HS Prannoy vs Weng Hong Yang, Australian Open badminton Live: Prannoy looks to add to Malaysia Masters title

12:18 (IST)

Results of finals so far at the Australian Open today:

Beiwen Zhang beat Ga Eun Kim 20-22, 21-16, 21-8 in women's singles

Feng Yan Zhe/Huang Dong Ping beat Hiroki Midorikawa/Natsu Saito 21-14, 16-21, 21-15 in mixed doubles

So Yeong Kim/Hee Yong Kong beat Sheng Shu Liu/Ning Tan 21-18, 21-16 in women's doubles

12:10 (IST)

HS Prannoy on playing Weng Hong Yang

"Weng is very tricky, he can play big matches. In last six months, he has gone out there and beaten a lot of big names. So it is not easy and especially being a left-hander, he has a lot of advantage over a lot of players. But finals is a final and I will go all out tomorrow."

12:03 (IST)

HS Prannoy head-to-head with Weng Hong Yang

HS Prannoy leads 1-0. Their only meeting came in the final of the Malaysia Masters which helped him win his first individual title in six years in May. That day, Prannoy had triumphed 21-19, 13-21, 21-18

12:00 (IST)

HS Prannoy after win over Rajawat

"It is very satisfying (to win), because it is always tough to play continuously against the top 10 players and beating them and if you look at the men's singles section, somebody from 30s and 40s are also very tough these days," Prannoy said after the win.

"Last two years have been good for me, I have been consistently able to pull off matches and this year has been special and I hope I can do something similar to what I did in Malaysia," he said. 

11:56 (IST)

Australian Open badminton Final Live

HS Prannoy has a Malaysian Masters rematch against Weng Hong Yang in the final of the Australian Open Super 500 event. He is here courtesy a convincing and dominant straight games win over Priyanshu Rajawat in the semi-finals