Thursday, November 20, 2014

Badminton News

At $350K Yonex-Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2014, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Superseries)

[R2] Srikanth Kidambi (IND,10) bt Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,29) 21-19 23-21
[R2] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Beiwen Zhang (USA,14) 21-16 21-13
[R2] (7) P V Sindhu (IND,10) l Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,48) 17-21 21-13 11-21

[QF] Srikanth Kidambi (IND,10) vs Wei Nan (HKG,21)
[QF] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs (6) Tai Tzu Ying (TPE,9)

After last week's China Superseries title win help Srikanth for entering into top-10 world ranking for the first time ... Saina also climb one place on #4 position.

Srikanth face tough fight from Thai Saensomboonsuk before winning in straight games ... In the first game Srikanth was leading 14-5 before Saensomboonsuk made a comeback and take 16-15 lead ... After that Srikanth recovered and won the first game after converting 3rd game point ... Similar story happened in the second game, Srikanth take 18-13 lead but again Saensomboonsuk tried comeback and had a game point at 20-19 ... Srikanth saved another game point at 21-20 before converting first match point ... In the quarter final he is facing Wei Nan.

Other hand Saina score comfortable straight games win over American top-15 player Beiwen Zhang ... In the quarter she is facing top-10 Taipei player Ying ... But surprising loss for Sindhu against very lowly ranked Japanese player Okuhara ... Sindhu made lots of unforced errors in this match.

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