Sri Lanka, Feb. 19 -- R. Ruzana of Indonesia and Xiadong Sheng of Canada emerged women's and men's open singles champions at the Li Ning Sri Lanka International Series Badminton tournament concluded at Dadalle Indoor Stadium in Galle yesterday.

More than 300 shuttlers from 14 countries took part at this seven day tournament while overseas shuttlers dominated to enter all the finals. Sri Lankan Dumindu Abeywickrama was the only local shuttler to enter the men's open singles semi finals while other local shuttlers were failed to reach semi finals.

At the men's open single final Xiadong Sheng the only Canadian of this tournament beat Indian Rahul Bharadwaj with a three setter game 10-21, 21-19, 22-20 while Indonesian Ruzana made straight t...