Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Badminton News

At $200K Yonex French Open 2013, Paris (Superseries)

[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,13) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 20-22 12-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) bt Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,35) 21-16 21-11
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,24) l Chen Yuekun (CHN,29) 9-21 14-21
[R1] (Q) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,41) l Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (DEN,17) 18-21 Retd.
[R1] (Q) Anand Pawar (IND,33) bt (Q) Thomas Rouxel (FRA,83) 21-9 24-22
[R1] (Q) K. Srikanth (IND,30) bt Wing Ki Wong (HKG,12) 21-14 17-21 21-10

[R1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,51) l Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,17) 17-21 21-16 14-21
[R1] P. V. Sindhu (IND,10) bt (6) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,6) 21-8 21-12
[R1] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Nichaon Jindapon (THA,15) 12-21 21-16 21-13

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Gebby Ristiyani Imawan (INA)/ Tiara Rosalia Nuraidah (INA) 18-21 21-13 17-21

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Robert Blair (SCO)/ Imogen Bankier (SCO) 17-21 21-19 12-21
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l (Q) Jacco Arends (NED)/ Selena Piek (NED) 13-21 16-21

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) vs (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1)
[R2] (Q) Anand Pawar (IND,33) vs Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,19)
[R2] (Q) K. Srikanth (IND,30) vs (6) Boonsak Ponsana (THA,8)
[R2] P. V. Sindhu (IND,10) vs Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,30)
[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs Yeon Ju Bae (KOR,11)

Ajay started with comfortable win against his Japanese opponent in 38 minutes ... Next he is facing WR #1 Chong Wei Lee, who defeated Kashyap in straight games in 37 minutes ... In the first game Kashyap was down 5-14 but he fought back to caught Lee at 20-all after saving 3 game points ... After that it was Lee show as he didn't gave much chance to Kashyap ... Guru failed to gave much challenge to his Chinese opponent Yuekun in 30 minutes match.

Arundhati gave fighting performance in her 45 minutes loss against top-20 Thai girl ... After losing the first game Arundhati fought back to won next game but failed to kept momentum in the decider.

Sindhu bounced back after bad Danish open and here she scored upset win over WR #6 and Danish open finalist Korean Ji Hyun Sung in 29 minutes ... In the first game Sindhu dominated from the start and won the final 9 points in row to won it comfortably ... In the second game Sindhu was 5-9 down but she caught Korean at 9-all ... And from 9-10 she allowed only 2 more points to Korean for this convincing win ... Sindhu is facing Scottish girl in the next round.

Jwala-Ashwini played first time after London Olympics and gave decent performance against Indonesian pair ... After losing the first game despite leading 17-13 they won the second game convincingly ... In the third game they were 7-10 down but fought back and caught Indonesian pair at 14-all ... Here Indonesian pair opened 4 points lead, 18-14 and that lead was enough for them for a win.

Saina started slowly against her top-15 Thai opponent and Nichaon take advantage of it and won the first game comfortably ... In the second game both players were neck to neck until 12-all and after that Saina take control and won it ... In the final game both players were neck to neck until 14-13 and then Saina won next 7 points for winning the match ... Another tricky match for Saina against WR #11 Korean Yeon Ju Bae, who defeated her in their last meeting at World championship in August.

Anand Pawar take advantage of weak draw and defeated lowly ranked Frenchman in straight games though he needed to save 3 game points in the second ... Next he is facing top-20 Thai opponent Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk.

Srikanth continued Indian dominance over Hong Kong's WR #12 Wing Ki Wong ... He defeated Wong in three games after 47 minutes ... Srikanth won the first game from 10-12 with his attacking game ... In the second game Wong opened early lead which Srikanth failed to overcome but in decider Srikanth started with bang ... He won first 9 points to opened 9-0 lead which sealed the match ... Next he is facing top-8 Thai Boonsak Ponsana.

Sai got injured and retired from the match after losing the first game.

In mixed doubles our both pair lost in contrasting style the first round ... Ashwini-Tarun lost in three games against Scottish pair but Jwala-Manu lost in straight games against Dutch qualifiers.

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