Wednesday, March 07, 2012

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

[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,29) l Marc Zwiebler (GER,14) 13-21 21-15 9-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) l (2) Dan Lin (CHN,2) 18-21 15-21
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt (Q) Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA,33) 21-11 13-21 21-13
[R1] (Q) P. V. Sindhu (IND,28) l Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,16) 21-14 16-21 19-21

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Ingo Kindervater (GER)/ Johannes Schoettler (GER) 22-24 17-21
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Anneke Feinya Agustin (INA)/ Nitya Krishinda Maheswari (INA) 21-16 21-16
[R1] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Peng Soon Chan (MAS)/ Liu Ying Goh (MAS) 14-21 12-21

[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Hongyan Pi (FRA,23)
[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (2) Quing Tian (CHN)/ Yunlei Zhao (CHN)

Jwala and Ashwini started with good straight games victory over higher ranked Indonesian pair but in the second round they r facing WR #2 Chinese pair ... Still this win will help them to gain important ranking points for London Olympics qualification.

Saina had surprisingly tough match against Thai qualifier Sapsiree Taerattanachai ... After winning the first game Saina lost her concentration and lost the second game easily but in the decider Saina brought back her composure to win it comfortably ... Next Saian is facing veteran French woman Hongyan Pi.

Sindhu gave spirited performance against another young Taipei player Tai ... Sindhu started well with winning the first game but Tai came back to win the second after taking early lead ... In the third game from 3-5 Tai take control of the game ... She kept couple of points lead until 18-16 ... Sindhu won next 3 points to take 19-18 lead but Tai won last 3 points to complete the victory.

Ajay gave decent performance against WR #2 Dan Lin ... Kashyap needed to win these matches to qualify for Olympics as India's #1 ... After losing the first game Kashyap fought back to win the second but in the third Marc Zwiebler didn't give any chance to Kashyap and won it comfortably.

In MXD Jwala and Diju failed to produce any fight against WR #9 Malaysian pair ... In mens doubles Rupesh and Sanave take the first game in extra points but after winning that German pair proved better pair in the second.

No comments:

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...