Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Badminton News

At $350K Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2015, Kowloon (Superseries)

[R1] (6) K. Srikanth (IND,5) l Houwei Tian (CHN,10) 16-21 21-15 22-24
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,25) l (1) Chen Long (CHN,1) 17-21 12-21
[R1] H. S. Prannoy (IND,21) l Kento Nishimoto (JPN,59) 15-21 21-18 6-21

[R1] PV. Sindhu (IND,13) l (1) Carolina Marin (ESP,1) 17-21 9-21

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (8) Kyun Eun Jung (KOR)/ Seung Chan Shin (KOR) 12-21 15-21

These were tough matches for our players in Hong Kong but wasn't expected all lose their first round matches.

Another heart breaking loss for Srikanth, who is in danger of soon finding himself outside top-10 ... In the first game from 10-all Houwei took control for winning it ... In the second game Srikanth took 4-1 lead and throughout maintained that advantage for winning it ... The third game was close one ...Srikanth was 0-4 down but crawl back to 3-4 and then from 8-10 Srikanth won next 6 points for sizable 14-10 lead ... After that Houwei came back to catch Srikanth on 14-all ... After that both players exchanged lead ... Srikanth save 1 match point at 19-20 and then Srikanth had match point at 21-20 but he failed to convert ... Srikanth saved another at 21-22 but failed to save third match point for losing this match in 73 minutes.

Sindhu and Ajay loses one-sided matches against their respective WR #1 opponents ... Prannoy had realistic chance but he also flattered in the third.

Another disappointing one sided loss for Jwala and Ashwini against Korean pair.

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