Thursday, November 27, 2008

Badminton News
At $200K Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Super Series 2008,

[R2] Chetan Anand (IND,14) vs (3) Jin Chen (CHN,3) 11-21
[R2] Arvind Bhat (IND,41) bt Yan Kit Chan (HKG,26) 21-14 21-19

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) bt (Q) Youn Joo Bae (KOR,78) 21-15 11-21 21-13

[QF] Arvind Bhat (IND,41) vs Boonsak Ponsana (THA,17)
[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) vs Chen Wang (HKG,8)

Surprisingly Saina lost 2nd game against Koream qualifier ... Mostly loss of concentration but then in third game Saina gave dominating performance to move into quarter-final ... With this win Saina assured her first-time entry into BWF top-10 ranking ... :-)

Arvind scored another upset win over top-30 local player in 32 mins .. He showed yesterday's win wasn't fluke in this straight games win to move into Super Series quarter finals.

Chetan had tough time in adjusting his game against WR # 3 Jin Chen lost first game in 13 mins ... In second game also he was doing catching game but in end lost match in 27 mins.

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