Thursday, June 14, 2012

Badminton News
At $650KK Indonesia Open 2012, Jakarta (Super Series Premier)

[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,23) bt (1) Long Chen (CHN,3) 21-17 21-14
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) l Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,21) 15-21 14-21
[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt (Q) Aprilla Yuswandari (INA,45) 21-17 14-21 21-13
[R2] Sindhu P. V. (IND,26) l (8) Juliane Schenk (GER,7) 14-21 14-21

[R2] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Tao Jiaming (CHN)/ Xia Huan (CHN) 13-21 21-14 18-21

[QF] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,23) vs Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (DEN,16)
[QF] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs (3) Shixian Wang (CHN,4)

Huge upset win by Kashyap against top-seed Chinese Long Chen ... This was his first top 5 win ... Kashyap scored very comfortable win ... In the first game he take control from 8-all after taking 3 points lead and managed to keep it ... In the second game Kashyap take control from 9-all taking 5 points lead and kept increasing to win this match in 44 minutes.

Another unnecessary tough outing for Saina ... She should have won this match easily instead after winning the first game she lost concentration ... Indonesian qualifier take full advantage to won it before Saina winning the third.

Diju and Jwala gave fighting performance in their loss against Chinese pair ... Ajay and Sindhu's respective opponents proved lot better than them.

Next Saina is facing first Wang challenge and Kashyap is facing Danish challenge ... Our both players r having 2-1 win-loss record against their respective opponents.

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,...