Congratulations to Singapore's Men's World Badminton Champion, the island state's first World Champion in any event. 24 year old Loh Kean Yew is aggressively fast on the court, very cute and with a killer smile. But he is also dead straight (and sorry this is not really a Gay Singapore subject). Maybe he'll change his orientation if he meets another cute Asian badminton player - of which there are many! 😉

According to the Bangkok Post, the mixed doubles has been won by the same Thai pair, who were the topic of posts on this forum about a year ago.

Yes. Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai played magnificently throughout the tournament. It was just a pity that the Japanese boy, the excellent Yuta Watanabe, was hampered by injury, otherwise I'm sure the final match would have gone to three sets. But that is not to take anything away from the Thais victory.

Thailand has had a World Champion before in the Ladies Singles when Ratchanok Inthanon became the top Women's Singles player in 2013 and the youngest ever to hold the title at the age of only 18. She also became the first Thai to reach a World No. ! ranking in 2016.

Increasingly I find badminton a great sport to watch on television, especially the mens singles, the mixed doubles and the often incredibly fast mens doubles matches.