Badminton News

At $120K Bitburger Badminton Open 2016, Saarbrucken, Germany (Grand Prix Gold)

[R1] Siril Verma (IND,128) l (6) Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (INA,38) 17-21 16-21
[R1] Subhankar Dey (IND,117) l (5) Jonatan Christie (INA,21) 19-21 18-21
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,57) bt Rüdiger Gnedt (AUT,506) 21-16 21-11
[R1] (12) Sameer Verma (IND,44) bt Alexander Roovers (GER,317) 21-11 21-11
[R1] Tanvi Lad (IND,64) l Gayle Mahulette (FRA,108) 14-21 17-21
[R1] Ruthvika Shivani Gadde (IND,54) bt Soraya De Visch Eijbergen (FRA,147) 21-11 21-13

[R2] Sourabh Varma (IND,57) bt (14) Song Xue (CHN,43) 16-9 retd.
[R2] (12) Sameer Verma (IND,44) bt Eetu Heino (FIN,89) 21-10 21-16
[R2] Ruthvika Shivani Gadde (IND,54) l (1) Bingjiao He (CHN,10) 16-21 13-21

[R3] Sourabh Varma (IND,57) bt (6) Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (INA,38) 21-11 22-20
[R3] (12) Sameer Verma (IND,44) bt Kieran Merrilees (SCO,78) 21-17 21-17

[QF] Sourabh Varma (IND,57) bt (3) Marc Zwiebler (GER,13) 21-15 16-21 21-15
[QF] (12) Sameer Verma (IND,44) bt Artem Pochtarov (UKR,68) 21-14 21-16

[SF] Sourabh Varma (IND,57) vs (15) Anders Antonsen (DEN,39)
[SF] (12) Sameer Verma (IND,44) vs (4) Yuqi Shi (CHN,16)

Sourabh and Sameer r in the semis of Bitburger open ... In that both scored some impressive wins but I loved the most Sourabh's win over local favorite and experienced Marc Zwiebler.

On other note this week 16 yrs old Siril Verma becomes JR WR #1 in lastest BWF ranking.