Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Badminton News
At $200K India Open 2012, New Delhi

[Q1] Akshit Mahajan (IND,313) l Vladimir Ivanov (RUS,54) 16-21 14-21
[Q1] Sameer Verma (IND,151) bt Ivan Sozonov (RUS,84) 21-16 21-19
[Q1] Anand Pawar (IND,56) bt Nandagopal K. (IND,171) 21-8 21-16
[Q1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,90) l Yong Zhao Ashton Chen (SIN,63) 21-14 24-26 19-21
[Q1] Rohit Yadav (IND,243) bt Vladimir Malkov (RUS,81) 23-21 19-21 21-16
[Q1] Anup Sridhar (IND,100) l Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA,49) 18-21 15-21
[Q1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,80) bt Srikanth K. (IND,251) 21-12 21-18
[Q1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,69) bye
[Q1] Sayali Gokhale (IND,118) l Sabrina Jaquet (SUI,79) 20-22 21-23
[Q1] Thulasi P. C. (IND,86) l Lianne Tan (BEL,51) 17-21 18-21
[Q1] Tanvi Lad (IND,134) l Elizabeth Cann (ENG,50) 20-22 15-21
[Q1] Neha Pandit (IND,128) bt Trupti Murgunde (IND,UNR) 21-11 11-2 Retd
[Q1] Mohita Sahdev (IND,211) bye

[Q2] Sameer Verma (IND,151) l Vladimir Ivanov (RUS,54) 21-17 23-25 14-21
[Q2] Anand Pawar (IND,56) l Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,51) 12-21 14-21
[Q2] Rohit Yadav (IND,243) l Yong Zhao Ashton Chen (SIN,63) 13-21 13-21
[Q2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,80) l Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA,49) 21-19 19-21 21-23
[Q2] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,69) bt Sabrina Jaquet (SUI,79) 19-21 21-13 21-18
[Q2] Neha Pandit (IND,128) bt Mohita Sahdev (IND,211) 21-17 22-24 21-14

[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,27) vs Sourabh Varma (IND,41)
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,31) vs Yuhan Tan (BEL,47)
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,42) vs Qualifier
[R1] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs Pui Yin Yip (HKG,19)
[R1] Sindhu P. V. (IND,27) vs Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,13)
[R1] (Q) Arundhati Pantawane (IND,69) vs Jie Yao (NED,18)
[R1] (Q) Neha Pandit (IND,128) vs Jing Yi Tee (MAS,63)

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (1) Jae Sung Jung (KOR)/ Yong Dae Lee (KOR)
[R1] Bennet Antony (IND)/ Suraj P. H. (IND) vs Ki Jung Kim (KOR)/ Sa Rang Kim (KOR)
[R1] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs Bodin Issara (THA)/ Maneepong Jongjit (THA)
[R1] Mayank Behal (IND)/ Manjush Mohan K. K. (IND) vs (3) Biao Chai (CHN)/ Zhendong Guo (CHN)
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) vs Angga Pratama (INA)/ Ryan Agung Saputra (INA)
[R1] (Q) Gopi Raju G.(IND)/ Shivam Sharma (IND) vs V Shem Goh (MAS)/ Khim Wah Lim (MAS)
[R1] Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND)/ Hemanagendra Babu T. (IND) vs (4) Mohammad Ahsan (INA)/ Bona Septano (INA)
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) vs Adam Cwalina (POL)/ Michal Logosz (POL)
[R1] Manish Gupta (IND)/ Gaurav Venkat (IND) vs (Q) Sanjeeth S. (IND)/ Jagadish Yadav (IND)
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy (IND) vs Yixin Bao (CHN)/ Qianxin Zhong (CHN)
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt (7) Lok Yan Poon (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG) W/O
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) vs Duanganong Aroonkesorn THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA)
[R1] Jyotshna P. (IND)/ Thulasi P. C. (IND) vs Hye Won Eom (KOR)/ Ye Na Jang (KOR)

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Muhammad Rijal (INA)/ Debby Susanto (INA)
[R1] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Tao Jiaming (CHN)/ Xia Huan (CHN)
[R1] Pranav Chopra (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) vs Noriyasu Hirata (JPN)/ Miyuki Maeda (JPN)
[R1] Gaurav Venkat (IND)/ Juhi Dewangan (IND) bye
[R1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) vs (7) Shintaro Ikeda (JPN)/ Reiko Shiota (JPN)
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs (3) Yong Dae Lee (KOR)/ Jung Eun Ha (KOR)
[R1] Hemanagendra Babu T. (IND)/ Jyotshna P. (IND) vs Hanbin He (CHN)/ Yixin Bao (CHN)
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Siki Reddy (IND) vs Danny Bawa Chrisnanta (SIN)/ Yu Yan Vanessa Neo (SIN)

As expected big Indian contingent is playing in this Indian Super series ... Good opportunity for our players to earn some important ranking points.

In the first qualifying round Prannoy lost big opportunity of upsetting higher ranked Singaporean ... He wasted 2 match points in the second after winning the first game easily ... Chen converted 4th match point and completed victory after 71 minutes ... Sameer Verma scored convincing upset win over top-100 Russian ... Another surprise winner was Rohit Yadav who also defeated top-100 Russian.

In the final qualifying Anand and Rohit lost easily against their respective opponents ... Sameer Verma and Sai Praneeth gave fighting performance against their higher ranked opponents ... Both players wasted 3 match points in their matches ... Sameer had 3 match points in the second game which he failed to convert and Sai Praneeth had 3 match points in the final game when he was leading 20-18 but he also failed to convert.

Arundhati Pantawane qualified for maindraw after comeback win over Swiss girl ... After losing the first game Arundhati dominated to win the second ... In the decider Swiss girl was leading 18-16 but Arundhati won last 5 points in a row to complete the victory ... Neha's win against Mohita was expected but Mohita gave fighting performance in this match and won the second game.

Interesting first round match between Ajay and Sourabh ... Our all Olympics bound doubles pair having tough first round matches.

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