Thursday, October 27, 2011

Badminton News
At $200K Yonex Badminton French Open 2011, Paris (Superseries)

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) l (6) Jin Chen (CHN,6) 19-21 14-21
[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) l Xuerui Li (CHN,15) 18-21 29-30

[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (6) Jung Eun Ha (KOR)/ Min Jung Kim (KOR) 13-21 12-21

Saina and Xuerui were exchanging lead in the first game ... Xuerui take 13-11 and 15-13 lead but Saina fought back to lead 17-15 ... Xuerui caught her at 17-all and win 3 points in a row from 18-all to won the first game ... In the second game Xuerui take 4-2 lead which she increased to 9-4 but Saina again fought back to make it 10-all ... From 12-all Saina take 14-12 lead which she increased to 18-13 but this time Xuerui fought back winning next 6 points in a row to make it 18-19 ... Saina won next 2 points but Xuerui saved a game point, 20-all ... Xuerui had a match point which Saina saved to make it 21-all ... Then against Xuerui saved another three game points, 24-all ... After that Saina saved couple of match points to malke it 26-all ... After Xuerui saved 5th game point Saina again saved 2 match points ... As per rule at 29 all, whoever score the next point is the winner of the game and Xuerui won that point to complete the victory in 48 minutes ... Heartbreaking loss to Saina who saved 5 match points but failed to won crucial winning point in the second game.

In the first game Ajay produced fighting performance but Jin proved stong in the second in this 46 minutes match.

Jwala and Ashwini failed to produce any fight against 6th seed Koreans.

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