Saturday, November 30, 2013

Badminton News

At $120K Macau Open 2013 (GP Gold), Macau City

[SF] (1) Sindhu P. V. (IND,11) bt (Q) Qin Jinjing (CHN,780) 21-13 18-21 21-19

[F] (1) Sindhu P. V. (IND,11) vs (7) Li Michelle (CAN,30)

In the first game Qin take 6-3 early lead but Sindhu caught her at 7-all ... From 13-12 Sindhu gave only a single point to Qin and won the first game comfortably ... In the second game Sindhu started with 4-0 lead but Quin won next 4 points to made it 4-all ... Sindhu opened 3 points lead at 8-5 and kept couple of points lead till 16-14 ... Qin won next 5 points and first time take lead in this game 19-16 ... Then Qin kept that lead and converted 2nd game point for winning this game ... The decider turned to be dog fight as both players continuously changing lead ... Qin take 4-0 lead but Sindhu won next 6 points to take 6-4 lead ... Qin caught her at 7-all and take 9-7 lead ... From 9-10 down Qin won next 4 points to lead 13-10 but again Sindhu caught her at 13-all ... Qin again opened lead 15-13 then 16-14 ... This time also Sindhu fought back winning next 3 points, 17-16 ... Both were neck to neck till 19-all and then Sindhu won last 2 points for very hard fought win in 68 minutes ... Surprisingly tough match for Sindhu against this 17 yrs old Chinese qualifier ... In the final Sindhu is facing Canadian Li Michelle, who upset 3rd seed Pui Yin Yip.

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