Badminton News
At $200K Badminton Asia Championships 2013, Chinese Taipei

[Q1] Sayali Gokhale (IND,119) bt Kavindi Ishandika Sirimannage (SRI,353) 21-16 21-14
[Q2] Sayali Gokhale (IND,119) l (4) Ya Ching Hsu (TPE,123) 23-21 10-21 10-21

[R1] (4) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) bt Ji Hoon Hong (KOR,106) 18-21 21-15 22-20
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,59) bt Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed (BAN,229) 21-10 21-12
[R1] Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) bt Tsz Ka Chan (HKG,31) 21-18 21-19

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Chia Pin Lu (TPE) 17-21 17-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l Bao Duc Duong (VIE)/ Hoang Nam Nguyen (VIE) 24-22 19-21 16-21
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l (7) Xiaolong Liu (CHN)/ Zihan Qiu (CHN) 18-21 19-21
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Pei Rong Wang (TPE)/ Kuo YU Wen (TPE) 21-12 30-29
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) l Hsiao Huan Chen (TPE)/ Chia Wen Lai (TPE) 16-21 17-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Liu Yi (SIN)/ Lei Yao (SIN) 14-21 21-16 18-21
[R1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l Sheng Mu Lee (TPE)/ Wen Hsing Cheng (TPE) 16-21 21-14 14-21
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) l (4) Markis Kido (INA)/ Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth (INA) 10-21 12-21

[R2] (4) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) vs Han Chou Chu (TPE,189)
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,59) vs (6) Zhengming Wang (CHN,9)
[R2] Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) vs (3) Shixian Wang (CHN,6)

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Lok Yan Poon (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG)

After the first round only expected names remain in the draw ... Kashyap had tough time against Korean Hong ... In the third game he won 4 points in a row from 16-19 and then converted 2nd match point ... Sai scored comfortable win and Sindhu also scored straight games win ... Pradnya and Ashwini needed extra point to win the second game.