Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Badminton News
At Singapore Open Superseries 2011,

[Q1] RMV Gurusai Datt (IND,62) bt Hsuan Yi Hsueh (TPE,59) 16-21 21-18 21-12
[Q1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,36) l Muhammad Hafiz Hashim (MAS,42) 15-21 21-14 22-24
[Q1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,169) bt Hsiao Huan Chen (TPE,71) 18-21 21-17 21-19

[Q2] RMV Gurusai Datt (IND,62) l (3) Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,35) 20-22 16-21
[Q2] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,169) bt Michelle Li (CAN,47) 21-14 14-21 21-19

[R1] P. Kashyap (IND,23) vs (8) Sung Hwan Park (KOR,8)
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Lan Lu (CHN,27)
[R1] (Q) Arundhati Pantawane (IND,169) vs Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,18)

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN)
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Kyung Eun Jung (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR)

Gurusai scored good comeback win over Taipei player after losing the first game ... In other match Ajay had chances in the decider ... He wasted 5 match points, he was up 20-17 before Malaysian fought back and defeated him.

Arundhati played excellent match against 100 ranked higher opponent ... In the first game both players were neck to neck until 16-all then Hsiao won 3 pts and kept that lead to won the first game ... In the second game Hsiao take early lead 2-6 but Arundhati equaled at 7-all and take lead ... Arundhati increased lead upto 17-12 but Hsiao made it 17-all ... Arundhati won next 4 pts to won the second game ... In the decider Hsiao take early 1-4 lead but Arundhati made it 4-all ... Hsiao regained lead 812 then 11-14 but again Arundhati equaled at 14-all ... Then Hsiao take 18-16 lead but Arundhati made it 18-all and won 3 pts from last 4 pts to scored upset win.

In the second qualifying matches, after falling behing Gurusai tried comeback in the match but Tanongsak kept winning important points to beat Guru.

Arundhati played another exceptional match to scored win over Canadian top-50 player ... In the first game she take early lead but Li made it 10-all and take 12-14 lead ... Arundhati won next 9 pts to won the first game ... In the second game after Li didn't give a chance to Arundhati after taking lead from 8-all to won it comfortably ... In decider Li take early 2-6 lead but Arundhati made it 7-6 ... Again Li take 9-11 and 13-15 lead but Arundhati managed to equalt it at 15-all ... Arundhati won 3 pts in a row from 17-18 to gave 3 match point and converted 2nd to moved into super series main-draw ... She is facing top-20 Taipei player in the first round.

In Singles maindraw Saina is in top draw and again facing Lan Lu in the first round.

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