Badminton News

At $400K Yonex All England Open 2014, Birmingham

[Q1] Saili Rane (IND,71) l Chloe Magee (IRL,44) 21-23 20-22
[Q1] (1) Anand Pawar (IND,34) l Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA,58) 21-18 13-21 19-21

[Q1] (2) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bye
[Q1] Abhishek Ahlawat (IND)/ Kristi Das (IND) l Gideon Markus Fernaldi (INA)/ Rizki Amelia Pradipta (INA) 8-21 8-21

[Q2] (2) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Jin Ma (CHN)/ Yuanting Tang (CHN) 21-14 15-21 17-21

[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,21) vs Kento Momota (JPN,15)
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,18) vs (5) Kenichi Tago (JPN,5)
[R1] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) vs Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,20)
[R1] P.V. Sindhu (IND,9) vs Sun Yu (CHN,33)

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (4) Joachim Fischer Nielsen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN)

Overall tough draw for Indians.

In the qualifying disappointing performance by Anand and Jwala-Ashwini in their respective matches ... Other hand Sayali gave creditable fight to her top-50 opponent.