Two Indian singles titles, a first World Tour title for an unseeded Danish pair, and a mixed doubles final that went to 21-18 in the third. The Hylo Open closed the European month on Sunday 1 November with three of the five finals won by the lower seed.
Men’s singles: Lakshya Sen
Lakshya Sen (India) bt Jonatan Christie (Indonesia) 21-17, 21-10.
Christie came to Saarbrücken as defending champion and reached the final without finishing his semi-final, Anders Antonsen retiring at 21-18, 13-16. Sen, seeded seventh, had done it the hard way: three games against Kiran George, three against Kalle Koljonen, then a clean 21-17, 21-13 over Toma Junior Popov. The first game was close until the end; the second ran away from Christie. Their head-to-head now stands at 4-4.
Women’s singles: Pusarla V. Sindhu
Pusarla V. Sindhu (India) bt Line Kjaersfeldt (Denmark) 21-12, 21-14.
Kjaersfeldt, seeded eighth, earned her place with the match of the week, 8-21, 21-19, 28-26 over top seed Pornpawee Chochuwong, a deciding game that ran to 54 points. Thirty-nine minutes on Sunday was the price of that effort. Sindhu did not drop a game in Saarbrücken, and after losing the French Open final the week before she took her second title of 2026, following the Japan Open in July. Sindhu now leads this head-to-head 7-1.
Men’s doubles: Christian Faust Kjaer / Rasmus Kjaer
Christian Faust Kjaer / Rasmus Kjaer (Denmark) bt Ben Lane / Sean Vendy (England) 21-14, 21-18.
The result of the week. The Kjaer brothers were unseeded, and they beat the Arctic Open champions Aaron Tai / Yap Roy King in three in the semi-final before taking apart the second seeds in two. This is the brothers’ first World Tour title. Our doubles rotation guide explains the positions these rallies turn on.
Women’s doubles: Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi / Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti
Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi / Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (Indonesia) bt Hsu Yin-Hui / Lin Jhih Yun (Chinese Taipei) 21-18, 21-19.
Fifth seeds over top seeds, and both games decided in the last few points. Pratiwi and Ramadhanti had already survived 24-22 in the second game of their semi-final against the Stoeva sisters, and they held their nerve again when Hsu and Lin stayed close to the end of the second game. Indonesia’s only title of the week, and a reminder that late in a tight game the pair that keeps the shuttle in usually wins.
Mixed doubles: Thom Gicquel / Delphine Delrue
Thom Gicquel / Delphine Delrue (France) bt Jesper Toft / Amalie Cecilie Kudsk (Denmark) 19-21, 22-20, 21-18.
The reigning world champions lost the first game, took the second 22-20 and closed out a decider against a Danish pair formed only this year. Toft and Kudsk had reached the final by beating Amri Syahnawi / Nita Violina Marwah 22-20 in a third game; on Sunday the French pair held the close finish better. It is the third title of the season for Gicquel and Delrue after the Orléans Masters and the World Championships. Next for them is a training block, then the World Tour Finals in December.
What it means for the Race to Hangzhou
A Super 500 title is worth 9,200 points and a runner-up spot 7,800. The next three Super 500s are all in Asia on consecutive weeks: Korea Open in Yeosu (3–8 November), Japan Masters in Kumamoto (10–15 November) and Hong Kong Open (17–22 November). The World Tour Finals in Hangzhou (9–13 December) take eight players or pairs per discipline.
Sindhu’s week matters most. A title on top of last week’s French Open final is the kind of fortnight that moves a player up the Race list, and she has now won two World Tour titles this season. Sen’s title does the same job in men’s singles. The Kjaer brothers and Pratiwi / Ramadhanti collect the same 9,200 points, and the Asian swing decides whether it is enough.
Every 2026 champion is on our Race to the Finals page with the points still available at each remaining event, and the Hylo Open is in the results database. Rule of thumb for the next three weeks: a Super 500 semi-final is worth 6,420 points, so three of them in Yeosu, Kumamoto and Hong Kong add up to more than two titles.
