia Open badminton championship on Sunday
span class="caption">Gain after pain: BCA Director Armand W Utomo (Center) hands ,prize check to Chinese pair Tang Jinhua (right) and Tian Qing at the end of their final match against Indonesia's Nitya Krishinda Maheswari (left) and Greysia Polii in the BCA Indonesia Open badminton championship on Sunday. The Chinese pair won 21-13, 21-10.(Antara/Prasetyo Utomo)
Women's doubles pair Greysia Polii/Nitya Krishinda Maheswari was crushed by China's Tang Jinhua/Tian Qing in the final of the 2015 Bank Central Asia (BCA) Indonesia Open on Sunday as Indonesia ended the six-day competition without a title for the second year in a row.
Greysia/Nitya started off promisingly, racing to a 9-4 lead, but their newly paired opponents recovered to level the score at 10-10 before conceding another point before the interval.
After the break, the show became a lopsided affair, with the Chinese taking 11 points on the trot to close the first game 21-11.
Tang/Tian did not relent on the offensive in the second half, racing to an 11-4 lead. Greysia and Nitya were palpably desperate as they tried to withstand the onslaught, and the boisterous home support inside the Istora Senayan began to falter.
With the Indonesian pair able to collect only six more points, the Chinese sealed the match with a 21-10 win.
'We prepared ourselves well before facing them, but we didn't expect to win this easily,' Tian Qing told reporters after the match.
She said that she and her partner had relaxed in order to develop their game.
'[Our opponents] also seemed to have used up all their energy in the previous round,' said Tian Qing.
Greysia was not overly downbeat about the result, saying that she was grateful to have reached the final.
'We played all out. So did the opponents. They had prepared well for the final. They showed good footwork and speed and their attacks were right on target,' Greysia said.
'They were really consistent and made few mistakes. They seemed to anticipate all our attacks. We will be better from now on,' she added.
In men's singles, defending champion Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark was overthrown by Japan's wonder boy Kento Momota, who once again showed remarkable resilience throughout the match.
The encounter had looked to be going in favor of Jorgensen, the Dane sealing the first game 21-16 and continuing his consistent play to lead 5-2 in the second game.
But Momota refused to sit back. He upped his game to score eight consecutive points, only to allow Jorgensen to catch back up.
But after being tied at 16-16, Momota did not allow his opponent a second comeback as he ended the game 21-19. The Japanese was unstoppable from then on, storming to a 21-7 win in the third game.
'I clearly had my chances
'In the third game, he got a good start and he made some easy points and I made some mistakes and then suddenly he had a big lead and it's tough to catch up,' said Jorgensen.
In contrast, Momota was all smiles during the press conference, expressing delight at defeating the defending champion.
In women's singles, after an unaccomplished mission last year, former world champion Ratchanok Intanon was back in the final and this time the Thai proved too strong for her opponent, Japanese Yui Hashimoto. Intanon grabbed her first title of the tournament with a convincing 21-11, 21-10 victory.
Xu Chen/Ma Jin crushed compatriots Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei 21-17, 21-16 to win the mixed doubles title, while the men's doubles title went to Ko Sung-hyun/Shin Baek-choel of South Korea, who overcame China's Fu Haifeng/Zhang Nan 21-16, 16-21, 21-19.w
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