Badminton News
At $80K Yonex German Open Grand Prix, Mulheim

[R1] (9) Arvind Bhat (IND,28) bt Koen Ridder (NED,132) 21-15 21-13
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,45) bt Daren Liew (MAS,82) 21-17 21-19
[R1] (15) Anup Sridhar (IND,38) bt Sven-Eric Kastens (GER,110) 21-16 16-21 21-15
[R1] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,13) bt Henri Hurskainen (SWE,62) 21-6 21-8

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) l (7) Ekaterina Ananina (RUS)/ Anastasia Russkikh (RUS) 14-21 10-21

[R1] (4) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Chayut Triyachar (SIN)/ Shinta Mulia Sari (SIN) 21-9 21-10

[R2] (9) Arvind Bhat (IND,28) vs Kestutis Navickas (LTU,55)
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,45) vs (5) Andrew Smith (ENG,21)
[R2] (15) Anup Sridhar (IND,38) vs Marcel Reuter (GER,104)
[R2] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,13) vs Kay Bin Yeoh (MAS,129)

[R2] (4) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Halim Haryanto Ho (USA)/ Yun Peng (USA)

Surprisingly German stretched Anup Sridhar to third game in the first round, otherwise dominating start by our players ... Chetan won his match against top-60 Swedish player in mere 19 minutes ... In the second round Anand Pawar having tough match against top-25 British player but Anand having game to surprise him.

But not so promising start in doubles as our pair lost in 22 minutes against seeded Russian pair.

Good start by Diju and Jwala, they won first round match in 19 mins.