Badminton News
At $50K New Zealand Open Grand Prix 2009, North Shore, Auckland

[R1] (6) Anup Sridhar (IND,45) bye
[R1] (7) Anand Pawar (IND,46) bye
[R1] Gurusaidatt R.M.V. (IND,98) bt Leck S Tham (NZL,UNR) 21-5 21-6
[R1] Aditya Prakash (IND,313) bt Kevin Dennerly-Minturn (NZL,UNR) 21-12 21-18
[R1] Aditya Elango (IND,240) bt Bjorn Seguin (NZL,165) 19-21 21-16 21-11

[R1] Trupti Murgunde (IND,127) bt Renuga Veeran (AUS,147) 21-16 16-21 21-19
[R1] (5) Neha Pandit (IND,73) l (7) Kristina Ludikova (CZE,60) 19-21 15-21

[R1] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bye
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) vs Ashraf Dhoray (NZL)/ Delius Tang (NZL)
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) vs Oliver Leydon-Davis (NZL)/ Henry Tam (NZL)

[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Deyanira Angulo (MEX)/ Poh Lin Teo (NZL)
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Nitya Sosale (IND) vs Anona Pak (NZL)/ Aviva Pak (NZL)
[R1] Anjali Kalita (IND)/ Jyotshna Polavarapu (IND) vs Madeleine Stapleton (NZL)/ Melissa Yin (NZL)

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Praveen Tayalan (NZL)/ Michelle Hk Chan (NZL) 21-9 21-5
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs (8) Oliver Leydon-Davis (NZL)/ Emma Chapple (NZL)
[R1] Jishnu Sanyal (IND)/ Nitya Sosale (IND) vs (6) Joe Wu (NZL)/ Danielle Barry (NZL)
[R1] (5) Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) bt Jian Dee Chew (NZL)/ Anna Rankin (NZL) 21-10 21-14

[R2] Gurusaidatt R.M.V. (IND,98) bt Simon Maunoury (FRA,131) 21-4 21-10
[R2] Aditya Elango (IND,240) l (8) Mathieu Lo Ying Ping (FRA,54) 10-21 8-21
[R1] (7) Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt Michael Fowke (NZL,208) 21-6 21-9
[R2] (6) Anup Sridhar (IND,45) bt Joe Wu (NZL,126) 21-18 21-16
[R2] Aditya Prakash (IND,313) bt Yogendran Krishnan (MAS,268) 21-16 17-21 21-19

[R2] Trupti Murgunde (IND,127) vs (5) Eriko Hirose (JPN,50)

[R3] Gurusaidatt R.M.V. (IND,98) vs (1) Yan Kit Chan (HKG,10)
[R3] (7) Anand Pawar (IND,46) vs Andreas Adityawarman (INA,161)
[R3] (6) Anup Sridhar (IND,45) vs Wing Ki Wong (HKG,71)
[R3] Aditya Prakash (IND,313) vs Yoga Pratama (INA,234)

[R2] (5) Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) vs James Eunson (NZL)/ Stephanie Cheng (NZL)

Expected start for our players in singles but round three will give them real test as all r facing Asian opponents.