Alex Lanier on Saturday became the first singles badminton player from France to clinch the world championship title, moments after the French took gold in the mixed doubles. In the women’s final, South Korea’s world No 1 An Se-young beat Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi 21-17, 21-14 for her second world crown. But it was history for French badminton, after the 21-year-old Lanier beat Japan’s Kodai Naraoka 21-11, 21-11 in a lopsided men’s final that took 50 minutes at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Indoor...