( Nozomi Okuhara & Pornpawee Chochuwong)
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Patna : Second seed Nozomi Okuhara, 26, Japan, beat 6th seed Pornpawee Chochuwong, 23, Thailand, in straight games in the final on march 21, 2021, to win the women’s singles title at Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships, an HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1,000 event, at Birmingham, England.
World No 4 & 2017 World Champion Nozomi Okuhara defeated World No 11 Pornpawee Chochuwong in straight games 21-12, 21-16 in 44 minutes in final. Okuhara won 42 rallies in the match to 28 by Chochuwong. The Japanese, a former World No 1, won 5 consecutive points in the match to 3 by the Thai. Okuhara, who had defeated World No 6 Ratchanok Intanon, Thailand, in semi-finals, now leads Chochuwong 5-1 Head to Head.