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At $700K Djarum Indonesia Open 2013, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

[Q1] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,41) bt Dong Keun Lee (KOR,51) 21-15 19-21 21-11
[Q1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,55) bt Sukamta Evert (INA,150) 21-11 21-16
[Q1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,64) l (2) Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,39) 21-13 14-21 21-17
[Q1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,75) l Maziyyah Nadhir (INA,73) 21-23 19-21

[Q1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l Wijaya Rendra (INA)/ Rian Sukmawan (INA) 19-21 15-21
[Q1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l Ronald Alexander (INA)/ Selvanus Geh (INA) 19-21 18-21
[Q1] (3) Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) bt Nurbeta Kwanrico (INA)/ Deariska Putri Medita (INA) 21-9 21-9
[Q1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) l (4) Ririn Amelia (INA)/ Anggia Shitta Awanda (INA) 19-21 20-22

[Q1] Mohd Razif Abdul Latif (MAS)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) l Adi Pratama (INA)/ Nadya Melati (INA) 11-21 21-12 19-21
[Q1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l Patiphat Chalardchaleam (THA)/ Jongkonphan Kittiharakul (THA) 16-21 21-16 16-21

[Q2] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,41) l Riyanto Subagja (INA,71) 8-21 12-21
[Q2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,55) bt Kento Momota (JPN,49) 15-21 21-3 22-20

[Q2] (3) Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) bt Rodjana Chuthabunditkul (THA)/ Jongkonphan Kittiharakul (THA) 18-21 22-20 24-22

[R1] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,55) vs Taufik Hidayat (INA,35)
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,10) vs Sho Sasaki (JPN,19)
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,37) vs Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (DEN,15)
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,28) vs (Q) Riyanto Subagja (INA,71)
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,25) vs Andre Kurniwan Tedjono (INA,53)
[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) bt Lindaweni Fanetri (INA,14) 21-17 27-29 21-13

[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Mingtian Fu (SIN)/ Lei Yao (SIN)
[R1] (Q) Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) vs Gebby Ristiyani Imawan (INA)/ Tiara Rosalia Nuraidah (INA)
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Vita Marissa (INA) 21-18 14-21 25-23

[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) vs Sayaka Takahashi (JPN,24)

[R2] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (7) Robert Mateusiak (POL)/ Nadiezda Zieba (POL)

As expected big Indian contingent but surprisingly Sindhu is missing this event ... Hopefully nothing serious injury scare.

Only Sai Praneeth and pair of Aparna Balan-Siki Reddy qualify for the main-draw ... After losing the first game Sai dominated the second, he won 14 points in a row from 7-3 for winning this game ... In the final game also Sai was leading from the start but lost his concentration from 19-14 and gave chance to Momota ... Momota caught with him at 20-all but Sai converted 3rd match point.

Aparna Balan-Siki Reddy also scored hard fought win ... All three games were closely contested but Aparna-Siki lost the first game ... In the second game they had early lead which they conceded but Aparna-Siki saved a match point before winning this game ... In the final game also Aparna-Siki take early game but each time their Thai opponents fought back ... Our pair converted sixth match point for exciting win.

Other hand poor outing for our men's doubles pairs.
In main-draw,
Sai is facing local legend Taufik Hidayat, who already announced his retirement after this tournament ... I m hoping his match against Sai will be his last professional match ... :)

Saina had tough first round match against WR #14 and Indonesian top singles player Lindaweni Fanetri ... In the first game Saina take control from 9-all after opening 4 points lead which she kept till end for winning this game ... In the second game both players exchanged couple of point lead but Saina opened crucial 2 points lead at 15-all ... Saina was leading 20-18 but she wasted 6 match points in this long game which Fanetri won converting 4th game point in extra points ... In the final game Saina started with 5-0 lead which she kept increasing and won the match after 74 minutes ... Next she is facing little unknown Japanese opponent Sayaka Takahashi.

In MXD Tarun-Ashwini also had close match against local pair ... In the first game after 6-3 lead Tarun-Ashwini kept this lead throughout the game for winning this ... In the second game Indonesian pair won 10 points in a row from 3-7 down to take control which they won comfortably ... In the final game Our pair take early couple of points lead but Indonesian pair caught them at 12-all ... Then Indonesian pair take 2 points lead at 17-15 but Tarun-Ashwini managed to make it 18-all ... Tarun-Ashwini saved a match point at 19-10 before converting 4th match in extra points ... Next they r facing 7th seed Polish pair.