Sydney: India’s Kidambi Srikanth claimed a first victory over Olympic and two-time world champion Chen Long to win the Australian Open Superseries final in Sydney on Sunday. The 11th-ranked Srikanth outgunned the sixth-ranked Chinese star 22-20, 21-16 in 46 minutes for his second successive Superseries title after winning the Indonesia Open earlier this month. He made it to the Singapore Open final and won the Indonesia Open ahead of the Australian event. Chen is on a comeback trail from a lengthy injury and has not won a Superseries title since the 2014 Denmark Open. Olympic bronze medallist Nozomi Okuhara earlier downed Akane Yamaguchi 21-12, 21-23, 21-17 in an all-Japanese women’s final.

Source: Mint June 25, 2017 07:52 UTC