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At $120K Malaysia Grand Prix Gold 2013, Kuala Lumpur

[Q1] Rituparna Das (IND,313) l (1) Aya Ohori (JPN,143) 22-20 7-21 21-23
[Q1] Ruthvika Shivani G. (IND,246) l Ayumi Mine (JPN,224) 16-21 18-21

[Q1] Guru Prasad D. (IND)/ Vineeth Manuel (IND) l Mohd Razif Abdul Latif (MAS)/ Muhammad Hafiz Hashim (MAS) 7-21 12-21

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,190) bt Wei Jian Al (MAS,223) 21-10 21-9
[R1] Abhimanyu Singh (IND,196) l Yan Kit Chan (HKG,67) w/o
[R1] Oscar Bansal (IND,251) l Beryno Jiann Tze Wong (MAS,157) 21-7 16-21 15-21
[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,63) bt Sung Min Park (KOR,84) 21-13 21-11
[R1] (11) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,33) bt Chao Huang (SIN,191) 21-19 14-21 21-17
[R1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,76) bt (5) Tommy Sugiarto (INA,18) w/o

[R1] Thulasi P. C. (IND,93) l Xue Yao (CHN,63) 18-21 5-21
[R1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,92) l Maria Febe Kusumastuti (INA,51) 21-13 10-21 14-21
[R1] Tanvi Lad (IND,103) l Kana Ito (JPN,100) 8-21 14-21
[R1] (1) Sindhu P. V. (IND,15) bt Jiayuan Chen (SIN,48) 21-13 19-21 21-13

[R1] Sanjeeth S. (IND)/ Jagadish Yadav (IND) l Hardi Hardianto (INA)/ Agripinna Prima Rahmanto Putra (INA) 16-21 17-21

[R2] Srikanth K. (IND,63) bt (14) Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA,50) 21-9 21-19
[R2] (11) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,33) bt Giap Chin Goh (MAS,144) 21-8 21-9
[R2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,76) l Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin (MAS,81) 21-15 14-21 15-21
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,190) bt (4) Wei Feng Chong (MAS,12) 21-15 16-21 21-19

[R3] (11) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,33) vs Riichi Takeshita (JPN,70)
[R3] Srikanth K. (IND,63) vs (3) Daren Liew (MAS,13)
[R3] Sameer Verma (IND,190) vs Yan Kit Chan (HKG,67)

[R2] (1) Sindhu P. V. (IND,15) vs Ngan Yi Cheung (HKG,102)

Sindhu is top-seed in this GP Gold tournament and she felt pressure in her first match ... Jiayuan Chen stretched her to three games.

In men's young 18 yrs old Sameer Verma scored sensational win over WR #12 Malaysian Wei Feng Chong in 55 minutes ... In the first game from 12-all Sameer take lead and won the game losing 3 points more ... In the second game from 5-all Sameer take lead ... He was leading 14-10 but from 14-16 Chong won next 7 points for winning this game ... In the decider Sameer take 8-4 lead which he kept until the end ... Chong tried fightback from 10-16 winning 4 points and from 14-20 he saved 5 match points but Sameer converted 6th match point for his biggest win ... Also young Srikanth continued with his promising performance ... He scored back to back solid wins against two experienced Asian players ... Guru is also in the third round.