Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Badminton News

At $600K Yonex French Open 2014 (Superseries Premier), Paris, France

[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,37) l Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,25) 10-21 11-21
[R1] H. S. Prannoy (IND,31) l Kento Momota (JPN,16) 11-21 21-15 20-22
[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,23) bt (Q) Dmytro Zavadsky (UKR,66) 21-10 21-14
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,28) bt (3) Kenichi Tago (JPN,4) 21-11 21-18
[R1] (8) P V Sindhu (IND,10) l Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,13) 21-12 18-21 16-21
[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt Sashina Vignes Waran (FRA,36) 21-16 21-9

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l (5) Xiaolong Liu (CHN)/ Zihan Qiu (CHN) 17-21 14-21
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) bt Li Junhui (CHN)/ Liu Yuchen (CHN) 23-21 17-21 21-16
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Eefje Muskens (NED)/ Selena Piek (NED) 18-21 21-16 21-14
[R1] (Q) Vladimir Ivanov (RUS)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt (Q) Keigo Sonoda (JPN)/ Shizuka Matsuo (JPN) 21-16 21-19

[R2] Srikanth K. (IND,23) vs (6) Hans-Kristian Vittinghus(DEN,10)
[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,28) vs Houwei Tian (CHN,14)
[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) vs Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,19)

[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs (3) Andrei Adistia (INA)/ Hendra Aprida Gunawan (INA)
[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Eefje (7) Xiaoli Wang (CHN)/ Yang (F) Yu (CHN)
[R2] (Q) Vladimir Ivanov (RUS)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (7) Lu Kai (CHN)/ Huang Yaqiong (CHN)

Kashyap score 2second win over top-5 player in a week time ... In French SuperSeries he beat Japanese WR #4 Kenichi Tago convincingly inside 34 minutes ... But next he is facing higher ranked Chinese opponent Houwei Tian .. Other hand easy expected win for Srikanth against qualifier ... Next he is facing top-10 Danish player.

Saina start with comfortable win over French girl in straight games .. Next she is facing Scottish girl Kirsty Gilmour ... But other hand Sindhu lose her match against similar ranked Thai Buranaprasertsuk ... After winning the first game Sindhu failed to keep momentum and Buranaprasertsuk take full advantage with winning next two.

Prannoy lose in three games against higher ranked Momota ... After losing the first game Prannoy fought back to win the second ... In the decider he saved 3 match points but Momota converted 4th one ... Sourabh fail to create much opposition against Rajiv.

Ashwini-Vladimir took advantage of weak draw for entering into the second round ... In the second round they r facing 7th ranked Chinese pair ... In women's doubles also Ashwini start with win partnering Jwala ... They scored comeback win over Dutch pair after losing first game ... They will also face 7th seed Chinese pair.

Pranaav-Akshay score impressive win over top-25 Chinese pair ... Pranaav-Akshay won the first game in extra points but Chinese pair fought back to win next game ... Pranaav-Akshay kept their nerve to win the final game ... Next they r facing 3rd seed Indonesian pair.

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