Eight years after he won his first French Open, Malaysia’s former world no.1 Lee Chong Wei claimed the title honors once again. Through the tournament, Lee dropped just one game against Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen in the quarterfinal and easily defeated Korean sixth seed Chou Tien Chen in the final. The victory took Lee’s BWF men’s singles ranking to 19 and boosted his chances for 2016 Rio Olympic qualification. Among women, Spain's Carolina Marin showed her class in becoming the first European in a decade to win the French Open women’s singles title, when she defeated Chinese fourth seed