28 Might, 2025
Harry Huang led the best way for England on the Austrian Open as he claimed the silver medal within the males’s singles competitors.
The Tremendous 750 competitors additionally noticed a podium end for Lisa Curtin and Sian Kelly within the girls’s doubles, as they took dwelling a bronze medal in a profitable event for English gamers.
Huang progressed by the quarter-finals by beating Singapore’s Lau Jun Hui Marcus 21-9 21-12 in straight video games.
It arrange a semi-final conflict towards Chinese language Taipei’s Liao Jhuo-Fu, leading to a mammoth battle on the courtroom.
Huang took the primary benefit as he gained the primary recreation 21-16 however Liao hit again to assert the second set 23-21.
Because the match stretched to over an hour in size, Huang remained composed to ship a 21-14 victory within the ultimate recreation and progress to the gold medal match.
Within the ultimate, Huang met high seed Magnus Johannesen and fell to 21-17 21-14 defeat towards the Dane however secured the silver medal to be England’s greatest performer on the competitors.
Curtin and Kelly had been in good kind to achieve the semi-finals of the ladies’s doubles after defeating Singaporean duo Tay Andrea Jacqui and Teo Eng Kerin 21-5 21-11 in simply 24 minutes within the quarter-finals.
They confronted Chinese language Taipei’s Lin Chih-Chun and Lin Wan Ching within the semi-final with the pair offering a check too far as Curtin and Kelly fell to 21-11 21-11 defeat.
Notably, Robin Harper and Harry Wakefield additionally got here near a semi-final spot within the males’s doubles as they took their quarter-final tie to an exhilarating third recreation.
Going through Singapore’s Donovan Willard Wee and Jia Hao Howin Wong, they fell to an agonising 18-21 21-18 20-22 defeat.
Within the girls’s singles, Freya Redfearn opened up with a 21-18 21-18 win over Finland’s Heli Neiman earlier than falling to India’s Adita Rao within the final 16.
Photograph credit score: Jnanesh Salian through Badminton Photograph
