Asian Leg Review: Dynamic Duo Shift Gears
When Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai started their Asian Leg campaign in early January, the highest-level titles they’d won was World Tour Super 500 events in Korea and Singapore. Over three weeks…
· DEV SUKUMAR
When Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai started their Asian Leg campaign in early January, the highest-level titles they’d won was World Tour Super 500 events in Korea and Singapore. Over three weeks in January, not only did the Thais capture back-to-back Super 1000 events, they wrapped up the Asian Leg with the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2020.
It was a superlative spell by any measure.
Puavaranukroh and Taerattanachai have been one of the premier pairs over the last three years or so, a period dominated by two Chinese pairs – Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong and Wang Yi Lyu/Huang Dong Ping. The absence of the Chinese and the Japanese (Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino) in Bangkok did ease the path for others in the draw; yet, it needed exceptional physical and mental capabilities to win three major events in a row.