"Shuttlecock Empress" Ahn Se-young (23, Samsung Life Insurance) won three consecutive tournaments in 2025 by beating her archrival Chen Yu-fei (China).
Ahn Se-young won the 2025 Orléans Masters final in Orléans, France, on the 9th (21-14, 21-15) with a game score of 2-0 (21-14, 21-15).
In January, her first competition of the year, Ahn won consecutive gold medals at the Malaysian Open and Indian Open. She achieved 10 consecutive wins without losing a single game. She lost one game in the semi-final against Kaofangze of China, failing to win the "perfect" title, but she proved her "best" skills once again by beating her former No. 1 ranking rival Chen Yufei in the final. It was her 15th consecutive win this year, and she has won gold medals in three consecutive competitions.
The Orléans Masters was the prelude to next week's "badminton's Wimbledon" Jeon Young Open. Ahn, who won the championship in 2023, lost to Akane Yamaguchi in the semifinal last year. Ahn, who is trying to regain her title, finished the rehearsal stage (Orléans Masters).
Ahn, who gave up the first point in the first game, induced Chen Yu-fei to tie the game at 1-2, and successfully turned the tables by pushing the opponent's short hairpin once again. At 3-2, she widened the score gap by inserting the shuttlecock into the opponent's court with a diagonal half smash.
Ahn grabbed the victory by scoring six straight points at 8-6. He scored a hairpin error with a diagonal drop shot at 10-6, and a high clear at 11-6. After briefly slowing down by losing two consecutive points at 14-6, Ahn rekindled his momentum by sending a drop shot in front of the right-hand net of Chen Yufei at 14-8, and finishing the shuttlecock he barely managed to score with a backhand diagonal half smash.
Ahn continued his offensive late in the first game. He shook Chen Yufei's defense with two jump smashes at 17-10, then launched a diagonal push attack to run away by eight points. He took his breath by giving up three consecutive points at 18-10, but cut off the bad flow with a high-clear error induction at 18-13, and filled the 21st with a smash that stabbed the opponent in the left corner at the game point. 안전놀이터
Ahn continued his momentum by scoring five points in two consecutive games 1-1. At 6-2, Ahn displayed his "funny" by treating Chen Yu-fei's diagonal smash with a diagonal robe without looking at the target point.
In the final of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, Ahn Se-young also won 2-1 over Chen Yu-fei with the same physical strength as "steel." He had a knee injury at the end of the first game, but after holding out for two games, he won three games. Chen Yu-fei looked tired or couldn't get up for a while after collapsing on the court.
Chen even had a six-month break after the Paris Olympics last year. On the other hand, Ahn maintained her sense of play by competing in international competitions. She took sufficient rest and rehabilitation treatment to control her injury during the competition.
Ahn took the 10-point lead with six points from two games to lead, and widened the gap by scoring four points in a row at 10-5. Ahn briefly struggled with Chen Yu-fei, who made wider use of the court than at the beginning of the second game, but scored 19-13 to create championship points, eventually ending the match at 20-15. The play time was 45 minutes. She also had her 10th win (12 losses) against Chen Yu-fei.