Badminton News
At $50K Bulgarian Grand Prix 2008

[R3] (12) Ajay Jayaram (IND,101) l (1) Joachim Persson (DEN,11) 14-21 14-21
[R3] (7) Kashyap P. (IND,58) bt (Q) Abhimanyu Singh (IND,UNR) 21-16 21-9
[QF] (5) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,45) bt (4) Maria Elfira Christina (INA,42) 14-21 21-14 21-18

[QF] (3) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Uchida Shizuka (JPN)/ Ayane Kurihara (JPN) 21-16 21-15
[QF] (8) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt (3) Robert Adcock (ENG)/ Robin Middleton (ENG) 21-12 21-13
[QF] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) bt (3) Suzanne Rayappan (ENG)/ David Lindley (ENG) 13-21 21-11 21-9

Aditi scored very exciting comeback victory over fellow Asian ... She is definetly moving towards top-25 ranking ... As expected Kashyap in mens quarters.

Rupesh and Sanave scored easy victory against 3rd seed British pair ... Jwala and Shruti also scored easy victory against Japanese pair ... But Jwala and Diju r played very quality game to score comeback victory over 3rd seed British pair in MXD quarters.

In newly declared BWF world ranking Chetan rose to #22 after his last week's 4 star tournament title win ... Arvind also become India's no.2 with final appearance with moving on #36, one place ahead of Anup.