Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Badminton News
At $350K All England Open Badminton Championships 2012, Birmingham (Super Series Premier)

[Q1] Sourabh Varma (IND,44) l (4) Hsuan Yi Hsueh (TPE,34) 20-22 22-20 16-21
[Q1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,39) bt Vladimir Ivanov (RUS,53) 21-19 21-17
[Q1] (1) P. V. Sindhu (IND,28) bt Rena Wang (USA,58) 21-19 21-14

[Q2] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,39) l Wei Feng Chong (MAS,57) 16-21 22-20 8-21
[Q2] (1) P. V. Sindhu (IND,28) bt Lindaweni Fanetri (INA,46) 21-14 21-18

[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,29) vs Marc Zwiebler (GER,14)
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) vs (2) Dan Lin (CHN,2)
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,) vs (Q) Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA,33)
[R1] (Q) P. V. Sindhu (IND,28) vs Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,16)

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Ingo Kindervater (GER)/ Johannes Schoettler (GER)
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Anneke Feinya Agustin (INA)/ Nitya Krishinda Maheswari (INA)
[R1] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Peng Soon Chan (MAS)/ Liu Ying Goh (MAS)

Tough matches for our unseeded players and pairs as they all r facing higher ranked opponents in the first round.

Sindhu qualified for her first All England main-draw ... She started with a win against American player ... She started with a win against American player and in the final qualifying round she faced Indonesian Lindaweni Fanetri ... Sindhu gave clinical performance to beat Fanetri in the straight games.

Sourabh tried excellent comeback in the game from 12-18 but Hsueh proved better in the final stages of the first game ... Sourabh saved one game point but failed to save next ... In the second game Sourabh take early 8-3 lead but Hsueh caught with him at 11-all and he take 15-12 lead ... This time Sourabh made it 15-all, Hsueh opened 2 points lead at 19-17 but again Sourabh made it 19-all ... Sourabh saved a match point at 20-19 and converted first game point to make it 1 game all after 37 minutes ... In the third game also both players were neck to neck till 16-all but Hsueh won last 5 points to complete victory.

Guru also started with win over Russian player ... In the first game Russian Ivanov gave fight but Guru won last 2 important points from 19-all to won it and in the second game also Guru won last 4 points from 17-all to scored victory ... In the final qualifying round Guru faced Malaysian Wei Feng Chong, who upset 2nd seed Taipei player ... Chong won the first game but Guru fought back and won tight second game ... In the third Chong did not gave much chance to Guru and won it comfortably losing only 8 points.

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