Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Badminton News

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

[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,23) l (Q) Chen Yuekun (CHN,37) 12-21 21-17 16-21
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,20) l (4) Kenichi Tago (JPN,4) 21-19 8-21 22-24
[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,9) 21-15 21-10
[R1] P V Sindhu (IND,10) l (3) Yihan Wang (CHN,3) 24-26 17-21

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth (INA)/ Rizki Amelia Pradipta (INA) 13-21 22-20 21-11

[R2] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,17)

[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (5) Ye Na Jang (KOR)/ So Young Kim (KOR)

Saina score dominating win inside 33 minutes against WR #9 Thai girl Porntip Buranaprasertsuk ... After winning the first game convincingly Saina has been more ruthless in the second ... In the second round she is facing Scottish girl Kirsty Gilmour.

Jwala-Ashwini continue with their excellent run ... They score comeback win after saving match point against WR #11 Indonesian pair ... After losing the first game Ashwini-Jwala were leading 19-16 but then Indonesian pair won next 4 points and had match point at 19-20 ... Jwala-Ashwini saved that and after winning this game they dominated the final game ... Next they r facing 5th seed Korean pair.

Other hand our remaining players lose their singles matches against respective opponents ... Sindhu stretch Yihan Wang to extra points in the first game and she had 3 game points but failed to win ... After winning the first game Yihan won the second game without much fuss ... Kashyap also miss big opportunity of scoring upset win over WR #4 Tago ... After winning the close first game Kashyap lose the second game easily ... In the final game both players were neck to neck but Kashyap missed a match point at 21-20 before losing the match in extra points ... Srikanth tried to create challenge to Chinese qualifier Yuekun ... After losing the first game easily Srikanth fightback to win the second ... But he failed to keep that momentum in the third.

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