Badminton News
At $200K Singapore Open 2013, (Superseries)

[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,3) l (1) Pengyu Du (CHN,38) 16-21 13-21
[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,44) l (6) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,9) 21-19 16-21 12-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) l (4) Kenichi Tago (JPN,6) 19-21 21-18 17-21
[R1] (7) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,10) l Takuma Ueda (JPN,16) 21-18 20-22 15-21
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,42) l Wing Ki Wong (HKG,14) 17-21 17-21
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,23) l Wei Feng Chong (MAS,12) 21-15 18-21 9-21
[R1] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) bt (2) Yun Hu (VIE,4) 21-9 21-10
[R1] (Q) Thulasi P. C. (IND,80) l Lindaweni Fanetri (INA,14) 23-21 16-21 16-21
[R1] (Q) Arundhati Pantawane (IND,61) l Petya Nedelcheva (BUL,26) 18-21 18-21
[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) bt Juan Gu (SIN,21) 21-14 23-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) bt Marcus Ellis (ENG)/ Paul Van Rietvelde (SCO) 27-25 21-17
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l Ji Wook Kang (KOR)/ Sang Joon Lee (KOR) 21-23 18-21
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) l Meng Yean Lee (MAS)/ Yin Loo Lim (MAS) 21-18 18-21 9-21
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Nitya Krishinda Maheswari (INA)/ Greysia Polii (INA) 18-21 23-21 16-21
[R1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) bt Songphon Anugritayawon (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA) 21-17 19-21 21-12
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (3) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA) 6-21 10-21

[R2] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) vs Wei Feng Chong (MAS,12)
[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) vs Eriko Hirose (JPN,12)

[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs (6) Baek Choel Shin (KOR)/ Yeon Seong Yoo (KOR)
[R2] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) vs Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Vita Marissa (INA)

I m really impressed with young Sai ... As qualifier he scored huge upset win over WR #4 Yun Hu in 30 minutes losing only 19 points ... He demolished his 2nd seed opponent with his quick game ... Saina also overcome challenge of veteran Singaporean Juan Gu in close 2nd game ... Earlier this month Juan Gu defeated Saina in their last meeting at Thailand Gold GP tournament ... So good victory for Saina.

Arun-Aparna scored upset win over higher ranked Thai pair in mixed doubles but Tarun-Ashwini failed to give any fight to 3rd seed Indonesian player ... Ashwini also lost with Pradnya in women's doubles ... Aparna-Siki started positively after winning the first game but after failing to win the close second game ended their challenge ... Pranaav-Akshay scored straight games victory after winning the first game in extra points ... Next they r facing 6th seed Korean.

Ajay, Srikanth and Thulasi stretched their higher ranked opponents to three games but failed to complete the win ... Anand Pawar also gave decent performance against top-seed Du ... Guru started well after winning the first game but after that Wei Feng Chong taking lead and Guru was trying to catch him ... In the second game he came near till 18-19 but after winning this game Wei Feng Chong didn't give any chance in the final game ... Kashyap's poor form continued in this tournament ... After winning the first game he failed to keep pressure on Ueda ... Ueda take lead and then Kashyap did catching game ... Kashyap saved 2 game points from 18-20 but Ueda converted 3rd game point ... In the decider Ueda take early lead and kept for upset win.