Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,35) bt Valdimir Ivanov (RUS,63) 21-19 21-17
[R2] P Kashyap (IND,28) l (7) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,7) 22-24 21-17 20-22
[R2] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) bt Chole Magee (IRL,53) 21-10 21-7

[R3] Ajay Jayaram (IND,35) vs (6) Jin Chen (CHN,6)
[R3] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) vs (14) Pui Yin Yip (HKG,15)

[R2] (16) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Jien Guo Ong (MAS)/ Sook Chin Chong (MAS) 21-11 21-15
[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt (2) Wen Hsing Cheng (TPE)/ Yu Chin Chien (TPE) 21-18 21-18

[R3] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (11) Lok Yan Poon (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG)
[R3] (16) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (5) Joachim Fischer Nielsen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN)

Solid start in World Championship for Saina ... She won her first match losing only 17 points ... She dominated in both games to scored comfortable win in 26 mins ... Next she is having top-15 Hong Kong girl's challenge ... Ajay also joined her in the third round with win over Russian ... In the first game Ajay take early 2/3 points lead but Ivanov made it 18-all ... Ajay won next 2 pts before converting 2nd game point to win the game ... In the second game Ajay take control from 11-all and kept his advantage to win the match ... Next he is facing big challenge against WR #6 Chinese Jin Chen.

Kashyap played excellent match against WR #7 Tien Minh Nguyen but choked in end to lose this long match ( 1 hr 20 mins) ... Before this match Kashyap had 1-2 win-loss record against him ... Nguyen defeated Kashyap 21-18 21-10 in their last meeting at last month's US Open GP ... In this match Nguyen take 16-13 before Kashyap made it 16-all ... He wasted 2 game points before losing the first game to Nguyen ... In the second game Nguyen take 1-6 lead and was leading major part of the game but Kashyap kept trying and reducing distance point by point ... Kashyap caught with Nguyen at 16-all and then only lose a point to won the second game ... In the third game Kashyap opened early 8-3 lead and kept that advantage till end ... Kashyap was leading 20-15 but he wasted 5 match points and Nguyen won 7 pts in a row to complete remarkable win.

Happy to see Diju won his first match after long injury break with Jwala in MXD against Malaysian pair ... Next they r facing WR #5 Danis player.

Tterrific victory by Jwala and Ashwini though their WR #2 opponents weren't play like their ranking ... But this was a biggest victory for Jwala and Ashwini as a pair ... Next they r facing #11 ranked Hong Kong pair.

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