Indian shuttler Anand Pawar added another feather to his cap by winning the Portuguese International Championship badminton tournament with a straight games win over England’s Carl Baxter on Sunday.

Pawar, who won the Austrian Open last month, secured a 21-15, 21-3 win in the final to bag the title.

The 21-year-old is a trainee at Prakash Padukone’s badminton academy in Bangalore. He is presently ranked 101st in the world and has a good chance to break into the top-100 after this victory.

Another Indian, Ajay Jayaram, who had play the qualifying rounds, reached the semifinals before losing to Baxter 15-21, 18-21.

The Portuguese International Championships, held at Caldas da Rainha, is an International Series event with a prize money of $5,000.

Among other Indians in the tournament, P Kashyap made it to the second round, where he lost to compatriot Jayaram. Sagar Chopda also qualified for the main draw, but fell in the first round itself. The Indian second-seeded duo of Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas fell at the final hurdle, going down to the top-seeded Dutch pair of Ruud Bosch and Koen Ridder 19-21, 20-22. The other Indian pair of Akshay Dewalkar and V Diju bowed out in the quarterfinals.

In the women’s section, Aditi Mutatkar reached the second round, but seventh-seeded Trupti Murgunde had to retire from her first round match against Vietnam’s Nguyen Nhung Le Ngoc.