Thursday, May 22, 2014

Badminton News

At Li Ning BWF Thomas & Uber Cups 2014, New Delhi

Uber Cup - Quarter Finals
India bt Indonesia 3-0
[WS1] Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Lidaweni Fanetri (INA,23) 21-17 21-10
[WS2] P V Sindhu (IND,11) bt Bellaetrix Manuputty (INA,24) 21-16 10-21 25-23
[WD1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Greysia Poli (INA)/ Nitya Krishinda Maheswari (INA) 21-18 21-18

Korea bt Thailand 3-1
Japan bt Denmark 3-0
China bt England 3-0

Indian women enter into their first semi-final of Uber cup beating Indonesian women ... In the semis they r facing tricky Japanese women, as our players struggle against them ... Today Saina gave terrific start beating Lidaweni Fanetri comfortably though in their last meeting Lidaweni defeated her ... Sindhu also lost against Bellaetrix in their last meeting but here Sindhu started confidently winning the first game ... From the second game Bellaetrix changed tactics as she attacked more on Sindhu's serve and played long rallies ... That really helped as Bellaetrix won the second game comfortably ... In the final game Bellaetrix had momentum and she take 5-2 lead but after that Sindhu recovered and take 10-7 lead from 5-7 down ... Bellaetrix made it 10-all but Sindhu again take 13-10 and 15-12 lead ... This time also Bellaetrix caught her at 15-all ... Sindhu again take 19-17 lead but Bellaetrix got her 1st match point winning next 3 points ... Sindhu saved that but Bellaetrix got another at 21-20 ... This time also Sindhu saved it and after that Sindhu wasted 2 match points before converting third match point for really important win after 84 minutes ... In third match our in-form pair Jwala-Ashwini played another excellent match ... They defeated WR #9 Indonesian pair of Greysia Poli and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari in straight game for winning this tie for India.

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