Thursday, January 10, 2013

Badminton News
At $1M Victor Korea Open 2013, Seoul (Super Series Premier)

[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,14) l (7) Yun Hu (HKG,10) 21-16 13-21 17-21
[R2] Sindhu P. V. (IND,19) l Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,13) 19-21 13-21
[R2] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) bt Mingtian Fu (SIN,41) 21-16 21-9

[QF] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) vs Li Han (CHN,26)

Only Saina managed to win ... Kashyap and Sindhu had disappointing losses.

Saina take early 3-1 lead which she kept increasing ... Mingtian tried fightback winning 4 points in a row from 8-14 but Saina kept her lead and won the first game ... In the second game from 2-all Saina opened lead which she kept increasing and won this match comfortably in 36 minutes ... In the quarters Saina is facing her first Chinese test of 2013 season ... She is having 2-0 win-loss record against Li Han but nevertheless tricky match.

Kashyap started well opening 4-0 lead which he increased to 13-5 ... After that Yun Hu fought back winning 4 points in a row ... He kept trying but in end Kashyap kept his nerve and won the first game ... Yun Hu started to play his game and opened 3-0 lead which he extended to 13-5 ... Kashyap tried fightback winning next 3 points ... Kashyap reduced lead to 13-18 but Yun Hu won next 3 points to win this game ... In the decider both players were exchanging the lead ... Yun Hu take 7-4 lead but Kashyap won next 4 points to retake the lead ... Then Kashyap take 13-10 lead this time Yun Hu won 4 points in a row for retaking the lead ... Kashyap again take 16-14 lead but from here Yun Hu raised his game ... He again won 4 points in row to lead 18-16 and gave another point before completing win in 70 minutes.

Sindhu had disappointing performance against Buranaprasertsuk ... She won last 2 matches against Buranaprasertsuk but this time she failed to challenge her Thai opponent ... In the first game after 4-all Sindhu was doing catching game ... From 6-9 down Sindhu made it 9-all ... After that Buranaprasertsuk opened couple of points lead ... Sindhu tried fightback from 16-20 saving 3 game points but Buranaprasertsuk converted 4th game point ... In the second game Buranaprasertsuk started with 4-0 lead ... Sidhnu managed to reduce it to 6-7 but after that this was all Buranaprasertsuk's show ... From 11-14 Sindhu managed to win only 2 points against Buranaprasertsuk ... Buranaprasertsuk won this match in 31 minutes.

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