Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Badminton News

At $250K BCA Indonesian Open 2014, Jakarta (Superseries)

[Q1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,43) bt Henri Hurskainen (SWE,40) 21-13 21-19
[Q1] (3) Sourabh Varma (IND,35) bt Sattawat Pongnairat (USA,66) 21-17 13-21 24-22

[Q2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,43) l Alamsyah Yunus (INA,112) 20-22 20-22
[Q2] (3) Sourabh Varma (IND,35) l Wisnu Yuli Prasetyo (INA,127) 13-21 21-19 16-21

[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,23) vs (Q) Chen Yuekun (CHN,37)
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,20) vs (4) Kenichi Tago (JPN,4)
[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,9)
[R1] P V Sindhu (IND,10) vs (3) Yihan Wang (CHN,3)

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth (INA)/ Rizki Amelia Pradipta (INA)

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Peter Kaesbauer (GER)/ Isabel Herttrich (GER) 21-19 14-21 19-21

Saina and Sindhu r back on tour with Indonesian superseries but in the first round both having really tricky matches against top-10 player ... Saina is facing WR #9 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk and Sindhu is facing WR #3 Yihan Wang ... In men's also Srikanth is facing top-40 Chinese qualifier and Kashyap is facing WR #4 Kenichi Tago.

In qualifying Prannoy and Sourabh started with contrasting wins but both lost their respective matches against below 100 Indonesian opponents in the final qualifying.

Ashwini-Tarun lose close match after winning the first game ... They had opportunity in the third which they failed to convert.

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