JAKARTA - Putri Kusuma Wardani successfully won the last match of the 2025 BWF World Tour Finals Group B round against Tomoka Miyazaki.
The 23-year-old shuttler stopped the Japanese representative in a two-game match 21-17 and 21-9 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium, Hangzhou, China, on Friday, December 19, 2025.
"I am certainly grateful to be able to win against Tomoka today because in the previous two meetings I always lost to him in a row," Putri said in a statement received.
The latest victory makes Putri now ahead 4-3 win-loss against Tomoka. However, in the two previous clashes at the 2025 Denmark Open and French Open, she always lost.
Putri had previously been confirmed to be eliminated in the group stage after losing the first two matches against world number one An Se-young and Akane Yamaguchi.
"I am quite satisfied to be able to play here because it is not easy to fight for a full year to be able to appear at the World Tour Finals," said the Tangerang-born badminton player.
From Group A, which was inhabited by Putri and Tomoka, the semi-final tickets were obtained by An Se-young and Akane Yamaguchi. The South Korean singles qualified as group champions after winning against Yamaguchi in the last match.
An Se-young successfully swept all three matches of the preliminary round with victory. In addition to defeating Putri and Akane, he also won against Tomoka.
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