Badminton: Lee to meet Lin in dream final

SEOUL: World number one Lee Chong-Wei powered into the final of the Korea Open to set up a clash with arch-rival Lin Dan. Both shuttlers were in blistering form in their semi-finals as Malaysia’s Lee trounced China’s Du Pengyu 21-8, 21-13 and world number two Lin from China knocked off Sho Sasaki of Japan 21-16, 21-14. Lee overwhelmed his opponent with 16 smash winners in a contest that lasted just 37 minutes, while Lin took ten minutes more to dispatch with the Japanese shuttler.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 8^th, 2012.