Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Badminton News 
At $150K Asia Championships 2012, Shandong, China

[R1] (15) Ajay Jayaram (IND,27) bt Jen Hao Hsu (TPE,35) 21-19 21-19
[R1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,89) l (7) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,10) 6-21 20-22
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,152) l (4) Simon Santoso (INA,9) 19-21 14-21
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,81) bt Niluka Karunaratne (SRI,51) w/o
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,31) l (2) Long Chen (CHN,3) 9-21 13-21

[R2] (15) Ajay Jayaram (IND,29) vs Nan Wei (HKG,110)
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,81) vs (11) Wing Ki Wong (HKG,19)
[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs Kaori Imabeppu (JPN,52)

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) vs (1) Biao Chai (CHN)/ Zhendong Guo (CHN)
[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Ki Jung Kim (KOR)/ Sa Rang Kim (KOR)
[R1] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs (6) Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN)
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Vita Marissa (INA)/ Nadya Melati (INA)
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) vs Kai Hsin Chiang (TPE)/ Pei-Ling Tsai (TPE)

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (Q) Chih Hsun Yang (TPE)/ Tsai Yi Wen (TPE)
[R1] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Riky Widianto (INA)/ Puspita Richi Dili (INA)
[R1] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) vs Noriyasu Hirata (JPN)/ Miyuki Maeda (JPN)
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs Ki Jung Kim (KOR)/ Kyung Eun Jung (KOR)

No upsets on the first day ... Our all players lost their matches against higher ranked opponents ... Only Ajay and Sai Praneeth faced lower ranked opponents and they r in the second round.

Table Tennis News

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