Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Badminton News

At $350K Hong Kong Open 2013, Kowloon (Superseries)

[R1] K. Srikanth (IND,28) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 18-21 14-21
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,11) l Zhengming Wang (CHN,9) 14-21 10-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,26) bt (7) Tien Minh Nguyen (VIE,7) 21-7 21-12
[R1] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt Bellaetrix Manuputty (INA,30) 21-14 21-16
[R1] P. V. Sindhu (IND,10) l (2) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,2) 16-21 17-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l (1) Mohammad Ahsan (INA)/ Hendra Setiawan (INA) 18-21 19-21
[R1] (Q) Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l Vladimir Ivanov (RUS)/ Ivan Sozonov (RUS) 9-21 15-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (7) Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Vita Marissa (INA) 19-21 21-19 17-21

[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,26) vs Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,15)
[R2] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) vs Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,13)

Though losses were expected still disappointing outing for our players, who failed to stretch their respective opponents ... Sindhu gave decent fight to WR #2 Ratchanok Intanon in 39 minutes match.

Saina scored comfortable win in her 34 minutes match ... Next she is facing top-15 Thai opponent Porntip Buranaprasertsuk.

Ashwini-Tarun gave fighting performance against 7th seed Indonesian pair ... After losing the first game Tarun-Ashwini fought back to won the second ... But Indonesian pair proved better in the third.

In the last match of the day Ajay faced WR #7 Tien Minh Nguyen and Ajay continued Indian dominance over him ... In recent matches Tien Minh Nguyen lost too many matches against Indian opponents and that repeated in this match ... Ajay scored very dominating win over Tien Minh Nguyen losing only 19 points in 25 minutes ... Next he is facing Indonesian Sony Dwi Kuncoro.

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