Thursday, June 20, 2013

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

[R2] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,45) l Wei Feng Chong (MAS,12) 11-21 21-17 16-21
[R2] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Eriko Hirose (JPN,12) 16-21 21-16 21-9

[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l (6) Baek Choel Shin (KOR)/ Yeon Seong Yoo (KOR) 14-21 19-21
[R2] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Vita Marissa (INA) 10-21 18-21

[QF] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Lindaweni Fanetri (INA,13)

Saina scored hard fought win and enter into the quarters where she will face Indonesian Fanetri ... In the first game both players were exchanging lead till 14-all and after that Hirose opened lead for winning this game ... In the second game both players were neck to neck till 12-all after that Saina opened couple of points lead ... But from 16-15 Saina gave Hirose only one point before winning the game ... In the final Saina opened 8-2 early lead and kept increasing to complete win in 61 mins.

Sai failed to keep his winning momentum and lost against Malaysian Chong in three games ... After losing the first game easily Sai fought back in the second ... In the second game Sai was behind 1-5 but kept fight to caught Chong 12-all ... Then won 5 points in a row from 14-all and won the game losing 3 more points ... In the decider Chong opened 4-0 lead which extended to 10-4 but Sai fought back to make it 11-all ... After that Chong won 6 points in a row and then Sai tried to catch her but difference was enough for Chong to win the match.

In the doubles and mixed doubles our pairs lost in straight games.

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