Badminton News
At $200K French Super Series 2009, Paris

[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) bt Pui Yin Yip (HKG,15) 21-15 21-14

[R2] (6) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Dean George (ENG)/ Samantha Ward (ENG) 19-21 21-10 21-16

[R2] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (3) Mathias Boe (DEN)/ Carsten Mogensen (DEN) 21-15 13-21 12-21
[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (5) Jin Ma (CHN)/ Xiaoli Wang (CHN) 18-21 20-22

[QF] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) vs (1) Lin Wang (CHN,1)

[QF] (6) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (2) Nova Widianto (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA)

Saina produced very comfortable straight games victory over Hong Kong's top-15 Pui Yin Yip ... She controlled this 31 mins match from the start .. In second game Yip was with her until 11-all but then Yip managed to won only 3 points ... So in quarters Saina will mostly face Chinese WR #1 Lin Wang.

Diju and Jwala produced solid performance to win second game after losing closely fought first game ... In third game Jwala and Diju take 12-10 lead but their British opponent's take lead winning next 4 points ... After 13-15 down Jwala and Diju take control and scored win in 46 mins ... From overall score it look our pair is struggling and playing well in patches ... Next they r facing #2 Indonesian pair.

Also in doubles our both pairs produced fighting performance against their seeded opponents.