Super win for Indian champ

INDIA’S Kidambi Srikanth claimed a first victory over Olympic and twotime world champion Chen Long to win the Australian Open Superseries final in Sydney yesterday.

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. It was Srikanth’s first win in six encounters with Chen, who defeated the Indian at the Sudirman Cup on the Gold Coast last month.