An Se Young continued her outstanding dominance at LI-NING China Masters 2026, defeating Tomoka Miyazaki 21-17 21-6 to say her seventh particular person title of the season.
The victory additionally made An the primary participant to win the match three years in a row, whereas extending her excellent head-to-head file in opposition to Miyazaki to 8-0. Much more impressively, the Korean didn’t drop a single sport all through the week, with none of her opponents managing greater than 28 factors a match.
“I’m so pleased with myself. I’m actually happy with the consequence and I really feel so blissful,” the world No.1 stated after including one other trophy to an already extraordinary season.
It places her heading in the right direction to surpass her record-equalling haul of 11 particular person titles final yr, though the reigning Olympic and world champion acknowledges the problem will solely intensify as a brand new era emerges.
“There are numerous gamers developing and difficult. I don’t assume any match might be taken calmly,” she stated, stressing the necessity to preserve growing and discovering areas to enhance.
World No.9 Miyazaki offered real resistance early on, forcing An deep into the courtroom and disrupting her rhythm. However the 24-year-old remained composed.
“Tomoka put me beneath numerous stress, which left me a bit flustered,” An admitted. “However I attempted to calmly preserve my tempo and tried to not rush.”
An now heads dwelling to organize for her gold-medal defence on the Asian Video games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, later this month.
