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At $120K Yonex-Sunrise Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold 2011, Alor Setar

[R1] RMV Gurusai Datt (IND,52) l Beryno Jiann Tze Wong (MAS,138) 21-19 21-23 18-21
[R1] (12) P. Kashyap (IND,24) bt Chong Chieh Lok (MAS,151) 22-20 21-7
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,43) bt Yun Lung Chan (HKG,129) 21-14 21-19
[R1] Anup Sridhar (IND,122) bt (8) Choong Hann Wong (MAS,17) 21-15 21-15
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,40) l (3) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,8) 21-10 7-21 16-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) l (9) Hyun Il Lee (KOR,18) 12-21 21-12 18-21
[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Jiayuan Chen (SIN,53) 21-16 21-12

[R2] (12) P. Kashyap (IND,24) l Brice Leverdez (FRA,31) 21-17 15-21 18-21
[R2] Arvind Bhat (IND,43) l (11) Sho Sasaki (JPN,15) 21-13 20-22 15-21
[R2] Anup Sridhar (IND,122) l Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,37) 18-21 7-21

[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Ayane Kurihara (JPN,30)

Surprising loss of Guru against lower ranked Malaysian ... In first 2 games he was leading from the start but gave chance for Wong to fightback ... In second game he had 2 match points at 20-19 and 21-20 but failed to convert.

Anup scored excellent easy upset win over top-20 Malaysian but he failed to repeat that performance against experienced Sony in the second round.

Kashyap also lost in the second round after wining first game against Frenchman ... Arvind Bhat had excellent opportunity to upset WR #15 Japanese ... He dominated in the first game and had 2 match points at 20-18 in the second round ... He failed to convert those and Japanese capitalized on that to won this game and then match.

So now only Saina remain in the draw ... Next she is facing #30 ranked Japanese player ... Considering her recent performance against Japanese player I would say tricky match for her.