Badminton News
London Olympics Qualified Indian Badminton players
Women's Singles
5 Saina Nehwal
Men's Singles
24 Kashyap Parupalli
Women's Doubles
16 Jwala Gutta/ Ashwini Ponnappa
Mixed Doubles
14 Valiyaveetil Diju/ Jwala Gutta
As expected reaching in the semis at Indian Super series helped Kashyap to become India's #1 men's singles player ... His ranking is improved by 6 places and Ajay manage to climb single position, #26.
Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa also reached in quarters at Indian Super series which help them to improve their ranking by 4 places ... So rank #16 they qualify for the Olympics.
Despite losing in the first round against Chinese pair Diju and Jwala climb one place in latest ranking so they r also qualified for the Olympics.
Sania will be facing 3 Wangs in the Olympics - WR #1 Yihan Wang, WR #2 Xin Wang and WR #3 Shixian Wang ... All other nations having single entry in the Women's draw other than 3 Chinese and 2 Koreans.
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At $120K Malaysia Open GP Gold 2012, Johor
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,79) bt Sukamta Evert (INA,156) 16-21 21-19 21-13
[R2] (7) Sourabh Varma (IND,41) bt Shu Wada (JPN,192) 21-7 10-21 21-14
[R2] Prannoy HS (IND,91) bt Igor Jenny (SUI,UNR) 21-8 21-10
[R2] Srikanth K. (IND,253) l (4) Daren Liew (MAS,31) 21-18 17-21 8-21
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,60) l (2) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,11) 20-22 11-21
[R2] (1) Sindhu PV (IND,28) bt Neha Pandit (IND,134) 21-9 21-12
[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,79) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 12-21 13-21
[R3] (7) Sourabh Varma (IND,41) bt Yong Zhao Ashton Chen (SIN,63) 21-18 21-16
[R3] Prannoy HS (IND,91) bt (4) Daren Liew (MAS,31) 21-18 21-19
[QF] (7) Sourabh Varma (IND,41) vs (3) Tommy Sugiarto (INA,18)
[QF] Prannoy HS (IND,91) vs (6) Muhammad Hafiz Hashim (MAS,33)
[QF] (1) Sindhu PV (IND,28) vs Kana Ito (IND,95)
Prannoy scored one-sided victory over unranked Swiss player but Sai and Sourabh needed three games to win their matches ... Srikanth gave another spirited performance against 4th seed Malaysian in first 2 games.
Sindhu scored very dominating win over Neha in 23 minutes ... Next she is facing lower ranked Japanese Ito.
In the third round Sai failed to produce any fight against WR #1 Lee ... But other hand Prannoy scored upset win over 4th seed Daren Liew in straight sets ... This was a big win for Prannoy against top-35 ranked player ... Next he is facing another Malaysian 6th seed Hashim ... Sourabh was facing Singapore's Yong Zhao Ashton Chen against him lost in straight games against Chen in their only meeting at Thomas cup preliminaries, but here he managed to turn table on him and scored straight games victory over him ... Next he is facing 3rd seed and top-20 Indonesian Sugiarto.
London Olympics Qualified Indian Badminton players
Women's Singles
5 Saina Nehwal
Men's Singles
24 Kashyap Parupalli
Women's Doubles
16 Jwala Gutta/ Ashwini Ponnappa
Mixed Doubles
14 Valiyaveetil Diju/ Jwala Gutta
As expected reaching in the semis at Indian Super series helped Kashyap to become India's #1 men's singles player ... His ranking is improved by 6 places and Ajay manage to climb single position, #26.
Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa also reached in quarters at Indian Super series which help them to improve their ranking by 4 places ... So rank #16 they qualify for the Olympics.
Despite losing in the first round against Chinese pair Diju and Jwala climb one place in latest ranking so they r also qualified for the Olympics.
Sania will be facing 3 Wangs in the Olympics - WR #1 Yihan Wang, WR #2 Xin Wang and WR #3 Shixian Wang ... All other nations having single entry in the Women's draw other than 3 Chinese and 2 Koreans.
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At $120K Malaysia Open GP Gold 2012, Johor
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,79) bt Sukamta Evert (INA,156) 16-21 21-19 21-13
[R2] (7) Sourabh Varma (IND,41) bt Shu Wada (JPN,192) 21-7 10-21 21-14
[R2] Prannoy HS (IND,91) bt Igor Jenny (SUI,UNR) 21-8 21-10
[R2] Srikanth K. (IND,253) l (4) Daren Liew (MAS,31) 21-18 17-21 8-21
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,60) l (2) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,11) 20-22 11-21
[R2] (1) Sindhu PV (IND,28) bt Neha Pandit (IND,134) 21-9 21-12
[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,79) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 12-21 13-21
[R3] (7) Sourabh Varma (IND,41) bt Yong Zhao Ashton Chen (SIN,63) 21-18 21-16
[R3] Prannoy HS (IND,91) bt (4) Daren Liew (MAS,31) 21-18 21-19
[QF] (7) Sourabh Varma (IND,41) vs (3) Tommy Sugiarto (INA,18)
[QF] Prannoy HS (IND,91) vs (6) Muhammad Hafiz Hashim (MAS,33)
[QF] (1) Sindhu PV (IND,28) vs Kana Ito (IND,95)
Prannoy scored one-sided victory over unranked Swiss player but Sai and Sourabh needed three games to win their matches ... Srikanth gave another spirited performance against 4th seed Malaysian in first 2 games.
Sindhu scored very dominating win over Neha in 23 minutes ... Next she is facing lower ranked Japanese Ito.
In the third round Sai failed to produce any fight against WR #1 Lee ... But other hand Prannoy scored upset win over 4th seed Daren Liew in straight sets ... This was a big win for Prannoy against top-35 ranked player ... Next he is facing another Malaysian 6th seed Hashim ... Sourabh was facing Singapore's Yong Zhao Ashton Chen against him lost in straight games against Chen in their only meeting at Thomas cup preliminaries, but here he managed to turn table on him and scored straight games victory over him ... Next he is facing 3rd seed and top-20 Indonesian Sugiarto.
