Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Badminton News
At $200K Singapore Open Superseries 2011,

[R1] P. Kashyap (IND,23) l (8) Sung Hwan Park (KOR,8) 15-21 14-21
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Lan Lu (CHN,27) 21-18 13-21 21-16
[R1] (Q) Arundhati Pantawane (IND,169) l Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,18) 16-21 13-21

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN) 17-21 16-21
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Kyung Eun Jung (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR) 17-21 14-21

[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Shao-Chieh Cheng (TPE,11)

Kashyap and our women doubles team failed to produce much challenge to their respective Korean opponents.

Tzu Ying Tai proved too strong for Arundhati but creditable performance by her to reached main draw of Super series event.

In the first game after 5-7 down Saina take couple of points lead ... Lu caught with her at 10-all but after that Saina take 2/3 pts lead and maintained that to win the first game ... In the second game both players were tied at 11 all but from here Lu take control to win this game comfortably ... In the third game from 3-all Saina take early control and at 19-11 she was leading by 8 pts ... Lu tried fight back but Saina won required points cooly to moved into the second round in 56 mins ... Next she is facing WR #11 Shao-Chieh Cheng.

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