Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Badminton News
At $400K Denmark Open 2012, Odense

[R1] (Q) Anand Pawar (IND,51) l (5) Sho Sasaki (JPN,6) 21-14 15-21 11-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,27) l (7) Pengyu Du (CHN,9) 21-19 8-21 9-21
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,32) bt (6) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN,8) 21-18 21-14
[R1] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Yeon Ju Bae (KOR,12) 21-17 21-17

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l Angga Pratama (INA)/ Ryan Agung Saputra (INA) 20-22 19-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Markis Kido (INA)/ Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth (INA) 18-21 15-21

[R2] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Minatsu Mitani (JPN,28)
[R2] Sourabh Varma (IND,32) vs Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,23)

Ananad started with winning the first game but after that Sho Sasaki controlled the match and completed victory in 54 minutes.

Saina scored straight games win over tricky Korean against he lost in their last meeting at Indian open ... The first game was well fought until late in the game but in the second game Saina take lead from the start and kept it to win it in 38 minutes.

Tarun and Arun fought well against Indonesians but failed to win important points.

Sourabh Varma scored huge upset win over local favorite and former WR #1 Peter Gade ... Gade is remained in top-10 despite his 36 yrs old age ... Sourabh became only 3rd Indian to beat him, before this Gopichand defeated him in 2001 at All England open and then Anup Sridhar defeated him in 2009 in Singapore Super Series ... All other Indian players failed to overcome Gade's challenge ... In the first game Sourbh opened 5-0 lead which he increased to 17-11 ... Gade reduced it to 16-17 but Sourabh kept his cool on next important points to won it ... In the second game from 6-5 Sourabh opened lead which he kept increasing and won this game comfortably.

Ajay started confidently against Du but after winning the first game Ajay failed to keep challenge with Du, who won last two games very comfortably.

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