Badminton News
At $200K Wilson Swiss Super Series 2009, Basel

[R1] (Q) Anup Sridhar (IND,42) l Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,32) 22-20 10-21 13-21
[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,13) bt (8) Przemyslaw Wacha (POL,9) 21-9 21-16
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,26) l (2) Dan Lin (CHN,2) 21-19 -17-21 -16-21

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Youn Joo Bae (KOR,37) 21-6 21-17

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND)/ Anna Rice (CAN) bt Sabrina Jaquet (SUI)/ Huwaina Razi (SUI) 21-10 21-18

[R2] Chetan Anand (IND,13) vs Yu Hsin Hsieh (TPE,19)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (6) Lin Zhu (CHN,7)

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND)/ Anna Rice (CAN) vs (2) Eei Hui Chin (MAS)/ Pei Tty Wong (MAS)

Chetan scored very dominating win against WR #9 in 26 mins .. He didn't give any chance to his opponent to fight back.

Saina also scored easy victory against Korean opponents in 29 mins ... She also started with win in doubles with her Canadian partner in 33 mins ... But in second round she is facing WR #7 Zhu in singles and WR #1 Malayasian pair in doubles.

Very impressive performance by Arvind against Dan Lin ... After winning first game Arvind was leading 10-6 in second game but Dan Lin won next 6 points to take lead ... Arvind again caught him at 16-all but then Dan controlled the match to win it in 1 hour.
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At $4.5M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R1] (3) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs KUNITSYN Igor (RUS)/ TURSUNOV Dmitry (RUS)
[R1] (4) DLOUHY Lukas (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) vs KNOWLE Julian (AUT)/ MELZER Jurgen (AUT)

Indian Wells Masters series draw is out ... Mahesh and Mark r 3rd seed, they r in top draw with top-seed Bryans ... In first round they r facing Russian pair, they lost their last match at Dubai Open against Dima and Rik De Voest ... This time they r facing Dima with different partner ... Lee and Lukas r 4th seed, they r in bottom draw with Nestor and Zimo ... In first round they r facing tricky experienced Austrian pair.