HONG KONG:

dominated every final of badminton's Hong Kong Open on Sunday, with world number four Li Shifeng comfortably beating India's Lakshya Sen to clinch his second world tour title this year.

Second-seeded Li, who dropped only one game in the tournament, overcame early stumbles to outclass the unseeded Sen 21-15, 21-12 at the Hong Kong Coliseum.

"This time my condition was not especially great, either physically or mentally, and the training was not very systematic," Li said.

"The only way to improve faster is to join more tournaments... it's about using this competition to bring out my inner qualities."

Li prevailed over Sen at the China Open in July and repeated that feat on Sunday with little pressure.

Sen's nail-biter upset on Saturday over crowd favourite Chou Tien-chen fro

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