Kumamoto (Japan), Nov. 15 -- Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win the Kumamoto Masters Japan title, rallying from a game down to defeat Japan's Koki Watanabe in the final on Sunday, as India capped its most successful season on the BWF World Tour with a record nine titles and four runnerup finishes.
The eighth-seeded Sen defeated Watanabe 13-21, 21-18, 21-14 in a gruelling one-hour-and-four-minute contest at the Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium to claim his second consecutive title, following his triumph at the Hylo Open in Germany earlier this month.
The victory marked Sen's second Super 500 title of the year and fifth overall at the level, placing him joint-second among men's singles players in ...