Thursday, January 15, 2009

Badminton News
At $300K Korean Super Series 2009,

[R2] Arvind Bhat (IND,35) l (7) Przemyslaw Wacha (POL,12) 21-11 14-21 21-23
[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) l Adrianti Firdasari (INA,35) 21-18 18-21 12-21

[R2] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (3) Lars Paaske (DEN)/ Jonas Rasmussen (DEN) 10-21 15-21

[R2] V Diju (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt (1) Nova Widianto (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA) 10-21 21-16 21-9

[QF] V Diju (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (8) Wijaya Rendra (INA)/ Meiliana Jauhari (INA)

Another close loss for Indian ... Arvind started well winning first game but then Wacha controlled the match ... In third game Arvind produced excellent fight back from 13-19 to 19-all but Wacha managed to win match in 57 minutes.

Very shocking result for Saina in recent days ... After longtime she lost match to lower rank player ... She started well winning first game but Firdasari turned table on her from second game.

Diju and Jwala Gutta scored biggest upset of Korean Super Series beating top-seed Indonasin in 3 games ... In quarters they r facing another seeded Indonasian pair.

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