Chinese Taipei women's player Song Shuoyun defeated India's 20-year-old female player Udipayaya at the Super 300 Series 2025 German Open Badminton Championships in the early morning of the 27th at 21:18, 25:27, 21:18 and advanced to the top 16 of women's singles.

Chinese Taipei women's player Song Shuoyun

World No. 20 Song Shuoyun has stopped in the first round of the Malaysia Open and India Open this season, but the Indonesia Masters advanced to the quarterfinals, equalling her best result in the 500 class, and this time she was seeded third in Germany. Udipayaya, ranked 44th in the world, was ranked No. 1 in the junior world.

Song Shuoyun and Udipaya have won 1 win each in the past two games, and now they meet in the German race, Song Shuoyun led all the way in the first game, and has a maximum advantage of 9 points, even if he was chased by the opponent to 18:19, Song Shuoyun stabilized in time to take the next 2 points first. However, although Song Shuoyun maintained a small lead in the second game, she was never able to widen the gap, and even missed two final points of the game, but was pulled back by Udipayaya.

Song Shuoyun scored 11:9 in the deciding game, but after changing sides, he lost 5 points in a row and became 12:15 behind, Song Shuoyun fortunately was not pulled away by the opponent, and also worked hard to chase the score and scored 6 points in a row from 14:17, and finally held the game and stepped into the round of 16 without danger. Song Shuoyun will face world No. 41 Japanese player Riko Kori in the round of 16, and it will be the first time that the two sides have met.

In addition, the second seed in the women's singles, the Chinese-American women's player Zhang Beiwen, withdrew, and another good player in Chinese Taipei, Dong Qiutong, advanced to the round of 16 without blood, and will fight for the opportunity to advance with the Indian 19-year-old Mir.