P.V. Sindhu’s dream run at the Denmark Open ended in agony as the Indian shuttler suffered a straight-game defeat against Olympic champion Li Xuerui of China in the final of the $650,000 Super Series Premier badminton event. Playing her maiden Super Series final, the two-time bronze medallist at the World Championship Sindhu could not break the stranglehold of Li, who played a compact game and rode on her repertoire of strokes to notch up a 21-19 21-12 win in the summit clash which lasted 47 minutes.

In the men’s single category, China’s Chen Long has won the 2015 title. He has won the title for record 3rd time after he had earlier won it in 2013 and 2014 .

Did You Know?

• Badminton is a sport played with racquets and a shuttle (or shuttlecock), which is a feathered or plastic projectile.
• The International Badminton Federation (now known as the Badminton World Federation) was established in 1934, and today it is responsible for governing international badminton and for globally developing the sport.
• The fastest racquet sport in the world is badminton, with shuttlecock speeds reaching more than 200 miles per hour.
• The most popular sport in the world is soccer, and the second most popular sport in the world is badminton.
• Badminton was first played as a sport in the Olympics in 1992. More than 1.1 billion watched its Olympic debut on television.

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