Badminton News
At $150K Yonex-Sunrise Badminton Asia Championships 2010, New Delhi

[R1] (3) Rupesh K T Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt (Q) Rais Md Uddin (BAN)/ Jabed Mostafa Md (BAN) 21-10 21-2
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) l Nguyen Khang Huynh (VIE)/ Hoang Nam Nguyen (VIE) 18-21 21-12 16-21
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l (2) Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Noriyasu Hirata (JPN) 18-21 15-21

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Meiliana Jauhari (INA)/ Greysia Polii (INA) 21-18 15-21 17-21
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Aiying Xing (SIN)/ Beiwen Zhang (SIN) 21-14 21-9

[R3] (13) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,30) l (7) Yun Hu (HKG,16) 16-21 21-18 13-21

[R2] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,43) bt Hsiao Huan Chen (TPE,55) 23-21 21-11
[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) bt Julia Pei Xian Wong (MAS,141) 21-14 21-16

[R2] (1) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Sheng Mu Lee (TPE)/ Yu Chin Chien (TPE) 24-22 21-15

[R2] (3) Rupesh K T Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Patipat Chalardchaleam (THA)/ Thitipong Lapoe (THA) 21-14 21-15
[R2] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) l (6) Pan Pan (CHN)/ Qing Tian (CHN) 10-21 12-21

[QF] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) vs (7) Mew Choo Wong (MAS,19)
[QF] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,43) vs (Q) Xin Liu (CHN,231)

[QF] (3) Rupesh K T Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Sang Hoon Han (KOR)/ Ji Man Hwang (KOR)

[QF] (1) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Zihan Qiu (CHN)/ Qing Tian (CHN)

Good to see Aditi taking full advantage of weaker draw of her side to moved into quarter-finals .. Her next match is against qualifier but not easy as her Chinese opponent defeated seeded Japanese player in second round.

Saina produced clinical performance to score easy victory over her tricky opponent ... Next in quarters she is facing another opponent who scored wins against her in their previous meetings, Malaysian Mew Choo Wong ... Nice to see Diju/Jwala and Rupesh/Sanave performing as per their rankings.