Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Badminton News

At $275K Yonex French Open 2015, Paris (Superseries)

[R1] (8) Kashyap PARUPALLI (IND,8) bt Thomas ROUXEL (FRA,55) 21-11 22-20
[R1] (5) K. Srikanth (IND,5) l Houwei TIAN (CHN,10) 15-21 21-13 11-21
[R1] H. S. Prannoy (IND,16) bt (3) Lin Dan (CHN,3) 14-21 21-11 21-17
[R1] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,26) bt Hans-Kristian VITTINGHUS (DEN,18) 21-18 18-21 21-18

[R1] Saina NEHWAL (IND,1) bt Michelle LI (CAN,15) 21-18 21-13
[R1] P.V. Sindhu (IND,13) l (4) Shixian WANG (CHN,5) 10-21 11-21

[R1] Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Ashwini PONNAPPA (IND)bt Jongkolphan KITITHARAKUL (THA)/ Rawinda PRAJONGJAI (THA) 21-15 21-12

[R2] (8) Kashyap PARUPALLI (IND,8) vs Rajiv OUSEPH (ENG,22)
[R2] H. S. Prannoy (IND,16) vs Ka Long Angus NG (HKG,29)
[R2] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,26) vs Houwei TIAN (CHN,10)

[R2] Saina NEHWAL (IND,1) vs Minatsu MITANI (JPN,18)

[R2] Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Ashwini PONNAPPA (IND) vs (8) Eefje MUSKENS (NED)/ Selena PIEK (NED)

Prannoy scored huge comeback upset win over multiple Olympics and World champion Super Dan in three games ... After losing first game Prannoy made strong comeback in the match ... In second game Prannoy took early lead of 5-2, which he increased to 14-9 and won this game winning last five points in a row ... In the decider Prannoy started with 7-0 lead ... Lin Dan tried fightback winning five points in a row from 14-10 to lead 14-15 ... But Prannoy recovered and won next four point to lead 18-15 ... And from 18-17 Prannoy won last three points for completing biggest win of his career in 71 minutes.

Other hand expected straight games win for Saina, Kashyap and Jwala-Ashwini ... Srikanth had a tough match against top-10 Chinese opponent but disappointed with his loss ... Next Saina is facing her nemesis Japanese girl Minatsi Mitani, Saina lose last two matches against her and last loss was at Denmark in last week.

Ajay scores tight three games victory over top-20 Danish player Hans-Kristian Vittinnghus.

Sindhu fail to repeat her last week's Danish open performance and lose her match cheaply against Shixian Wang.

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