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Let’s gander through some of the most relevant stats at KFF Singapore Open 2025.

• Women’s pair Shinta Mulia Sari/Yao Lei remain the most recent Singaporeans to emerge victorious (2010).
• Singapore, however, are the sole nation to sweep clean the honours – way back in 1961. This time, China are the only contingent to possess seeds in all five categories.
• Should China win four of those, they would overtake Indonesia for second place on the all-time winners’ table with a total of 63 gold medals.
• Defend his crown and Shi Yu Qi would accomplish a feat none of his countrymen have in 22 years in men’s singles. Chen Hong was the last Chinese to ace consecutive editions (2003).
• With three seeds – Wang Zhi Yi (2), Han Yue (3) and Chen Yu Fei (5), China will be eager to reclaim the women’s singles title won by Sun Yu in 2015.
• Success will make An Se Young the first player to win three seasons in a row since Zhang Ning in 2005.
• That means, the Korean stands to become the maiden women’s singles star to achieve a hattrick in the SuperSeries/World Tour era (from 2007).
• Korea’s final women’s doubles triumph came 34 years ago in 1991 courtesy of Chung Myung Hee/Chung So Young. Third seeds Baek Ha Na/Lee So Hee and seventh seeds Kim Hye Jeong/Kong Hee Yong are their best bets to end the lean spell.
• In men’s doubles, they have celebrated titlists just once – Kim Moon Soo/Park Joo Bong, also in 1991. World No.10s Kim Won Ho/Seo Seung Jae are seeded fifth this year.
• Malaysia too have endured a long wait in men’s doubles – no pairs triumphed in the category after Zakry Latif/Fairuzizuan Tazari in 2008.
• Interestingly, they boast the highest number of seeded pairs this year – three – led by newly-crowned world No.1s Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin, although all are in the bottom half.
• Apart from Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen and Liu Sheng Shu/Tan Ning, the rest of the top seeds have previously won their events.
• Among them, Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Jemie Lai have experienced the longest drought –their solitary strike came in 2018.
• Sapsiree Taerattanachai appears at her 11th successive Singapore Open. The two-time champion has competed every year since 2013 – the longest active streak.
• Chou Tien Chen is just one behind, having played at nine straight editions since 2014.

Standout Stat: Beginning 2011, the same four countries have produced winners in men’s and women’s doubles – China, Indonesia, Denmark and Japan.