Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Badminton News

Badminton News
At $500K Maybank Malaysia Open 2014, Kuala Lumpur (Superseries Premier)

[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,32) l Wang Zhengming (CHN,9) 12-21 11-21
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,16) bt Marc Zwiebler (GER,12) 21-19 21-13
[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,47) bt Hu Yun (HKG,11) 21-17 18-21 21-16
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V (IND,28) l Eric Pang (NED,31) 18-21 21-11 21-23

[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Desi Hera (INA,38) 21-10 21-16
[R1] P.V. Sindhu (IND,11) bt Fanetri Lindaweni (INA,20) 21-17 21-18

[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,16) vs (3) Jan O Jorgensen(DEN,3)
[R2] Srikanth K. (IND,47) vs Wan Ho Son (KOR,21)
[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs Xue Yao (CHN,30)
[R2] P.V. Sindhu (IND,11) vs (6) Ju Bae Yeon (KOR,6)

Winning start for Saina and Sindhu in contrasting style ... Saina won her match comfortably against her Indonesian opponent Hera in 36 minutes ... Next she is having her first Chinese test against Xue Yao ... Other hand Sindhu won two tight games against experienced Indonesian Fanetri Lindaweni in 43 minutes ... Next she is facing in-form WR #6 Korean Ju Bae Yeon.

In men's Guru had disappointing loss ... After losing the first game Guru made strong comeback winning the second game comfortably ... But he conceded lead in the third game and then missed 3 match points, 2 at 20-18 and 1 at 21-20 ... Pang converted 1st match point for win in 54 minutes.

Kashyap scored straight game victory over his higher ranked German opponent Zwiebler in 35 minutes ... After winning close first game Kashyap dominated the second ... Next he is facing WR #3 Danish player Jan O Jorgensen.

Young Srikanth scored big upset when he defeated WR #11 Hu Yun in 63 minutes ... In the first game Srikanth take early 2/3 points lead but Yun caught him at 17-all ... Srikanth won next 4 points for winning this game ... In the second game both players exchanged leads but this time from 18-all Yun won next 3 points to made one game all ... In the final game Srikanth started with 7-0 but Yun crawled back and caught him at 14-all ... From 15-16 Srikanth won next 6 points and completed exciting victory ... Next he is facing Korean Wan Ho Son.

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