Thursday, April 19, 2012

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

[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,81) l (8) Zhengming Wang (CHN,15) 9-21 18-21
[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) l Xiao Jia Chen (CHN,40) 13-21 16-21

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) l Duanganong Aroonkesorn (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA) 17-21 12-21
[R2] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Sa Rang Kim (KOR)/ Hye In Choi (KOR) 14-21 21-11 17-21
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs Wai Hong Wong (HKG)/ Hoi Wah Chau (HKG) 19-21 7-21

Turned to be disastrous day at China as our all players lost their matches ... Only Diju and Jwala managed to take their opponents in the third game ... As expected this new player Xiao Jia Chen proved strong for Saina and so another bad loss for Saina against lower ranked Chinese opponent.

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,...