Thursday, January 27, 2011

Badminton News
At $1.2M Victor Korea Open Super Series Premier 2011, Seoul

[R2] P Kashyap (IND,23) l (3) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN,3) 16-21 13-21
[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) l Sayaka Sato (JPN,27) 21-17 19-21 11-21

[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Mizuki Fujii (JPN)/ Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) 21-18 14-21 21-15
[R2] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l (6) Tao Jiaming (CHN)/ Qing Tian (CHN) 16-21 13-21

[QF] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (8) Qing Tian (CHN)/ Yunlei Zhao (CHN)

Jwala and Ashwini scored another fighting win over higher ranked Japanese opponents to moved into quarters ... Now they r having big challenge of Chinese pair.

Otherwise disappointing day ... Gade defeated Kashyap in easy match ... Jwala and Diju also couldn't produce much fight against seeded Chinese pair.

But shocking result was of Saina ... Saina started well winning first game easily but from second game Japanese Sayaka Sato played pressure on Saina ... She kept 2/3 points lead from middle of the game to won it ... In decider after 7-all Sayaka Sato didn't give any chance to Saina and won it comfortably ... After longtime we r seeing Saina losing against below top-25 player.

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