On This Day: Quartet Create a Fuzhou China Open First
The Fuzhou China Open had never seen back-to-back winners in three categories since its inception in 2005.
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On this day last year, that changed thanks to Kento Momota (men’s singles), Chen Yu Fei (women’s singles) and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (men’s doubles).
Prior to that, the tournament that witnessed Chinese players sweeping clean all five events six out of 15 times, had just once had sequential winners in more than one category – in 2011 and 2012 when Chen Long and mixed pair Xu Chen-Ma Jin rose to the top of the podium.
The legendary Lin Dan (2009, 2010) – the competition’s most successful athlete with six titles – and Liu Xin (2013, 2014) are the only other players to bag two straight crowns.