Thursday, June 13, 2013

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

[R2] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,55) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 18-21 12-21
[R2] Sourabh Varma (IND,37) l (3) Pengyu Du (CHN,3) 16-21 6-21
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,28) bt (4) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,5) 22-20 21-12
[R2] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,23) bt (Q) Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,39) 21-12 9-21 21-19
[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) bt Sayaka Takahashi (JPN,24) 21-13 21-19

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Anneke Feinya Agustin (INA)/ Della Destiara Haris (INA) 13-21 19-21
[R2] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (7) Robert Mateusiak (POL)/ Nadiezda Zieba (POL) 14-21 21-17 13-21

[QF] Ajay Jayaram (IND,28) vs Marc Zwiebler (GER,22)
[QF] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,23) vs Tommy Sugiarto (INA,20)
[QF] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) vs Carolina Marin (ESP,27)

Guru and Saina in quarter finals with contrasting victories ... After winning the first game easily Guru lost the second game against Kazumasa cheaply ... In decider Kazumasa 7 points in a row from 8-10 to lead 15-10 ... Guru fought back winning 5 points in a row from 12-16 and then converted 3rd match point ... Next he is facing local player, Tommy Sugiarto.

Saina started confidently and won the first game comfortably ... In the second game Sayaka opened lead of 4 points from 11-all ... Saina managed to catch her at 18-all and then won 3 points in a row from 18-19 and completed straight games win ... Next she is facing surprising quarter-finalist Spanish girl Carolina Marin.

Ajay scored cracking win over local favorite and WR #5 Sony Dwi Kuncoro in straight games ... In the first game whenever Ajay opened 3/4 points lead Sony was catching him ... Ajay had game points at 20-18 but Sony saved both ... Again Ajay created 3rd game point which he converted ... After winning the first game in extra points Ajay dominated the second from the start ... He was leading 7-2 one time but Sony reduced it to 11-12 ... After that Ajay gave him only one more point and won the game easily for 38 mins victory ... Next he is facing unseeded German Zwiebler for place in the semis.

Sai gave fighting performance against WR #1 Lee ... In the first game Lee take 10-6 lead but Sai fought back to made it 11-all ... From 14-all Lee take lead but after 15-20 down Sai saved 3 game points before losing the game ... In the second game Lee take early 7-3 lead which he kept increasing but Sai managed decent score line in his 38 mins loss.

Sourabh gave fighting performance in the first game against Chinese Pengyu Du but Du proved too strong him in the second ... Ashwini lost her women's doubles and mixed doubles matches with her respective partners but in mixed doubles she and Tarun managed to stretch seeded Polish pair.

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