Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Badminton News

At $250K Yonex Japan Open 2014, Tokyo (Superseries)

[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,13) l Marc Zwiebler (GER,12) 21-18 13-21 8-21
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,36) bt Nan Wei (HKG,29) 19-21 21-14 22-20
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) l (Q) Riichi Takeshita (JPN,116) 21-15 23-25 18-21
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,30) l Takuma Ueda (JPN,27) 10-21 21-15 13-21
[R1] Tanvi Lad (IND,59) bt Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,18) 13-21 21-11 21-17

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Ayane Kurihara (JPN)/ Naru Shinoya (JPN) 21-18 21-16
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Peter Kaesbauer (GER)/ Isabel Herttrich (GER) 18-21 21-18 21-17

[R2] Tanvi Lad (IND,59) vs Xin (F) Liu (CHN,35)

[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (6) Kyung Eun Jung (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR)
[R2] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN)/ Misaki Matsutomo (JPN)

Ashwini is having excellent start in this Superseries tournament ... In the morning in mixed doubles she defeated German pair after losing the first game with Tarun ... Next they r facing local pair ... In afternoon she and Jwala convincingly defeated local pair in straight games .... Next they r facing 6th seed Korean pair.

Sourabh score comeback win over top-30 Hong Kong player Wei in tight match ... After losing the first game Sourabh dominated to win the second game ... In the decider both players exchanged leads which Sourabh won it in extra points ... Next he is mostly facing Japanese top player WR #4 Kenichi Tago.

Tanvi Lad score her first win over top-20 player when she defeated Scottish Kirsty Gilmour ... Tanvi lost first game easily but she fought back to win the second game after dominating the play ... In the final game also Tanvi kept that momentum for biggest win for her ... Next she is having tough match against top-40 Chinese player.

Kashyap lose against Japanese qualifier Riichi Takeshita ... Kashyap missed few match points in the second game after winning the first game ... Takeshita take full advantage of missed chances by Kashyap and completed upset win after winning the final game ... Srikanth fails to repeat Thomas cup performance against Marc Zwiebler ... He lost convincingly after winning the first game ... Guru play entertaining match against Japanese Thomas cup hero Takuma Ueda ... After losing the first game Guru won next game but Ueda was better player in the final game.

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