Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Badminton News

At $400K Yonex Denmark Open 2013, Odense (Superseries)

[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,13) bt Daren Liew (MAS,16) 11-4 Retd
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) bt (8) Boonsak Ponsana (THA,8) 21-11 21-14
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24) bt Yun Hu (HKG,11) 21-17 21-14
[R1] (Q) Anand Pawar (IND,33) l (2) Long Chen (CHN,2) 11-21 6-21

[R1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,53) l (1) Xuerui Li (CHN,1) 17-21 15-21
[R1] P. V. Sindhu (IND,10) l Eriko Hirose (JPN,18) 19-21 20-22
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Stefani Stoeva (BUL,64) 21-16 21-12

[R1] Sumeet Reddy (IND)/ Manu Attri (IND) l Michael Fuchs (GER)/ Johannes Schoettler (GER) 14-21 14-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (Q) Yong Dae Lee (KOR)/ Seung Chan Shin (KOR) 14-21 13-21

[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,13) vs (5) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,5)
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) vs Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24)

[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,30)

Ajay scored dominating win over top-8 Thai Boonsak Ponsana in 32 minutes ... In this match Ajay didn't give chance of settling for Boonsak and controlled it from the start ... Guru also joined him with win over former top-5 Yun Hu in 39 minutes ... In this match also Guru didn't look under pressure and played to his strength for a win in straight games ... Kashyap's opponeet Malaysian Daren Liew retired due to injury after first break ... Saina also scored comfortable win over her Bulgarian opponent in 26 minutes ... Arundhati gacve decent fight to WR #1 Xuerui Li in their match ... Other hand Sindhu lost another close match against experienced Hirose in 50 minutes ... Both games were close, in the second game Sindhu had a game point also which she failed to convert ... So this was Sindhu's 3rd loss against Hirose in three matches ... Anand also lost one-sided match against Long Chen.

In the second round interesting match between Ajay and Guru ... Saina having winnable match against Scottish player ... Kashyap is facing local top-5 player Jan O Jorgensen.

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