Thursday, May 26, 2011

Badminton News
At 2011 Double Star BWF Sudirman Cup, Qingdao, China

Level 1 - Quarter Final
(10) India l (1) China 1-3

Sanave Thomas (IND)/ Rupesh Kumar (IND) l Yun Cai (CHN)/ Haifeng Fu (CHN) 15-21 14-21
Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Xin Wang (CHN,3) 21-15 21-11
P. Kashyap (IND,28) l Dan Lin (CHN,3) 14-21 14-21
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Xiaoli Wang (CHN)/ Yang Yu (CHN) 8-21 13-21

Indians were playing in their first Sudirman cup quarter-final and had a tough task of facing holders, host and WR #1 team China ... If we manages to win 1 rubber than also I will be happy.

Chinese double team gave a winning start with comfortable win over Indian pair in 27 mins ... In second match Saina started positively and take early 6-0 lead and managed to maintain that advantage to win the first game comfortably ... In second game also Saina started with 4-0 lead ... Wang cut that lead to 6-4 but again Saina take decisive lead winning next 7 points ... After that Saina didn't give much chance to Wang to complete dominating victory in 32 mins ... Huge victory for Saina considering demolishing Xin Wang and that's also in China ... Great work Saina.

In third match Dan Lin played excellent match to scored comfortable win over Kashyap in 33 mins to gave China 2-1 lead ... In 4th match WR #1 pair Xiaoli Wang and Yang Yu gave doubles lesson to WR #32 pair Jwala and Ashwini in 27 mins match ... Both teams decided to not playing mixed doubles tie ... With this in China completed victory to moved into Sudirman cup semi-final.

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