HONG KONG:
China dominated each last of badminton’s Hong Kong Open on Sunday, with world quantity 4 Li Shifeng comfortably beating India’s Lakshya Sen to clinch his second world tour title this yr.
Second-seeded Li, who dropped just one recreation within the match, overcame early stumbles to outclass the unseeded Sen 21-15, 21-12 on the Hong Kong Coliseum.
“This time my situation was not particularly nice, both bodily or mentally, and the coaching was not very systematic,” Li stated.
“The one manner to enhance quicker is to affix extra tournaments… it is about utilizing this competitors to convey out my inside qualities.”
Li prevailed over Sen on the China Open in July and repeated that feat on Sunday with little strain.
Sen’s nail-biter upset on Saturday over crowd favorite Chou Tien-chen from Taiwan took him to his first last in two years.
Within the girls’s singles, prime seed Wang Zhiyi took the title from defending champion and compatriot Han Yue 21-14, 24-22.
Wang instructed reporters the conflict was “fairly robust” as a result of she was not in prime kind, including that the victory over her team-mate got here with a way of “emotional launch”.
China’s Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang got here from behind to defeat Indian pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty 19-21, 21-14, 21-17 to win the boys’s doubles.
Jia Yifan and Zhang Shuxian outperformed Japan’s Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi 21-17, 21-15.
The combined doubles last was one other all-China conflict, with Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping needing simply 38 minutes to beat Guo Xinwa and Chen Fanghui in two units of 21-14.
