Friday, August 14, 2015

Badminton News

At BWF World Championships 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia

[QF] (11) P. V. Sindhu (IND,13) l (8) Ji Hyun SUNG (KOR,8) 17-21 21-19 16-21
[QF] (2) Saina NEHWAL (IND,2) bt (6) Yihan WANG (CHN,6) 21-15 19-21 21-19

[QF] (13) Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Ashwini PONNAPPA (IND) l Naoko FUKUMAN (JPN)/ Kurumi YONAO (JPN) 23-25 14-21

[SF] (2) Saina NEHWAL (IND,2) vs Lindaweni FANETRI (INA,29)

At last Saina wins her first World championship medal and hoping for yellow color medal ... As usual in entertaining match Saina beats her nemesis Yihan Wang in superb comeback victory in the third game ... In the first game both players were close to eachother but in later part of the game Saina opened 4 points lead 18-14 ... And won this game keeping that advantage ... In the second game Saina was keeping lead in early stage ... She was leading 13-9 but from here Yihan raised her game ... First she caught Saina at 13-all anf then took 13-16 lead ... Yihan kept that couple of points advantage for winning this game ... Yihan started final game positively and kept couple of points lead through beginning ... From 6-8 Saina made it 8-all ... Yihan regained lead 10-12 then 12-14 and 16-18 ... Saina caught her at 18-all and took lead first time at 19-18 ... From 19-all Saina won next two points for excellent win in 72 minutes ... In the semis Saina is facing unseeded Indonesian girl Lindaweni Fanetri, who beats WR #4 Taipei player Tzu Ying Tai.

Sindhu fails to show consistency and lose in three games against Ji Hyun Sung ... With that she also miss hat-trick of World championship medal ... In the first game both players were neck to neck till 13-all ... Ji Hyun won next 7 points in a row to lead 13-20 ... Sindhu saved four game points but order was tall and Ji Hyun won next point for winning this game ... In the second game also both players were close to eachother ... Sindhu had 3 game points at 20-17 and she converted third game point for taking match in the final game ... In the third game from beginning Sindhu was doing catching game ... Ji Hyun took 7-11 lead and kept that advantage for completing the victory.

For Jwala-Ashwini their Japanese opponents prove too strong as they lose their match in straight games ... In the first game they tried hard and saved four game points but Japanese pair won this game in extra points ... After that our pair failed to challenge Japanese pair in the second.

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