Badminton Australian Open 2025: Rachel/Febi Win Women's Doubles

Indonesian badminton women's doubles, Rachel Allesya Rose (left) and Febi Setianingrum. (PBSI)

JAKARTA - The couple Rachel Allesya Rose/Febi Setianingrum successfully locked the Australian Open 2025 women's doubles title, after beating another Indonesian pair, Febriana Dwi Puji Kusuma/Meilsya Trias Puspitasari in the final at Quaycentre, Sydney, Sunday.

In the top match, Rachel/Febi lost in the first game before winning with a score of 18-21, 21-19, 23-21.

The Ana/Trias pair are in control of the game in the first game. They are good enough to gain points to stay away from Rachel/Febi's pursuit, even though the interval Ana/Trias have a fairly big advantage of 11-5.

Rachel/Febi had time to improve their performance in the rest of the first game. But they had to give up after Triass hit and made the Ana/Trias pair lock the first game with a score of 21-18.

In the second game, the game between the two Indonesian couples went tight. From the start there was a draw score at 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, before Rachel/Febi could lead 6-4.

The tough game continued until the interval. Ana/Trias led 6-5, before Ana/Trias equalized the score 7-7, and winning 8-7. The score then returned to a 8-8 draw after Rachel/Febi were able to reply to the loss of one point earlier.

Ana/Trias kemudian kembali unggul tipi 11-10 atas lawannya saat interval. Setelah itu, Rachel/Febi lebih banyak lagu sebelum mereka kemudian mengaksakan skor selar 17-17.

When Rachel/Febi led 20-18, Ana/Trias still had time to catch up to change the score to 20-19. However, Rachel/Febi were able to secure the 21-19 advantage, and forced the third game to play.

Ana/Trias immediately carved out five consecutive points at the beginning of the third game. Even Ana/Trias had gone far enough to interval 11-7.

After that, the two Indonesian couples took turns winning points. Rachel/Febi were then able to catch up at 15-15.

Ana/Trias did not remain silent seeing the efforts to revive their opponents, they managed to disrupt Rachel/Febi's momentum, but the opponent was again able to catch up to force the score to draw 18-18.

Until the match was over, fierce resistance was shown by the two pairs, before Rachel/Febi finally confirmed a 23-21 victory that made them worthy of winning the Australian Open 2025 women's doubles.