Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Badminton News

At Li Ning BWF Thomas & Uber Cups 2014, New

Thomas Cup - Group C
India bt Germany 3-2
[MS1] Srikanth K. (IND,18) bt Marc Zwiebler (GER,13) 21-18 18-21 21-18
[MD1] Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND)/ Manu Attri (IND) l Michael Fuchs (GER)/ Johannes Schoettler (GER) 15-21 6-21
[MS2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) l Dieter Domke (GER,59) 21-23 21-14 14-21
[MD2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND) bt Peter Kaesbauer (GER)/ Josche Zurwonne (GER) 21-9 17-21 21-19
[MS3] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,30) bt Lukas Schmidt (GER,80) 21-14 19-21 21-19

This was crucial match for both teams to avoid wooden spoon in the group ... Srikanth started with upset win over top-10 Marc Zwiebler but in 3rd match Kashyap lost against lowly ranked Dieter Domke ... This put extra pressure on our doubles team and Guru ... Akshay-Pranaav started well after winning the first game comfortably but after that German pair fought back and won the second game ... Akshay-Pranaav pulled of tight third game to make score 2-all in the tie ... In the final match Guru also started well after winning first game comfortably ... But after that Guru take extra pressure and choked up to lose the second game ... In the final game he kept his cool at crucial points and completed victory for Indians.

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