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imageNEW DELHI: Saina Nehwal, badminton's new world number one, trounced her Thai challenger, Ratchanok Intanon, on Sunday to win the India Open women's singles on home turf.

Nehwal defeated Ratchanok 21-16, 21-14 in less than an hour in the final of the Super Series tournament in front of an adoring crowd packed into the Siri Fort stadium in New Delhi.

The 25-year-old Nehwal has already had a dream run this year after reaching the final of the prestigious All England Championship earlier this month where she lost to Spain's Carolina Marin.

Nehwal became the world number one -- the first Indian to do so -- after she reached the semi-finals of the Indian Open tournament, although rankings are not formally announced by the Badminton World Federation until Thursday.

Another Indian shuttler, K Srikanth, won the men's singles final in a keenly contested match against Denmark's Viktor Axelsen.

Srikanth defeated Axelsen 18-21, 21-13 and 21-12 in a 55 minute encounter.

He had stormed into the final with a comfortable 21-16, 21-13 victory over China's Xue Song in the semi-final on Saturday.

Earlier on Sunday, the Japanese duo of Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi defeated their Chinese challengers Luo Ying and Luo Yu 21-19 and 21-19 to win the women's doubles final in a 81-minute encounter.

Two other Chinese pairs had a better day, routing their opponents in the mixed and men's doubles finals.

Chai Biao and Hong Wei comfortably defeated Denmark's Conrad Petersen and Mads Pieler Kolding 21-18 and 21-14 to take the men's doubles title in 45 minutes.

China's Liu Cheng and Bao Yixin downed Denmark's Christinna Pedersen and Joachim Fischer Nielsen in the mixed doubles final, with a score of 21-19, 21-19 in 52 minutes.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2015

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