October 2020 Sports

• Nozomi Okuhara clinches Women's Singles title at Denmark Open
  In Badminton, former Japanese World Champion Nozomi Okuhara clinched the Denmark Open title beating three-time world champion Carolina Marin in women's singles.
  
  Highlights:
  The Japanese star took 56 minutes to get the better of the Olympic gold medallist Spaniard in two games 21-19, 21-17, at Odense.
  
  With reigning world champion PV Sindhu of India opting to sit out the event, two of her biggest rivals made it through to the final.
  
  In the men's singles final, world number seven Anders Antonsen of Denmark defeated his compatriot Rasmus Gemke by 18-21, 21-19, 21-12.
  
  In the mixed doubles, fourth seeds Mark Lamsfuss and Isabel Herttrich became the first German mixed doubles players to win a Super Series event after defeating Chris and Gabby Adcock of England in the final 18-21, 21-11, 21-14.
  
  In an all-Japan women's doubles final, top seeds Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota downed second seeds Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara 21-10, 16-21, 21-18.
  
  Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge of England defeated Russian pair Valdimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov 20-22, 21-17, 21-18, becoming the first England pair to clinch the title of men's doubles in the Denmark Open for 45 years.
  
  
• French Open: Rafael Nadal gains victory against Italy's Jannik Sinner
  Claycourt master Rafael Nadal passed his first real test of this year's French Open with a 7-6(4) 6-4 6-1 victory against the Italian rising star Jannik Sinner as his quest for a record-breaking 13th title gathered momentum Yesterday. The Spaniard, also looking to match Roger Federer's record of 20 Grand Slam men's singles titles, was stretched by the 19-year-old Sinner.
  
  In another quarter final match, Argentina's Diego Schwartzman outlasted third seeded Dominic Thiem to win 7-6(1) 5-7 6-7(6) 7-6(5) 6-2 and reach his first French Open semi-final.

Published date : 30 Oct 2020 01:12PM