Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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

[R2] (15) Ajay Jayaram (IND,29) l Nan Wei (HKG,110) 22-24 21-11 15-21
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,81) bt (11) Wing Ki Wong (HKG,19) 21-19 21-16
[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Kaori Imabeppu (JPN,52) 21-9 21-12

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l (1) Biao Chai (CHN)/ Zhendong Guo (CHN) 14-21 11-21
[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l Ki Jung Kim (KOR)/ Sa Rang Kim (KOR) 13-21 14-21
[R1] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l (6) Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN) 14-21 18-21
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Vita Marissa (INA)/ Nadya Melati (INA) 21-18 17-21 7-21

[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) bt Kai Hsin Chiang (TPE)/ Pei-Ling Tsai (TPE) 21-13 14-21 21-16
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (Q) Chih Hsun Yang (TPE)/ Tsai Yi Wen (TPE) 16-21 12-21
[R1] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Riky Widianto (INA)/ Puspita Richi Dili (INA) 21-16 21-18
[R1] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) l Noriyasu Hirata (JPN)/ Miyuki Maeda (JPN) 15-21 16-21
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) bt Ki Jung Kim (KOR)/ Kyung Eun Jung (KOR) 21-16 13-21 21-18

[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,81) vs (8) Zhengming Wang (CHN,15)
[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs Xiao Jia Chen (CHN,40)

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) vs Duanganong Aroonkesorn (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA)
[R2] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Sa Rang Kim (KOR)/ Hye In Choi (KOR)
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs Wai Hong Wong (HKG)/ Hoi Wah Chau (HKG)

Pradnya Gadre and Prajakta Sawant started with 3 games win over Taipei pair ... Jwala and Diju also scored straight games win.

Disappointed loss for Rupesh and Sanave and our other two men's pair lost against seeded pairs ... Also shocking loss of Jwala and Ashwini in the first round against Indonesian pair.

Disappointing loss for Ajay but excellent upset win by Sai over top 20 Wong in straight games ... Before this two times Sai lost against same player in straight games so sweet revenge for him.

Akshay Dewalkar and Pradnya Gadre scored very good win in MXD against Korean pair ... Fought back in the third after losing the second game.

Saina scored very comfortable win over Japanese player but next Saina and Sai r facing local Chinese opponents ... Sai is facing WR #15 Zhengming Wang and Saina is facing WR #40 Xiao Jia Chen.

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,...