Thursday, September 22, 2011

Badminton News
At $200K Japan Masters, Tokyo

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) l Simon Santoso (INA,17) 20-22 16-21
[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,23) l (6) Jin Chen (CHN,6) 15-21 21-6 18-21
[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Mingtian Fu (SIN,29) 21-17 21-16

[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (7) Jung Eun Ha (KOR)/ Min Jung Kim (KOR) 9-21 21-18 22-24
[R2] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l (5) Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Wen Hsing Cheng (TPE) 15-21 10-21

[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs Juan Gu (SIN,23)

Saina take early 9-5 lead but Mingtian managed to catch her at 14-all ... Saina won the first game after winning 4 pts in a row from 17-all ... In the second game Mingtian take early lead 12-8 but this time Saina caught with her at 13-all ... Again Saina won 5 pts in a row from 16-all to complete victory in 33 mins ... In quarters Saina is facing top ranked Singaporean who defeated local girl Sayaka Sato.

Jin Chen take early 7-2 lead and kept that to won the first game ... In the second game Kashyap won 8 pts in a row to take 8-1 lead, which he kept increasing to won this game losing only 6 pts ... In the third game Jin Chen take early 9-4 lead and managed to keep that most of the game ... But Kashyap won 4 pts in a row from 14-18 to 18-all ... Jin Chen won next 3 pts to complete victory in 67 mins.

From 1-2 down Ajay won next 6 pts to take 7-2 lead but from 11-6 he started to lose bunch of pts and Santoso managed to catch with him at 14-all ... Then Santoso take lead and had couple of game pts at 20-18 but Ajay saved those before Santoso converting 3rd to won the first game ... In the second game Santoso won 6 pts in a row from 0-2 down to take lead, which he managed to keep ... Ajay came near at 16-17 but Santoso won next 4 pts to complete victory in 43 mins.

Seeded Korean pair overpowered Jwala and Ashwini in the first game .... In the second game Indian pair take control early from 4-0 lead ... Koreans tried fightback When Indians were leading 19-13 ... Jwala and Ashiwini kept cool to won the second game ... In the third game again Indian pair take 5-0 early lead but Koreans caught with them at 7-all and take 11-8 lead ... This time Indians caught with them at 11-all and take 14-11 lead after winning 6 pts in a row ... Again Koreans managed to catch with them at 16-all but again Jwala and Ashwini won next 4 pts to lead 20-16 ... Koreans saved all 4 match pts to make it 20-all ... Indians saved a match pt at 22-21 but Koreans converted 2nd match point after saving 5 match pts.

5th seed Chinese Taipei pair defeated Diju and Jwala easily ... In the first game Chinese Taipei pair won 7 pts in a row from 12-13 to take control of the game and in the second game they won 12 pts in a row from 8-9.

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