Friday, March 09, 2012

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

[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Hongyan Pi (FRA,23) 21-10 21-17
[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (2) Quing Tian (CHN)/ Yunlei Zhao (CHN) 10-21 15-21

[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs (7) Xuerui Li (CHN,5)

Saina scored comfortable win over Hongyan Pi in 34 minutes ... She was in control throughout the match ... Now real test against Chinese girls begin for Saina from quarter-final ... Next she is facing WR #5 Chinese Xuerui Li.

After losing the first game easily Jwala and Ashwini gave fighting performance in the second ... They were with Chinese pair until 14-all but after that Chinese pair won 7 pts from last 8 pts to completed victory in 31 minutes.

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