At the Badminton British Open, the mixed doubles final was also a match between Japanese players, and the pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino won the championship for the first time in three years.
Watanabe has also won the men's doubles and is the first Japanese player to win two tournaments.
At the Badminton British Open, which has a history of more than 100 years, the mixed doubles final was held on the 21st, and the pair of Watanabe and Higashino, who ranked 6th in the world, was Yuki Kaneko and Misaki Matsutomo, who ranked 23rd in the world. I played against a pair of players.
In the first game, a pair of Watanabe and Higashino attacked with a breathtaking combination and took the lead from beginning to end, taking 21 to 14.
The pair of Watanabe and Higashino also won the second game for the first time in three years with a straight win of 2-0 in the game count, pushing the opponent out with 5 consecutive points at the end of the game and taking 21 to 13.
The 23-year-old Watanabe has won the men's doubles final for the second time in a row, and was the first Japanese player to win the championship at the British Open.