Eight players ascended to the top of the podium in five disciplines on Sunday at the 2016 Vietnam Open Grand Prix.  Indonesia’s Rosyita Eka Putri Sari returned to win back the women’s doubles title she won two years ago but her partner and all six other winners were to taste Grand Prix success for the first time in their careers.

The youngest one was 17-year-old Yeo Jia Min The Singaporean, who was unseeded, claimed her first professional title at the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Grand Prix yesterday. In the men’s singles final, Wong Wing Ki of Hong Kong was fifth time lucky, after being unsuccessful in four previous Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold finals, going back to New Zealand in 2009, when he was one of the rare teenagers to reach a major men’s singles final.

The Vietnam Open was the last senior international event before the Rio Olympic Games.  While there were several Olympians in action this week in Ho Chi Minh City, none survived until finals day.  The most worrying of these were the mid-match retirements of both of the home shuttlers who are Rio bound, Nguyen Tien Minh and Vu Thi Trang.

Final results
WD:  Della Destiara Haris / Rosyita Eka Putri Sari (INA) [3] beat Tiara Rosalia Nuraidah Rizki Amelia Pradipta (INA) [5]  21-11, 21-15
MS:  Wong Wing Ki (HKG) [4] beat Chong Wei Feng (MAS) [11]  21-12, 14-21, 21-13
XD:  Tan Kian Meng / Lai Pei Jing (MAS) [3] beat Alfian Eko Prasetya / Annisa Saufika (INA) [4]  21-16, 21-11
WS:  Yeo Jia Min (SIN) beat Ayumi Mine (JPN)  21-14, 21-17
MD:  Lee Jhe-Huei / Lee Yang (TPE) [2] beat Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong (MAS) [1]  18-21, 21-14, 21-7