Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Badminton News

At $600K Yonex Denmark Open 2014 (Superseries Premier), Odense

[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,23) bt Xue Song (CHN,59) 21-15 17-21 21-18
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,27) bt Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,29) 21-15 21-18
[R1] P V Sindhu (IND,10) bt Pui Yin Yip (HKG,22) 21-13 22-20
[R1] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt Karin Schnaase (GER,31) 12-21 21-10 21-12

[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Eefje Muskens (NED)/ Selena Piek (NED) 17-21 15-21
[R1] (Q) Vladimir Ivanov (RUS)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Yun Lung Chan (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG) 18-21 18-21

[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,27) vs Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,26)

Kashyap and Sindhu score comfortable wins in the first round ... Saina surprisingly stretch to three games by German Karin .. Saina started slowly against Karin, she take full advantage of Saina's error-prone game for winning first game ... But Saina recovered and won next two games comfortably for moving in next round ... Srikanth score fighting win against Chinese Xue Song ... This was tricky match as in their last meeting Srikanth lost against him ... Srikanth won the first game but Xue ofught back to win the second ... In the final game Srikanth and Xue were neck to neck till 8-all ... Xue won next 3 point for taking 11-8 lead but again Srikanth caught with him at 11-all ... Xue again take 15-12 lead but Srikanth won next 4 points for taking 16-15 lead ... Again Xue take 18-16 lead but Srikanth kept his cool and won next 5 points for fighting win in 71 minutes.

Ashwini-Ivanov fail to continue with their good run and lose their match against Hong Kong pair in close two games ... Ashwini losses her women's doubles match with Jwala against Dutch pair.

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