Thursday, August 28, 2014

Badminton News

At Li Ning BWF World Championships 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark

[R3] Srikanth K. (IND,23) vs (2) Long Chen (CHN,2) 12-21
[R3] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt (13) Sayaka Takahashi (JPN,14) 14-21 21-18 21-12
[R3] (11) P V Sindhu (IND,12) bt (6) Yeon Ju Bae (KOR,5) 19-21 22-20 25-23

[R3] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l (2) Yong Dae Lee (KOR)/ Yeon Seong Yoo (KOR) 12-21 17-21

[QF] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) vs (1) Xuerui Li (CHN,1)
[QF] (11) P V Sindhu (IND,12) vs (2) Shixian Wang (CHN,2)

Saina and Sindhu score comeback win for entering into the quarters ... Saina lose the first game against Takahashi before recovering in the second game ... After winning the close second game Saina dominates final game ... Other hand Sindhu needs to dig deep for winning this match in 76 minutes ... After losing the first game Sindhu play catching game in the second game ... In the second game whenever she was falling behind she managed to catch Yeon ... From 18-20 Sindhu save 2 match points and win this game winning 4 points in a row ... In the final game Sindhu was falling behind but from 16-17 she won next 4 points and had 3 match points ... Yeon saved all those and then she saved 2 more at 21-20 and 22-21 ... Sindhu saved third match point at 22-23 ... Sindhu converted 6th match point for memorable win ... Next Saina and Sindhu r facing WR #1 Xuerui Li and WR #2 Shixian Wang.

Manu-Sumeeth give decent performance against WR #2 Korean pair.

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