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ndonesia garnered a positive vibe from Victor Korea Open Superseries badminton championships in Seoul as its women'€™s doubles Greysia Polii/Nitya Krishinda Maheswari outclassed hosts to grab their first Superseries title as partners on Sunday.

In the finals, world number five Greysia/Nitya beat Chang Ye-na/Lee So-hee of South Korea 21-15, 21-18 in no sweat within 48 minutes.

'€œThis [title] is for Indonesia, for Indonesian women'€™s doubles. We did our best on the court, and we really wanted to win here,'€ said Greysia after the match at SK Handball Stadium as quoted by an Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI) press release.

Greysia went on to say despite all the confidence that her opponents might have for playing in front of a home crowd, she and Nitya relied on their fighting spirit for the victory.

'€œWe loved playing here, it felt like home. We were backed by our supporters '€” Indonesians who came [to the stadium] for us,'€ she added.

Greysia/Nitya'€™s successful fight was expected as their opponents were far below them, sitting at number 115 in the world ranking.

Acknowledging Lee'€™s laudable attacks and powerful lobs, Nitya said that she and Greysia had decided to avoid lobs as one of their strategies.

'€œ[Our strategy] worked. The hardest part was actually controlling ourselves. We knew their playing, but we couldn'€™t rush to cut them off,'€ she added.

Meanwhile, the country'€™s other title hopeful, world number two Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir in mixed doubles, failed to win a thriller final match against world number one Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei of China.

Tontowi/Liliyana surrendered at 21-16, 21-15, failing to gain at least one win in their seventh meeting.

'€œWe actually had opportunities [to win the match], but every time we led they caught us again because we made blunders,'€ said Liliyana, adding that the Indonesians were often trapped in the Chinese'€™s playing.

'€œMostly in the second game, there were too many errors. Mistakes happen in any game, but when you produce too many blunders straight away, it will boost your opponent'€™s confidence,'€ said the mixed double specialist Liliyana, who nailed a gold medal at the 2013 World Championships with Tontowi and a silver medal at 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing when partnered with Nova Widianto.

In men'€™s singles, top seed Chen Long of China successfully defended his Korea Open title, ending the run of world number 30 Ajay Jayaram in straight games 21-14, 21-13.

In women'€™s singles, sixth-seeded South Korean Sung Ji-Hyun took the singles title, upsetting fourth-seeded China'€™s Wang Yihan 21-14, 17-21, 21-18.

In the all-Korean men'€™s doubles final, top seeds Lee Yong-dae and Yoo Yeon-seong were too strong for fellow countrymen Kim Gi-jung and Kim Sa-rang, winning 21-16, 21-12.
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