Badminton News
At $50K Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Grand Prix Open 2011, Phan Dinh Phung

[QF] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,133) l Mingtian Fu (SIN,41) 21-18 14-21 17-21
[QF] Sindhu P. V. (IND,95) l (3) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,19) 21-11 11-21 19-21
[QF] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,117) l Kaori Imabeppu (JPN,49) 21-18 13-21 12-21
[QF] (12) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,64) bt Beng Hong Kuan (MAS,258) 21-14 21-12
[QF] (5) Ajay Jayaram (IND,29) bt (4) Alamsyah Yunus (INA,32) 15-21 21-11 21-15

[QF] (4) Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l Eui Seok Chung (KOR)/ Hyun Young Yoo (KOR) 19-21 12-21

[SF] (12) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,64) vs (1) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,7)
[SF] (5) Ajay Jayaram (IND,29) vs (2) Sho Sasaki (JPN,9)

Ajay scored fighting win over Indonesian Alamsyah Yunus after losing the first game ... Other hand Guru scored comfortable win against lwly ranked Malaysian ... In the semis our both players r facing top-10 top 2 seeds to place in the final.

Our all girls lost after winning the first game ... Sindhu won the first game comfortably against top-20 player but lost the second easily ... In decider she fought well but failed to cross the final hurdle ... Aditi fought well against Mingtian ... She won the first game and then tried hard but couldn't overcome the challenge ... Arundhati started well winning the first game but she couldn't match to Kaori Imabeppu in last 2 games which Kaori won comfortably ... In MXD 4th seed Arun and Aparna failed to their first real test against Koreans.