Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Badminton News
At BWF Thomas Uber Cup Finals 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Thomas Cup - Quarter Finals
India l Indonesia 0-3

Kashyap Parupalli (IND,33) l Taufik Hidayat (INA,5) 12-21 21-10 17-21
Sanave Thomas (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l Markis Kido (INA)/ Hendra Setiawan (INA) 16-21 17-21
Arvind Bhat (IND,36) l Simon Santoso (INA,12) 8-21 10-21

Uber Cup - Quarter Finals
India l China 0-3

Saina Nehwal (IND,6) l Yihan Wang (CHN,1) 21-14 11-21 18-21
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Jin Ma (CHN)/ Xiaoli Wang (CHN) 8-21 11-21
Sayali Ghokale (IND,58) l Xin Wang (CHN,2) 10-21 14-21

Don't know how draw made for quarter-finals, in Thomas Cup quarter-final we again faced Indonesia ... This time also Kashyap stretched Hidayat to 3 games ... That was only notable performance from our player in that tie.

Saina started well against WR #1 Yihan Wang, she won first game but Yihan came back strongly to won second ... In third game Saina was fighting neck to neck but Yihan kept slimmer lead to won this match ... So Chinese women won next 2 matches easily to moved into semis.

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