1.
Sign of badminton
2 ft

2.
Men's Single: (Ile Sumirat v. Hou Chang-chia)
6 ft

3.
Umpire
8 ft

4.
Men's Single: Sumirat serving
14 ft

5.
Score board (12-15, 15-8, 18-15)
17 ft

6.
Women's Single: Indonesia v. China (Verawaty v. Liang Chiu-hsia)
27 ft

7.
Umpire
29 ft

8.
Liang wins
38 ft

9.
Score board (8-11, 11-0, 11-5)
39 ft

10.
Players shake hands with each with umpire
42 ft



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SPORT: BADMINTON

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Background: Ile Sumirat of Indonesia on Saturday night (March 27) won the men's single title of the first Asian Invitational Badminton Championships defeating China's Hou Chang-chia 12-15, 15-81 18-15 in 58 minutes of power-packed shuttle action.

The marathon test of skill and endurance ended as the 26-year-old Bandung-born Sumirat overcame the veteran Chinese ace in a nerve-wracking 28-minute rubber set watched by 12,000 spectators at Bangkok's Hua Mark Indoor stadium.

The women's singles title went to China as favorite and to??? seed Liang Chiu-hsia, though stretched to three sets, beat Indonesia's 18-year-old student contender Verawaty 8-11, 11-0, 11-5, in 34 minutes.

But the Indonesians edged the Chinese in this first tournament organized by the Asian Badminton Confrontation (ABC), as Christian Hadinata and Ade Chandra outclassed Tang Hsien-hu and Luan Chin in 25 minutes.

Malaysia won the fourth title in the 11-nation tournament as Sylva Ng and Rosalind Singha Ang beat Thailand's Thongkam Kingmanee and Patama Sirisiiro in the women's double.