Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Badminton News
At 2012 Thomas and Uber Cup Preliminery Round - Asia, Macau, China

Thomas Cup - Group B

(8) India bt (14) Macau, China 5-0

[MS1] Ajay Jayaram (IND) bt Chi Man Lam (Macau) 21-9 21-11
[MD2] Sanave Thomas (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) bt Ion Weng Lo (Macau)/ Io Keng Iao (Macau) 21-6 21-2
[MS2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND) bt Chi Chong Ng (Macau) 21-10 21-7
[MD1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pranav Chopra (IND) bt Kin Fai Leong (Macau)/ Chi Man Lam (Macau) 21-11 21-13
[MS3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND) bt Hok Man Lou (Macau) 21-5 21-8


Uber Cup - Group W
(6) India l (9) Malaysia 2-3

[WS1] Saina Nehwal (IND) bt Jing Yi Tee (MAS) 21-17 21-16
[WD1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Eei Hui Chin (MAS)/ Pei Tty Wong (MAS) 12-21 16-21
[WS2] Sindhu P. V. (IND) bt Lydia Li Ya Cheah (MAS) 16-21 21-13 21-9
[WD2] Prajakta Sawant (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) l Liu Ying Goh (MAS)/ Vivian Kah Mun Hoo (MAS) 17-21 17-21
[WS3] Sayali Gokhale (IND) l Li Lian Yang (MAS) 21-11 15-21 20-22

Our Thomas team gave expected easy victory and officially book their place in the quarter-final of the Thomas cup ... Their next match against Indonesian team will decide group winner.

Very closely fought match played between India and Malaysia in the Uber cup ... Saina gave winning start but Jwala and Ashwini lost their doubles match ... Then Sindhu gave 2-1 lead scoring comeback victory but Prajakta and Pradnya lost against Malaysian pair ... In the last deciding match Sayali played against Li Lian Yang ... Sayali won the first game but Li Lian Yang fought back winning the second ... In the decider Sayali take 11-2 lead but Li Lian Yang came back stongly ... She won 9 points in a row from 8-14 to take 17-14 lead ... Sayali saved 3 match points from 17-20 but failed to save the fourth match point ... So with that Malaysia qualifyied for the quarter-finals with China in the Uber cup.

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