Badminton News
At $120K Australian Open Grand Prix Gold 2011, Melbourne

[Q1] Eshan Naqvi (IND,UNR) bt Athi Selladurai (AUS,UNR) 21-10 21-17
[Q1] Ajit Wijetilek (IND,536) bt Ernest Yu Loong Ng (AUS,UNR) 21-7 21-12

[Q2] Eshan Naqvi (IND,UNR) bt Cham Chen (AUS,UNR) 21-13 17-21 21-14
[Q2] Ajit Wijetilek (IND,536) bt James Audley (AUS,UNR) 21-12 21-12

[Q3] Eshan Naqvi (IND,UNR) bt (4) Joel Findlay (AUS,443) 21-15 14-4 Retd
[Q3] Ajit Wijetilek (IND,536) l (6) Marius Fartum (NOR,392) 16-21 18-21

[R1] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,45) bt Nicholas Jinadasa (USA,139) 21-19 21-15
[R1] Aditya Elango (IND,91) l (9) Tommy Sugiarto (INA,32) 12-21 5-21
[R1] (Q) Eshan Naqvi (IND,UNR) l (15) Yan Kit Chan (HKG,51) 7-21 8-21
[R1] (16) R.M.V Gurusai Datt (IND,57) l Yi Lu (CHN,134) 11-21 18-21

[R2] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,45) bt Kaveh Mehrabi (IRI,101) 21-14 21-16

[R3] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,45) vs (1) Boonsak Ponsana (THA,6)

[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) vs (1) Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Noriyasu Hirata (JPN)

Young unranked Eshan Naqvi qualified for the main-darw before losing easily against around 50 ranked Hong Kong player ... Arvind Bhat performed as per his ranking to reach in pre-quarter-final but now having tough task against WR #6 Thai player Boonsak Ponsana ... Guru again disappointed his one-sided loss against Chinese opponenet.