The ‘golden combination’ Won-ho Kim and Seung-jae Seo (Samsung Life Insurance) achieved their 10th victory this year.
The world No. 1 pair of Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae achieved a 2-1 (20-22, 21-11, 21-16) comeback victory over Hiroki Midorikawa and Kyohei Yamashita (Japan) in the final of the 2025 Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour Super 500 Japan Masters held in Kumamoto, Japan on the 16th.
Prior to this tournament, Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae reached the top of the Super 1000 series three times, including the World Championships, the Malaysia Open, All England Open, and Indonesia Open, three times the Super 750 series, including the Japan Open, China Masters, and French Open, and the Korea Open (Super 500) and German Open (Super 300).
The pair of Hiroki and Kyohei, who met twice before and won both, and the pair of Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae, who met in the finals of the competition, once again achieved victory without any upset and took home the championship title.
Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae, who had maintained a clean sheet from the round of 32 to the semifinals, were shaken for the first time on this day when they lost to Hiroki and Kyohei 20-22 in the first game.
However, they showed overwhelming class right from the second game. They started to widen the gap by scoring 5 points from the beginning and won 21-11, and in the 3rd game when the opponent was in a strong pursuit, they ran away with a double score at one point and won the game.
Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae will also challenge for the top spot at the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, which will be held in Hangzhou, China, starting on the 17th of next month.
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