Nguyen Thuy Linh lost the final, only won the women's singles runner-up at the 2025 Korean Masters badminton tournament.

Losing 0-2 to Chiu Pin-chian (Taiwan) in the final held today, Nguyen Thuy Linh received the title of runner-up in the women's singles at the Korea Masters 2025 badminton tournament.

Nguyen Thuy Linh has not been able to break the curse

For the fourth time in her career, winning the right to enter the final of a badminton tournament in the World Tour Super 300 system of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), Vietnam's No. 1 tennis player Nguyen Thuy Linh is trying to find her first championship title because she lost in the final in the previous 3 times.

Nguyen Thuy Linh lost in the final of the 2025 Korean Masters badminton tournament.

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That determination was shown by Nguyen Thuy Linh (ranked 24th in the world) right from the start in the final match of the 2025 Korean Masters badminton tournament taking place today, facing Chiu Pin-chian (Taiwan, ranked 20th in the world). This is considered a "dream final" of the 2025 Korean Masters badminton tournament because Chiu Pin-chian is the number 1 seed and Nguyen Thuy Linh is the number 2 seed.

Nguyen Thuy Linh and Chiu Pin-chian fought fiercely for each point before the number 1 Vietnamese player continuously missed shots, helping the Taiwanese player take the lead 17/13 and then win 21/16 in set 1. This was a set where Nguyen Thuy Linh repeatedly wanted to hit difficult shots to score points but lacked accuracy.

Nguyen Thuy Linh has been in the finals of the international badminton tournament in the World Tour Super 300 system 4 times but has not been able to reach the highest podium.

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With determination in the second set, Nguyen Thuy Linh created a 2-point gap (6/4) but let Chiu Pin-chian score 5 points in a row to lead 9/6. In her haste to recover the points, Nguyen Thuy Linh repeated the same mistake as in the first set. The Taiwanese player widened the gap to 6 points (15/9) then won 21/16, closing the final victory 2-0 and becoming the women's singles champion of the 2025 Korean Masters badminton tournament.

For the fourth time finishing second in the tournament in the World Tour Super 300 system, Nguyen Thuy Linh received 9,120 USD (about 230 million VND) in prize money from the organizing committee and 5,950 bonus points on the BWF rankings.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/nguyen-thuy-linh-thua-chung-ket-chi-gianh-a-quan-don-nu-giai-cau-long-han-quoc-masters-2025-185251109094911207.htm