Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Badminton News
At $400K Malaysia Badminton Open, Kuala Lumpur (Super Series)

[Q1] Anand Pawar (IND,50) l Ji Hoon Hong (KOR,87) 16-21 12-21
[Q1] (1) Gurusaidutt R.M.V. (IND,38) bt Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA,51) 21-23 21-18 21-14
[Q1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,49) l Zulfadli Zulkiffli (MAS,72) 18-21 18-21
[Q1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l Yee Han Chong (MAS)/ Kian Meng Tan (MAS) 11-21 16-21
[Q1] Sanjeeth S. (IND)/ Jagdish Yadav (IND) l Zheng Yi Kok (MAS)/ Keat Zhen Kong (MAS) 16-21 21-14 20-22
[Q1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) bt Calvin Jia Hong Ong (MAS)/ To Chia Vern See (MAS) 21-12 21-15

[Q2] (1) Gurusaidutt R.M.V. (IND,38) bt Yan Kit Chan (HKG,56) 21-13 21-9

[Q2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) l Chun Hei Lee (HKG)/ Hoi Wah Chau (HKG) 18-21 21-19 15-21

[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) vs Daren Liew (MAS,13)
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,11) vs Takuma Ueda (JPN,29)
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,40) vs (Q) Gurusaidutt R.M.V. (IND,38)
[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) vs Juan Gu (SIN,18)
[R1] Sindhu P.V. (IND,17) vs (3) Tine Baun (DEN,6)

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs (7) Angga Pratama (INA)/ Ryan Agung Saputra (INA)
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Yu Yan Vanessa Neo (SIN)/ Dellis Yuliana (SIN)
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) vs Heather Olver (ENG)/ Kate Robertshaw (ENG)
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (Q) Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Vita Marissa (INA)
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) vs Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Gabrielle White (ENG)

Only Guru qualified for the main-draw from qualifying ... In the first qualifying round former top-20 experienced Indonesian Andre Kurniawan Tedjono stretched him to three games ... After losing the first game Guru won the match in 69 minutes ... In the final qualifying round he scored convincing win over Hong Kong's Yan Kit Chan in 39 minutes ... Anand Pawar and Sai Praneeth lost in the first qualifying round against their lower ranked Asian opponents.

In the doubles qualifying only our mixed pair Akshay Dewalkar and Pradnya Gadre managed to enter in the final qualifying before losing to Hong Kong pair ... All other pairs lost in the first qualifying round.

In main-draw Guru is facing Sourabh Varma ... Ajay is having tough match against Malaysian Daren Liew ... Winnable match for Kashyap against Ueda.

Top Chinese players r skipping this tournament so Saina is to-seed and facing Singaporean top-20 player Juan Gu ... Sindhu having tough match against former WR #1 Tine Baun.

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