Thursday, January 17, 2013

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

[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,11) l (6) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,15) 17-21 14-21
[R2] (Q) Gurusaidutt R.M.V. (IND,38) l (2) Kenichi Tago (JPN,4) 25-27 19-21
[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) bt Pui Yin Yip (HKG,23) 21-12 21-9

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt (6) Jin Ma (CHN)/ Jinhua Tang (CHN) 22-24 21-16 21-19

[QF] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) vs Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,33)

[QF] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella (INA)/ Vita Marissa (INA)

Saina scored dominating win over Hong Kong player in 30 mins ... In the first game Saina take early lead but Pui caught her at 9-all ... After that Saina lost only 3 points before winning this game ... Saina won last 8 points in a row from 13-12 ... In the second game Saina won 7 points in a row from 1-2 to take 8-2 lead which she kept increasing for comfortable win ... Next Saina is facing unseeded Japanese teenager in the quarters.

Huge win by new pairing of Ashwini and Pradnya Gadre against seeded Chinese pair ... After losing the first game in extra points they fought well to win next 2 games and won this match in 58 minutes ... In the first game our pair saved 4 game points but Chinese pair converted 5th game point ... In the second game Ashwini and Pradnya started with 3-0 early lead which they kept until the end to make it one game all ... In the decider both pairs exchanged early lead ... After that Indian pair take couple of points lead but from 13-16 Chinese pair caught with them after winning 3 points in a row ... Again our pair opened couple of points lead, 18-16 but this time also Chinese pair caught with them at 19-all ... Ashwini and Pradnya kept their nerves and won next 2 points for exciting win ... Next they r facing Indonesian pair who upset 3rd seed Thai pair in previous round.

Kashyap failed produce challenge to Jorgensen in this 37 mins match ... In both games Kashyap was close to Jorgensen at change over 10-11 and 8-11 but in both games Jorgensen was strong in later stage of the games.

Guru fought valiantly against WR #4 Tago but lost in very close match ... In first game both players were exchanging the leads ... From 17-19 Guru won next 3 points to gain a game point but Tago saved that ... After that Guru saved couple of game points in extra points ... Again Guru had 3 game points which Tago saved and then Tago converted his 3rd game point for winning this long game ... In the second game at change over Tago was leading 11-4 but after that Guru won next 7 points to make it 11-all ... Again Tago opened 3 points lead from 13-all ... This time also Guru fought back from 16-19 to make it 19-all ... Tago won next 2 points for a win in 59 minutes.

In latest ranking updates Saina climb to (equaling) her career best #2 rank ... Kashyap first-time enter into top-10 rank, he is on #10 ... Sindhu also climb one place to her career best #16.

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