Sunday, November 15, 2015

Badminton News

At $700K China Open 2015, Fuzhou (Superseries Premier)

Women's Singles Final
(1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) l (6) Xuerui Li (CHN,7) 12-21 15-21

Saina loses her match easily against her nemesis Xuerui Li in 39 minutes ... In the first game Saina was up 4-1 but after that Xuerui won 6 points in a row to lead 4-7 and after that Xuerui kept increasing lead for winning it comfortably ... In the second game Saina started with 4-0 lead which she increased to 12-6 but Xuerui won next 7 points to catch Saina ... After 15-all Xuerui again won next 6 points to comple the victory ... Considering recent injury stricken performance of Saina we can say this was decent performance from Saina as she was defending lot of points as defending champion.

At BWF World Junior Championships 2015, Lima, Peru

[R1] Siril Verma (IND,450) bt Niels Veenstra (NED,1485) 21-7 21-9
[R2] Siril Verma (IND,450) bt Thomas Baures (FRA,772) 21-5 21-13
[R3] Siril Verma (IND,450) bt (9) Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA,161) 21-13 21-13
[R4] Siril Verma (IND,450) bt (3) Anders Antonsen (DEN,152) 21-12 18-21 21-15
[QF] Siril Verma (IND,450) bt (10) Satheishtharan R (MAS,625) 21-15 21-14
[SF] Siril Verma (IND,450) bt (14) Adulrach Namkul (THA,228) 21-15 21-14

[F] Siril Verma (IND,450) vs (6) Chia Hung Lu (TPE,106)

Siril Verma becomes first Indian boy to reach World Junior championship final ... Before this from Indian only Saina Nehwal won in 2008 and she was runner-up in 2006 ... Also Aparna Popat was runner-up n 1996.

Siril score upset win over four seeded players but in the final he is facing Taipei's Chia Hung Lu, he defeated Siril early this year at Asian championship.

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