Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Badminton News
At $350K Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2012, Kowloon (Superseries)

[Q1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,65) bt Chun Hei Tam (HKG,280) 21-15 21-16
[Q1] (3) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,44) bt Po Wei Cheng (TPE,172) 21-15 21-16
[Q1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) bt Chien Cheng Lai (TPE)/ Joe Wu (AUS) 21-11 21-14

[Q2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,65) l Ka Long Ng (HKG,237) 17-21 21-12 15-21
[Q2] (3) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,44) l Yan Kit Chan (HKG,55) 18-21 19-21
[Q2] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) bt (3) Chun Hei Lee (HKG)/ Ka Long Ng (HKG) 21-13 13-21 21-15

[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,27) vs Zhengming Wang (CHN,17)
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,23) vs (7) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,10)
[R1] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) vs Aprilla Yuswandari (INA,34)
[R1] Sindhu P.V. (IND,25) vs (Q) Belaetrix Manuputi (INA,40)

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) vs Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Andrew Ellis (ENG)
[R1] (Q) Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) vs Alvent Yulianto Chandra (INA)/ Markis Kido (INA)
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs Hafiz Faisal (INA)/ Purta Eka Rhoma (INA)
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Audrey Fontaine (FRA)/ Emilie Lefel (FRA)
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) vs (2) Xiaoli Wang (CHN)/ Yang (F) Yu (CHN)
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (1) Chen Xu (CHN)/ Jin Ma (CHN)
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) vs Philip Chew (USA)/ Jamie Subandhi (USA)
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs (6) Fran Kurniawan (INA)/ Shendy Puspa Irawati (INA)
[R1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) vs Riky Widianto (INA)/ Puspita Richi Dili (INA)

As expected big Indian contingent at the Yonex Sunrise Hongkong open ... Saina is back on circuit after knee injury break ... Guru and Sai Praneeth lost against local players in the final qualifying, in that Sai Praneeth's loss was shocking against doubles specialist ... But Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy qualified for main-draw upsetting local 3rd seed pair in the qualifying.

In the singles Ajay and Kashyap having tough opening matches but Sindhu and Saina facing weaker Indonesian opponents.

Happy to see Ashwini is playing doubles with Pradnya ... Jwala Gutta is still out due to her sabbatical after the Olympics.

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