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Pawar clinches Austrian Open

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Anand Pawar.

BANGALORE: Anand Pawar, the 21-year-old trainee of Tata- Padukone Badminton Academy, became the second Indian player to lift the Austrian Open men’s singles title at Vienna on Saturday. The late Syed Modi had won it 1984.

Anand ranked 124 in the world had a remarkable run beating players ranked above him. In the final Anand convincingly beat Ukrainian veteran Vladislav Druzchenko ranked 60 in the world, 21-16, 21-15.

Incidentally this is the first major international title for Anand Pawar, son of former Internationals Uday and Sujatha Pawar.

The women’s singles title was claimed by Xi Zang of China who beat Anu Nieminen of Finland 19-21, 21-13, 21-9.

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