BIRMINGHAM, Mar 14: China's Sun Jun swept to his first All England badminton title today with an easy 15-1, 15-7 success over Malaysia's Ong Ewe Hock.Sun, seeded two, has been in brilliant form all week and raced to the championship in just 41 minutes.As last year, China also won the women's singles here with world champion Ye Zhaoying beating unseeded compatriot Zhang Ning 11-5, 11-8.Sun, smashing brilliantly, raced into a 6-0 lead then 8-1 in a one-sided first set. He led 9-1 in the second before a brief flicker of resistance from the Malaysian.From 2-11, Ong managed to get back to 5-11. But Sun moved up the necessary extra gear to give China their second title success in two years in the men's singles, following Don Jiong's win in 1997.Earlier, top seeded South Koreans Kim Ding-Moon and Ra Kyung-Min won the mixed doubles title, beating the remaining Europeans in the championships, Michael Sogaard and Rikke Olsen of Denmark, 15-2, 11-15, 15-5. The match was halted midway for about 15 minutesbecause of a lights failure. In the end, it was the Koreans who shone through.
