Thursday, April 24, 2014

Badminton News

At $200K Asia Championships 2014, Gimcheon, Korea

[R2] R M V Gurusaidutt (IND,40) bt Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,59) 17-21 21-13 21-19
[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,19) l Hsu Jen Hao (TPE,27) 23-25 17-21
[R2] P V Sindhu (IND,10) bt Eriko Hirose (JPN,16) 14-21 21-13 21-18
[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt (3) Duanganong Aroonkesorn (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA) 21-11 21-18

[QF] R M V Gurusaidutt (IND,40) vs (Q) Kai Liu (CHN,259)
[QF] P V Sindhu (IND,10) vs Busanan Ongbumrungpan (THA,18)
[QF] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Amelia Alicia Anscelly (MAS)/ Fie Cho Soong (MAS)

Sindhu score huge win of her career against experienced Japanese Eriko Hirose in 73 mins match ... In their all three previous meeting Hirose defeated Sindhu and in this match also Hirose started in same fashion as she won the first game ... Sindhu fought back and won the second game comfortably and kept that momentum for winning the third game ... Next in the quarters she is facing Thai girl Busanan.

Guru also joins Sindhu in the quarters ... He also needed fightback after losing the first game ... Next he is facing tricky opponent in Chinese qualifier Kai Liu ... Kashyap wasn't so lucky and lost in straight games against another Taipei player.

Ashwini-Jwala score biggest victory after Jwala's comeback ... They scored convincing win over 3rd seed and WR #12 Thai pair ... In the quarters they r facing unseeded Malaysian pair.

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