- ARAB NEWS
- 30 Apr 2025
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DENPASAR (Indonesia): World champion Kento Momota beat Anders Antonsen in the Indonesia Masters final on Sunday, his first win at an international tournament since being badly injured in a car accident last year.
Momota thumped the Danish third seed 21-17, 21-11 on the resort island of Bali, where the tournament was held as the first of three back-to-back competitions culminating in the season-ending World Tour Finals.
The world’s best badminton player, with a record 11 titles in 2019, Momota was almost forced to retire after a car crash in January last year left him with career-threatening injuries.
He fractured his eye socket in the accident, which killed the driver of the car he was in.
When he returned for his Olympic debut in Tokyo this year, he crashed out in the group stage, blaming his own “weakness”.
AFP
