Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Badminton News

At $750K The STAR Australian Open 2015, Sydney (Superseries)

[R1] (Q) R. M. V. Gurusaidutt (IND,45) l (1) Chen Long (CHN,1) 21-15 9-21 17-21
[R1] (4) K. Srikanth (IND,4) bt Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (DEN,14) 14-21 21-8 22-20
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,13) l (6) Wang Zhengming (CHN,7) 26-24 18-21 20-22

[R1] P. V. Sindhu (IND,12) l (8) Yihan Wang (CHN,8) 21-18 15-21 23-25
[R1] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,1) bt (Q) Cheah Lyddia Yi Yu (MAS,67) 21-12 21-10

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l Cai Yun (CHN)/ Kang Jun (CHN) 15-21 15-21
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Samantha Barning (NED)/ Iris Tabeling (NED) 21-13 21-13

[R1] (Q) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Choi Solgyu (KOR)/ Eom Hye Won (KOR) 19-21 14-21

[R2] (4) K. Srikanth (IND,4) vs Houwei Tian (CHN,10)

[R2] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,1) vs Sun Yu (CHN,9)

[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (4) Nitya Krishinda Maheswari (INA)/ Greysia Polii (INA)

We win three matches but overall really delightful performance by our players ... As expected Saina score dominating win over Malaysian qualifier ... Next she is facing tricky Chinese opponent Sun Yu.

Srikanth also start with a win in nail-biting match ... After losing first game Srikanth stormed into the second and won it losing only 8 points ... In the third Srikanth was doing catching game ... He was 15-20 down but afterwards Srikanth won next seven points to win this match after saving five match points ... Next he is having tough match against top-10 Chinese opponent Houwei Tian.

Jwala-Ashwini also start with a win against Dutch pair ... Next they r facing 4th seed Indonesian pair ... In MXD Ashwini lose with Pranaav against Korean pair.

In other singles matches our players give fighting performance in their losses ... Guru started with winning first game against WR #1 Chen Long but lost the second set easily ... In the third game he tried but Long proved better player than him ... Kashyap lost golden opportunity of beating Zhengming ... He won the close first game in extra points before losing the second to Zhengming ... In the third Kashyap was matching Zhengming and had 2 match points at 20-18 ... Kashyap failed to convert and Zhengming won 4 points in a row for victory ... Sindhu also started with winning the first game against Yihan Wang ... Wang won the second game comfortably ... In the decider both players were neck to neck ... Sindhu had a match point at 20-19 but after failing to convert she saved three match points before Wang converting 4th match point.

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