Badminton News
At Happy Suwon Badminton Asia Championships 2009, South Korea

[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,13) l Kazuteru Kozai (JPN,84) 13-21 19-21
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) bt Kishor Rana (NEP,UNR) 21-7 21-7
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,51) bt (Q) Chanthan Mao (CAM,UNR) 21-5 21-3

[R1] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) l Yanjiao Jiang (CHN,14) 21-14 14-21 12-21
[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,39) l Pei Hsin Chiang (TPE,111) 13-21 11-21

[R1] (7) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt (Q) Mikhail Zakharov (KAZ)/ Karina Suleyeva (KAZ) 21-6 21-6

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Chen Xu (CHN)/ Zhendong Guo (CHN) 18-21 19-21

[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) vs (15) Ji Hoon Hong (KOR,43)
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,51) vs (7) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,21)

[R2] (7) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Peng Soon Chan (MAS)/ Liu Ying Goh (MAS)

Another disastrous and inconsistent performance by Chetan to lose in the first round against lowly ranked Japanese.

Saina also failed to overcome defending champion Yanjiao Jiang's challenge in 40 mins match ... Saian started well winning first game but after that Jiang didn't give her any chance ... Aditi lost (mostly due to lack of match practice) but scoreline was shocking.

Diju and Jwala started with very easy victory against Kazak qualifiers.