Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Badminton News
At $600K Indonesia Open Superseries Premier 2011, Jakarta

[Q1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,38) bt Arief Gifar Ramadhan (INA,152) 21-18 21-5
[Q2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,38) bt Joachim Persson (DEN,37) 17-21 21-19 21-16

[R1] (Q) Ajay Jayaram (IND,38) vs (5) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN,5)
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Linda Zechiri (BUL,27)

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Lotte Jonathans (NED)/ Paulien Van Dooremalen (NED)
[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (Q) Anthony Clark (ENG)/ Chris Langridge (ENG)

Ajay scored superb comeback win over experienced former top 10 Danish player Joachim Persson to qualify for maindraw in this big event ... In the first game Joachim take control from 1-all winning next 5 pts and kept that advantage to won it ... In the second game Ajay take early control opening 5-0 lead but Joachim made it 18-all from 18-13 ... But Ajay converted 2nd game point to won the second game ... In the decider after 3-5 down Ajay take small couple points lead and increased it to won the third game easily ... Now in maindraw Ajay having tough task to face another Danish player ... This time much more experienced and former WR #1 Peter Gade.

Kashyap is skipping this big Premier Super Series event, mostly due to injury ... Saina need to play as per ranking to keep her top 5 ranking.

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