Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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

[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) l Daren Liew (MAS,13) 15-21 11-21
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,11) bt Takuma Ueda (JPN,29) 21-14 16-21 21-5
[R1] (Q) Gurusaidutt R.M.V. (IND,38) bt Sourabh Varma (IND,40) 21-11 21-14
[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) bt Juan Gu (SIN,18) 21-12 21-15
[R1] Sindhu P.V. (IND,17) l (3) Tine Baun (DEN,6) 16-21 21-18 17-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l (7) Angga Pratama (INA)/ Ryan Agung Saputra (INA) 12-21 16-21
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Yu Yan Vanessa Neo (SIN)/ Dellis Yuliana (SIN) 20-22 21-16 21-15
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) l Heather Olver (ENG)/ Kate Robertshaw (ENG) 21-11 4-3 Retd.
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (Q) Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Vita Marissa (INA) 20-22 17-21
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) l Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Gabrielle White (ENG) W/O

[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,11) vs (6) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,15)
[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) vs Pui Yin Yip (HKG,23)

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (6) Jin Ma (CHN)/ Jinhua Tang (CHN)

Guru scored comfortable and dominating win in 39 mins against Sourabh ... Saina also scored comfortable win against her Singaporean opponent in 29 mins ... Really fighting performance by Sindhu against Baun in 49 mins match ... After losing the first game Sindhu fought back to win the second game ... Sindhu won the second game winning 7 points in a row from 14-18 down but failed to keep same momentum in the final game ... Sindhu kept pace with Baun till 14-all ... Baun opened 3 points lead, 17-14 ... Sindhu reduced it to 16-17 but after that Baun showed her experience winning 4 points from next 5 points for a win ... Ajay failed to produce much fight to in-form Malaysian Daren Liew, who won the match in 33 minutes.

Kashyap won the first game easily against Ueda ... In the second game Ueda take early 4-1 lead which he kept increasing but Kashyap tried fightback from 9-16 ... Kashyap reduced lead to 16-18 but Ueda won last 3 points to make it one game-all ... In the final game Kashyap started with 9-0 lead which he kept increasing to 12-1 ... Kashyap kept increasing that lead and again won 7 points in a row from 13-4 to lead 20-4 ... Kashyap converted 2nd match point for a win in 55 minutes.

In doubles, Balan and Siki Reddy retired after winning the first game when Siki injured herself on the court ... Pranaav and Akshay failed to produce much fight to their seeded opponents and lost in 25 mins ... Ashwini and Pradnya scored superb fighting win over Singaporean pair ... They made excellent comeback after losing the first game in extra points.

In mixed doubles, Ashwini and Tarun lost against Indonesian qualifiers ... They had couple of game points in the first game and in the second game from 13-all Indonesian pair take control for the win ... Our other Indian pair gave walkover to their British opponents as Siki got injured in her women's doubles match.

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