Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Badminton News
At $350K All England Open Badminton Championship 2011, Birmingham

[R1] (Q) Anand Pawar (IND,42) l (Q) Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,38) 16-21 18-21
[R1] (Q) Ajay Jayaram (IND,36) l Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,21) 17-21 19-21
[R1] P. Kashyap (IND,20) l Marc Zwiebler (GER,16) 11-21 21-8 17-21
[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Seung Hee Bae (KOR,30) 21-13 21-16

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Teik Chai Gan (MAS)/ Bin Shen Tan (MAS) 21-13 21-18
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Maria Helsbol (DEN)/ Anne Skelbaek (DEN) 21-11 21-18
[R1] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Yeon Seong Yoo (KOR)/ Min Jung Kim (KOR) 21-23 21-13 25-23

[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs Tsu Ying Tai (TPE,22)

[R2] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Biao Chai (CHN)/ Zhendong Guo (CHN)
[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (Q) Line Damkjaer Kruse (DEN)/ Marie Roepke (DEN)
[R2] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (5) Tao Jiaming (CHN)/ Qing Tian (CHN)

Anand Pawar lost in the first round in 31 mins ... In second game he saved 3 match points but it was too late in the end ... Ajay also lost in straight games against higher ranked Indonesian ... Kashyap tried to fightback after losing first game, he won second very dominantly but in decider Marc Zwiebler proved strong to him.

Saina started with confident win against Korean, next she is facing Taipei player.

Jwala and Ashwini started their campaign with dominating win in 23 min against Danish pair ... In next round they r facing another Danish pair, who upset 7th seed Indonesian pair in the first round ... In mens doubles also Rupesh and Sanave gave positive start with comfortable win over Malaysian pair.

But match of the day played by Diju and Jwala in mixed doubles ... In first game Korean pair was in lead from the start, Diju and Jwala managed to catch up at 17-all ... Diju and Jwala wasted a game point at 20-19 and Korean converted second game point to won first game ... In second game Diju and Jwala take control early and won it comfortably ... In decider both pairs were close till end, didn't giving any cushion to other pair ... Jwala and Diju saved 3 match points before converting 2nd match point to won this marathon match.

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