China Dominates Asian Junior Badminton ChampionshipsChina made a clean sweep of all the seven titles offered at the Asian junior badminton championships after Sang Yang and Zheng Bo landed the boy's pair gold medal Thursday in Kyoto, Japan.The third-seeded Chinese duo edged Korean fifth-seeds Lee Jae- Jin and Chung Jae-Sung 17-16, 11-15, 15-12 in the last event of the seven-day tournament. Earlier in the day, Lin Dan breezed past joint third seed Sony Dwi Kuncoro of Indonesia 15-12, 15-5 to win the boys' singles title, setting up Sang and Zheng for the chance of the Chinese sweep. All the other three individual finals were all-Chinese affairs, but it was not a happy ending for girls' singles top seed Wei Yan. Wei, who had to be satisfied with the silver medal last year after losing to her teammate Hu Ting, was beaten by unseeded teammate Yu Jin 5-11, 3-11. Second-seeded Zhang Yawen and Wei Yili downed top-seeded Zhao Tingting and Li Yujia 15-12, 15-5 to win the girls' doubles trophy. Zheng Bo and Wei Yili, second seed, made it a double victory for them by winning the mixed doubles crown as they walked over Sang Yang and Zhang Yawen, the top seeds. On Sunday, China beat Indonesia 3-0 to win the boy's team title and Chinese girls outgunned South Korea 3-0 to win the female team title. |
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