Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals 2016, Kunshan, Jiantsu, China

Thomas Cup - Group B
India l Indonesia 0-5

[MS1] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,21) l Christie JONATAN (INA,19) 14-21 12-21
[MD1] Manu ATTRI (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l Angga PRATAMA (INA)/ Ricky Karanda SUWARDI (INA) 18-21 17-21
[MS2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,34) l Ginting ANTHONY (INA,23) 21-18 11-21 15-21
[MD2] Akshay DEWALKAR (IND)/ Satwiksairaj RANKIREDDY (IND) l Gideon Markus FERNALDI (INA)/ Hendra SETIAWAN (INA) 9-21 11-21
[MS3] Sourabh VARMA (IND,180) l Ihsan Maulana MUSTOFA (INA,31) 10-21 22-20 13-21

Uber Cup - Group D
India l Japan 2-3

[MS1] Saina NEHWAL (IND,8) bt Nozomi OKUHARA (JPN,5) 21-18 21-6
[MS2] V. Sindhu PUSARLA (IND,10) bt Akane YAMAGUCHI (JPN,11) 21-11 21-18
[MD1] Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Sikki Reddy NELAKURIHI (IND) l Misaki MATSUTOMO (JPN)/ Ayaka TAKAHASHI (JPN) 11-21 8-21
[MS3] Ruthvika Shivani GADDE (IND,113) l Sayaka SATO (JPN,12) 7-21 14-21
[MD2] Ashwini PONNAPPA (IND)/ V. Sindhu PUSARLA (IND) l Shizuka MATSUO/ Mami NAITO (JPN) 21-15 19-21 16-21

Our men's team lose one-sided match against strong Indonesian men ... This time also Sai and Sourabh give fighting performance in their losses against higher ranked opponents ... This is our men's team third loss in a row.

Our girls fail to overcome big test against Japanese team as they lose close match against them ... Saina and Sindhu started with solid wins against top Japanese team ... Our team used interesting strategy as they broke Jwala and Ashwini's partnership for this big tie ... Jwala-Sikki and Ruthvika lost their matches ... In the final match Ashwini partnered Sindhu, they started well winning the first game ... They failed to finish match in two games and then Japanese pair dominated the final game.

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