The 2025 Malaysia Badminton Super 500 singles final has a lot to watch, and all four of them have a chance to win the first championship of the season

One of the big surprises of the 2025 Malaysia Badminton Super 500 Tournament is that India's Men's Singles Srikanth, who started from the qualifiers, made it all the way to the final, while China's Women's Singles Wang Zhiyi is just one step away from defending her title. Former world number one and world runner-up Srikanth, who was recuperating for nearly half a year after recuperating in the second half of the year due to a serious injury sustained last year, dropped to 94th in the world rankings after his comeback this year, and he is entering the Malaysia Masters this week with the world number 65 and therefore having to start in qualifying.

Srikan is still young, starting from the qualifiers and reaching the final of this year's Malaysia Badminton Masters

With a 21-18, 24-22 defeat of Japan's world No. 24 Yushi Tanaka in the men's singles semifinals on the 24th, the 32-year-old Srikanth made it six times in a row to advance to the final. Srikanth's two-match win to make it to the main draw was followed by victories over China's No.6 seed Lu Guangzu, Ireland's Ruan Ri and France's Thomas Sri. Popov.

After 4 years, he reached the final of the international competition. Srikanth, who reached the men's singles world number one in 2018, last reached the final at the 2021 Badminton World Championships, where he lost to Singapore's Loh Kean Yew to finish runner-up.

Srikanth's most recent title was the 2017 French Open during the Superseries period. As a result, Josrikanth will win his first World Tour title (from 2018) in the final against China's world No. 4 Li Shifeng in the final on the 25th.

After knocking out Kodai Naraoka, Lee Sze Fung successfully reached the men's singles final and set his sights on becoming the first Chinese men's singles player in history to win the Malaysian Badminton Super 500 championship

Li Shifeng won 5 consecutive victories over Japan's "Mill King" Naraoka. Li Shifeng defeated Japan's world No. 8 Kodai Naraoka 21-15 in two games in the other men's singles semi-final, winning the last five meetings between the two sides. This is Li Shifeng's second finalist after nearly half a year after winning the Kumamoto Super 500 in November last year. He will next go on to win his first title this year, becoming the first Chinese men's singles champion in the Malaysia Super 500.

Wang Zhiyi (right) finally ended a six-game losing streak against Intanon and shook hands with Intanon after the match

The Women's Singles final will begin a Chinese civil war, with world No. 2 defending champion Wang Zhiyi facing world No. 3 Han Yue to secure the title in advance. Top seed Wang Zhiyi snapped a six-game losing streak against the former Thai world champion with a 21-17, 21-16 win over Thailand's world No. 11 Intanon in the semifinals.

Wang Zhiyi has reached the finals of the Malaysia competition for the third time in a row. He has met Intanon eight times in his career so far, and this is the second time Wang Zhiyi has won, and her first victory also happened to be in the Malaysia Super 500 in 2020. This is the third consecutive time that Ong has qualified for the final in Malaysia after winning the Malaysia Masters last year and finishing runner-up at the Malaysia Open (Super 1000) in January this year.

Han Yue faced Akane Yamaguchi in the semi-finals and celebrated with excitement when she scored a point. In the end, Han Yue won 2 games in straight sets and successfully entered the finals

Han Yue repelled Akane Yamaguchi. Han Yue defeated Akane Yamaguchi, another former world champion and Japan's world No. 4, 21-19, 21-16 on the 24th. Both Chinese women's singles teams will be fighting for their first title of the year in tomorrow's civil war.