Thursday, April 28, 2011

Badminton News
At $200K Yonex – Sunrise India Open Superseries, New Delhi

[R2] (Q) Sourabh Verma (IND,230) bt (7) Kenichi Tago (JPN,24) 21-19 18-21 21-11
[R2] R.M.V Gurusai Datt (IND,52) bt Yuhan Tan (GER,76) 21-13 14-21 21-13
[R2] P Kashyap (IND,23) l (2) Taufik Hidayat (INA,2) 17-21 19-21

[R2] Attri Manu (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) l (1) Kien Keat Koo (MAS)/ Boon Heong Tan (MAS) 9-21 14-21
[R2] (8) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Yohanes Rendy Sugiarto (INA)/ Afiat Yuris Wirawan (INA) 19-21 12-21
[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Jyotshna Polavarapu (IND) l (1) Miyuki Maeda (JPN)/ Satoko Suetsuna (JPN) 8-21 16-21
[R2] (8) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Eei Hui Chin (MAS)/ Pei Tty Wong (MAS) 20-22 18-21
[R2] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) l (7) Muhammad Rijal (INA)/ Debby Susanto (INA) 11-21 21-19 13-21
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) l (5) Peng Soon Chan (MAS)/ Liu Ying Goh (MAS) 18-21 24-22 12-21

[QF] (Q) Sourabh Verma (IND,230) vs (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1)
[QF] R.M.V Gurusai Datt (IND,52) vs (8) Yun Hu (HKG,20)

Sourabh Verma scored another upset win showing his first round win wasn't fluke, this time he defeated top-25 Japanese shuttler Kenichi Tago in 60 mins ... In the first game he was falling behind on points until he caught with Tago at 15-all ... He take 3 points lead at 19-16 to won the first game ... In the second game both were going neck to neck, Sourabh take 16-13 lead but Tago won next 7 points to won the second game ... In decider Sourabh take 6-0 early lead and kept pressure to won it easily ... In quarters he is having toughest challenge of WR #1 Malaysian Chong Wei Lee.

Surprisingly tough match for Gurusai against German player ... After winning first game he lost second before winning decider comfortably ... In quarters he is facing WR #20 Hong Kong player Yun Hu.

Our new mixed doubles pair gave tough fight to seeded pairs ... Kashyap also played respectable match against Hidayat.

But our seeded doubles pair lost in their first match after receiving bye in the first round.

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