Thursday, April 25, 2013

Badminton News
At $200K India Open, New Delhi (Super Series)

[R2] (Q) Prannoy H. S. (IND,72) bt Taufik Hidayat (INA,26) 26-24 21-9
[R2] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,35) bt K. Srikanth (IND,64) 21-12 21-16
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) bt Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,28) 21-15 21-12
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,55) bt (3) Yun Hu (HKG,5) 21-15 15-21 21-10
[R2] Sourabh Varma (IND,38) l (6) Kenichi Tago (JPN,8) 21-19 16-21 14-21
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,60) bt (Q) Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin (MAS,81) 16-21 29-27 21-16

[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) l Yui Hashimoto (JPN,44) 21-13 12-21 20-22
[R2] (8) Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) bt Sun Yu (CHN,83) 19-21 21-19 21-15
[R2] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,95) bt Neha Pandit (IND,150) 21-18 22-20
[R2] (Q) Saili Rane (IND,144) l (5) Yeon Ju Bae (KOR,14) 4-21 10-21

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l (8) Xiaolong Liu (CHN)/ Zihan Qiu (CHN) 8-21 13-21
[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l (3) Sung Hyun Ko (KOR)/ Yong Dae Lee (KOR) 17-21 12-21
[R2] (Q) Surender Rathee (IND)/ Neeraj Vashist (IND) l (2) Kien Keat Koo (KOR)/ Boon Heong Tan (KOR) 13-21 8-21
[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (1) Misaki Matsutomo (JPN)/ Ayaka Takahashi (JPN) 14-21 22-20 12-21

[R2] Abhinav Prakash (IND)/ Kristi Das (IND) l (1) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA) 4-21 10-21
[R2] Gaurav Venkat (IND)/ Juhi Dewangan (IND) l Baek Choel Shin (KOR)/ Ye Na Jang (KOR) 9-21 12-21
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) l (5) Robert Mateusiak (POL)/ Nadiezda Zieba (POL) 16-21 17-21
[R2] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l (4) Sudket Prapakamol (THA)/ Saralee Thoungthongkam (THA) 17-21 10-21

[QF] (Q) Prannoy H. S. (IND,76) vs (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1)
[QF] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,33) vs (7) Boonsak Ponsana (THA,11)
[QF] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) vs Anand Pawar (IND,53)
[QF] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,62) vs (6) Kenichi Tago (JPN,9)

[QF] (8) Sindhu P. V. (IND,15) vs Yui Hashimoto (JPN,46)
[QF] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,92) vs (3) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,6)

In shocking result top-seed Saina lost against her below-40 lower ranked Japanese player Yui Hashimoto in three games ... Saina dominated the first game and won it easily but from the second game Saina struggled ... From 5-all Yui take control of the game and won this losing only 7 more points ... In the final game both players were exchanging lead throughout the game ... From 16-all Saina opened couple of points lead and she had 3 match points at 20-17 ... Saina failed to convert all 3 match points ... She lost the match losing 5 points in a row ... Yui is facing Sindhu in the quarters.

Happy to see other Indians taking advantage of home advantage ... Anand Pawar scored his first top-5 win in his career beating WR #5 Hong Kong's Yun Hu ... In the first game Anand take control after winning 5 points in a row from 10-12 ... From 15-14 again he won 5 points in a row and then converted 2nd game point for winning the first game ... In the second game from 5-all Yun Hu take control and won it comfortably ... In the final game Anand take 4-0 early lead which he kept increasing and won this game losing mere 10 points for excellent victory.

Prannoy also scored huge win over Taufik Hidayat in straight games ... In the first game he take early couple of points lead but Taufik caught with him at 16-all ... Prannoy saved 3 game points before converting his 3rd game point for winning this game ... He dominated second game ... After taking 10-4 lead he never lost the control over the match.

Sai Praneeth needed to dig deep before completing victory over Malaysian qualifier ... After losing the first game Sai was leading 20-14 but Iskandar saved all 6 game points, 20-all ... Sai saved 5 match points before converting 8th game point for winning this second game ... In the final game Sai started with 3-0 which he extended to 8-3 and kept that lead throughout the game and won it comfortably converting 2nd match point.

Sindhu scored her another comeback victory over her Chinese opponent after losing the first game ... In the second game Sindhu was 13-18 down but fought back winning next 6 points to take 19-18 lead and won it ... In the final game Sun Yu take early lead but Sindhu caught with her at 9-all ... And from 15-14 Sindhu won next 5 points before converting 2nd match point.

Ajay Jayaram also scored straight games victory over higer ranked Indonesian Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka.Guru scored comfortable win over K. Srikanth ... Arundhati also scored straight games victory over Neha ... Sourabh started well with winning the first game against Tago but failed to keep momentum and lost next two games ... Bae proved too strong to young Saili Rane.

Ashwini and Pradnya gave fighting performance against WR #2 Japanese pair ... After winning the first game they were down 17-20, Ashwini and Pradnya saved 3 game points but Japanese pair converted 4th game point ... In the final game Japanese pair opened 9-2 lead and won it comfortably.

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