Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Badminton News
At $125K Swiss Open 2012, Basel (GP Gold)

[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,44) bt Wing Ki Wong (HKG,20) 22-20 20-22 21-19
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,40) l (4) Jin Chen (CHN,5) 11-21 24-26
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,62) l Dmytro Zavadsky (UKR,46) 21-10 16-21 14-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) bt Lukas Nussbaumer (SUI,356) 21-9 21-12
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,29) bt Stanislav Pukhov (RUS,97) 21-9 21-10

[R2] Sourabh Varma (IND,44) vs (13) Wan Ho Shon (KOR,18)
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) vs Pedro Martins (POR,64)
[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,29) vs (7) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,10)
[R1] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Sayaka Sato (JPN,15)
[R1] Sindhu P. V. (IND,29) vs Jie Yao (NED,21)

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Ruud Bosch (NED)/ Koen Ridder (NED)
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (3) Shizuka Matsuo (JPN)/ Mami Naito (JPN)
[R1] (8) Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Shoji Sato (JPN)/ Shizuka Matsuo (JPN)

In the first round after losing the first game easily Guru fought hard in the second ... He had 2 game points but failed to convert and Jin Chen converted 3rd match point ... Disappointing loss of Arvind ... His struggle after injury continues.

Sourabh scored very good upset win over top-20 Hong Kong player ... After winning tight 1st game Sourabh had 2 match points at 20-18 but lost next 4 points to lose the game ... In the decider also Sourabh had 4 match points at 20-16 ... Wong won next 3 points but Sourabh converted 6th match point for the victory ... Next he is facing another top 20 Korean Wan Ho Shon ... In recently concluded Thomas cup match Sourabh lost against Shon in 3 games.

Kashyap need upset win over Tien Minh Nguyen to improve his ranking ... Last time they played 81 minutes logest match where Nguyen won in 3 games winning 2 games in extra points.

Ajay having very favourable draw as 2 seeded players from his draw withdrew ... If he win his matches then can face 4th seed Jin Chen in the quarters ... Good chance of improving his ranking for Olympic qualification.

Sayaka Sato still having 2-1 win-loss record against Saina but in their last meeting in December 2011 Saina defeated her in straight games in World Superseries Finals.

Hoping for better performance from Sindhu against Jie Yao ... In their last meeting Sindhu lost in straight games against her.

In doubles Jwala and Ashwini having tough opening round against WR #5 Japanese pair.

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