Yamaguchi, Axelsen are badminton World Champions

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Japan's Akane Yamaguchi retained her badminton women's world title in front of her home crowd in Tokyo on Sunday, beating China's Chen Yufei 21-12, 10-21, 21-14.

The top-seeded Yamaguchi, who won her first world title last year in the Spanish city of Huelva, had to dig deep to see off the challenge of Olympic champion Chen.

In the men's final earlier in the day, Denmark's Viktor Axelsen claimed his second world title with a 21-5, 21-16 win over Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn.

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