Singles glory for Chinese couple at worlds

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MADRID (AFP) — Lin Dan and Xie Xingfang made sure that there can be another romantic celebration by winning the badminton world singles titles within a couple of hours of each other at the Palacio de deportes. After Lin and his girl-friend Xie both won singles titles at the All-England Open championships in January they celebrated with a ride together on the fair-ground big wheel in Birmingham.

Now there will be reason for a special evening again after each beat fellow team mates, Xie making a successful defence of the women's singles title and Lin winning the men's singles for the first time. He did that with a 18-21, 21-17, 21-10 victory over the seventh-seeded Bao Chunlai, while she beat top-seeded Zhang Ning 21-18, 21-14. "It's really good that Lin Dan won as well as...