A young Sapsiree Taerattanachai at the 2013 Singapore Open.
Smashing Stats: Singapore Open 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
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Let’s gander through some of the most relevant stats at KFF Singapore Open 2025.
Women’s pair Shinta Mulia Sari/Yao Lei remain the most recent Singaporeans to emerge victorious (2010).
Singapore, however, are the sole nation to sweep clean the honours – way back in 1961. This time, China are the only contingent to possess seeds in all five categories.
Should China win four of those, they would overtake Indonesia for second place on the all-time winners’ table with a total of 63 gold medals.
Defend his crown and Shi Yu Qi would accomplish a feat none of his countrymen have in 22 years in men’s singles. Chen Hong was the last Chinese to ace consecutive editions (2003).
With three seeds – Wang Zhi Yi (2), Han Yue (3) and Chen Yu Fei (5), China will be eager to reclaim the women’s singles title won by Sun Yu in 2015.
Success will make An Se Young the first player to win three seasons in a row since Zhang Ning in 2005.
That means, the Korean stands to become the maiden women’s singles star to achieve a hattrick in the SuperSeries/World Tour era (from 2007).
Korea’s final women’s doubles triumph came 34 years ago in 1991 courtesy of Chung Myung Hee/Chung So Young. Third seeds Baek Ha Na/Lee So Hee and seventh seeds Kim Hye Jeong/Kong Hee Yong are their best bets to end the lean spell.
In men’s doubles, they have celebrated titlists just once – Kim Moon Soo/Park Joo Bong, also in 1991. World No.10s Kim Won Ho/Seo Seung Jae are seeded fifth this year.
Malaysia too have endured a long wait in men’s doubles – no pairs triumphed in the category after Zakry Latif/Fairuzizuan Tazari in 2008.
Interestingly, they boast the highest number of seeded pairs this year – three – led by newly-crowned world No.1s Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin, although all are in the bottom half.
Apart from Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen and Liu Sheng Shu/Tan Ning, the rest of the top seeds have previously won their events.
Among them, Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Jemie Lai have experienced the longest drought –their solitary strike came in 2018.
Sapsiree Taerattanachai appears at her 11th successive Singapore Open. The two-time champion has competed every year since 2013 – the longest active streak.
Chou Tien Chen is just one behind, having played at nine straight editions since 2014.
Standout Stat: Beginning 2011, the same four countries have produced winners in men’s and women’s doubles – China, Indonesia, Denmark and Japan.