Saturday, August 10, 2013

Badminton News

At BWF World Championships 2013, Guangzhou, China


[SF] (10) P. V. Sindhu (IND,12) l (4) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,3) 10-21 13-21

Ratchanok scored dominating win over Sindhu in 36 minutes ... In the first game from 4-3 Ratchanok take control ... She opened 11-4 lead winning 5 points in a row and won it comfortably ... In the second game Ratchanok started with 7-0 lead and Sindhu never recovered from this early setback and lost this game easily.

Still very creditable performance by Sindhu in her first World championship ... She become only 4th Indian player to win Bronze medal at World championship ... Before her Prakash Padukone won the bronze in 1983 and then Ashwini Ponnappa-Jwala Gutta won bronze in women's doubles in 2010 World championship.

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