Monday, August 08, 2011

Badminton News
At Yonex BWF World Championships 2011, London, England

[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,35) bt (15) Kenichi Tago (JPN,18) 21-12 21-19
[R1] P Kashyap (IND,28) vs Dieter Domke (GER,85)
[R1] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) bye

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Michael Fuchs (GER)/ Oliver Roth (GER) 9-21 21-18 21-17
[R1] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Tarun Kona (IND) l Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Yu Lang Lin (TPE) 17-21 13-21
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Eva Lee (USA)/ Paula Lynn Obanana (USA) 21-9 21-18
[R1] (16) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bye

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,35) vs Valdimir Ivanov (RUS,63)
[R2] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) vs Chole Magee (IRL,53)

[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (2) Wen Hsing Cheng (TPE)/ Yu Chin Chien (TPE)
[R2] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (8) Alvent Yulianto Chandra (INA)/ Hendra Aprida Gunawan (INA)

BWF World Championships is started from today at London ... Saina is 6th seed in the singles and having bye in the first round ... She is in the same draw of 3rd seed Xin Wang, they can face each other in quarters.

Ajay and Kashyap r in men singles ... Ajay had tough first roundagainst top-20 Japanese player Tago ... But Ajay started with upset win over seeded Japanese opponent ... After 6-7 down he dominated the first game to won it comfortably ... In the second game he take 11-2 early lead ... Tago tried to fightback but Ajay managed to keep lead to won this match.

In women doubles Jwala and Ashwini had winning start against American pair but next they r having tough match against WR #3 Chinese Taipei pair ... In men doubles Rupesh and Sanave lost the first game easily against German pair but from the second game they managed to took early 3/4 pts advantage which they kept until the end in next 2 games to scored little tight win ... Next they r facing WR #8 Indonesian pair ... Not a winning start for Pranav Chopra and Tarun Kona in their first World championship ... In both games Chinese Taipei pair take early lead and never gave chance to our pair to get back in the match.

In MXD after long back injury break Diju is participating with Jwala ... They r 16th seed and having first round bye but difficult to see how Diju perform after his long injury break.

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