Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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

[R1] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,55) bt Taufik Hidayat (INA,35) 15-21 21-12 21-17
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,10) l Sho Sasaki (JPN,19) 7-21 8-21
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,37) bt Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (DEN,15) 19-21 21-14 21-15
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,28) bt (Q) Riyanto Subagja (INA,71) 22-20 8-21 21-12
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,25) bt Andre Kurniwan Tedjono (INA,53) 22-20 21-16

[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Mingtian Fu (SIN)/ Lei Yao (SIN) 21-16 15-21 22-20
[R1] (Q) Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) l Gebby Ristiyani Imawan (INA)/ Tiara Rosalia Nuraidah (INA) 12-21 17-21

[R2] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,55) vs (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1)
[R2] Sourabh Varma (IND,37) vs (3) Pengyu Du (CHN,3)
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,28) vs (4) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,5)
[R2] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,25) vs (Q) Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,39)

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Anneke Feinya Agustin (INA)/ Della Destiara Haris (INA)

Sai scored comeback win over Indonesian legend Taufik Hidayat in his last competitive match as this was his last tournament ... After losing the first game Sai dominated the second before winning the third winning crucial points ... Terrific win for Sai.

Sourabh also scored big win over top-15 Danish player Vittinghus in three games ... He also lost the first game before winning next two games comfortably ... Next matches r tough for Sai and Sourabh against WR #1 and WR #3 respectively.

Shocking one-sided loss of Kashyap in 31 minutes, where he managed to win only 15 points in the match.

Ajay recovered well in the final game after losing the second game easily against local qualifier ... Next he is facing Indonesia's top player and WR #5 Sony Dwi Kuncoro ... Guru also scored good win against former top-20 Indonesian player Tedjono in straight games ... Next he is facing Japanese qualifier, who scored upset win over 7th seed Danish player.

Ashwini-Pradnya scored tight win over experienced Singaporean pair ... In the final game Singaporean pair were leading by 2-3 points but our pair caught them at 14-all from 11-14 ... After that our pair had 19-16 lead but this time Singaporean pair made it 19-all ... Ashwini-Pradnya played kept their focus and converted 2nd match point ... Next they r facing local pair, who upset 6th seed Thai pair.

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