Men's Singles
Lin Dan of China won the World Championship title in the men's singles event, beating Chen Jin in the final. The score was 21–16. The victory, Dan's third consecutive one (4 counting the unofficial World Championship, the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008), set a new record for consecutive victories. Despite the three consecutive victories, Dan was not ranked number one player in the world at the time of his third victory.
Read more about this topic: 2009 BWF World Championships
Famous quotes containing the word men:
“Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk
Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday
The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women,
Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives
Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden
Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons
Back now, all of them, to their local lives....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)