Badminton News
At $50K Bulgarian Grand Prix 2008

[R2] (12) Ajay Jayaram (IND,101) bt Misha Zilberman (ISR,204) 16-21 21-18 21-18
[R2] (Q) Abhimanyu Singh (IND,UNR) bt Sune Gavnholt (DEN,128) 21-18 13-21 21-18
[R2] (7) Kashyap P. (IND,61) bt Tomas Kopriva (CZE,398) 21-14 21-18

[R2] Shruti Kurian (IND,180) l Anastasia Prokopenko (RUS,92) 11-21 19-21
[R2] (5) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) bt Olga Golovanova (RUS,150) 21-18 21-6

[R2] (3) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Elisa Chanteur (FRA)/ Laura Choinet (FRA) 21-11 21-11
[R2] (8) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Tichomir Kirov (BUL)/ Konstantin Kostadinov (BUL) W/O
[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) bt (8) Laura Choinet (FRA)/ Baptiste Careme (FRA) 21-13 18-21 21-12

[R3] (12) Ajay Jayaram (IND,101) vs (1) Joachim Persson (DEN,11)
[R3] (7) Kashyap P. (IND,62) vs (Q) Abhimanyu Singh (IND,UNR)

[QF] (5) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,46) vs (4) Maria Elfira Christina (INA,42)

[QF] (3) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Uchida Shizuka (JPN)/ Ayane Kurihara (JPN)
[QF] (8) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (3) Robert Adcock (ENG)/ Robin Middleton (ENG)
[QF] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) vs (3) Suzanne Rayappan (ENG)/ David Lindley (ENG)

Indians continued with their good performance ... Today only Shruti lost her match against top-100 player ... Qualifier Abhimanyu Singh produced another upset but in round 3 he is facing compatriot P. Kashyap ... Ajay having tough match against top-seed Joachim Persson ... Aditi also having tricky quarter-final match against similar rank Indonesian Maria Elfira Christina ... Our doubles pair r also performing well.

After reaching final in last week's 4 star event Aditi moved to #46 in latest ranking.