Lin Dan earned his sixth All England badminton title when he routed Chinese teammate Tian Houwei 21-9, 21-10 in the final in Birmingham today. The sixth championship by badminton's greatest player came 12 years after his first, and four years after his last, when he went into semi-retirement for two years. In the women's final later, Wang Shixian of China was going for her third title, and out to spoil Japanese opponent Nozomi Okuhara's 21st birthday.