Sunday, June 17, 2012

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

[SF] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,23) l (7) Simon Santoso (INA,9) 15-21 12-21
[SF] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,10) 22-20 21-18

[F] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs (4) Xuerui Li (CHN,3)

Saina scored hard fought win over Korean ... In the first game she take early lead ... At one time Saina was leading 16-9 but she gave chance to Sung fightback and Sung caught with her at 17-all ... Saina saved a game point at 19-20 before converting her first game point ... In the second game both players were exchanging the lead ... Sung was up 16-13 when Saina won next 5 points to lead 18-16 ... After that Saina lose only single point before winning the game and match in 50 minutes ... Next she is facing WR #3 Xuerui Li.

Kashyap failed to produce any fight against Indonesian top player Simon Santoso in 45 minutes match.

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,...