Badminton News

At $350K Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships 2016, Kowloon (Superseries)

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,43) bt Takuma Ueda (JPN,52) 22-20 21-18
[R1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,27) bt Qiao Bin (CHN,26) 21-16 21-18
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,23) bt Anthony Ginting (INA,39) 21-15 13-21 21-16
[R1] B. Sai Praneeth (IND,36) l (3) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,6) 18-21 18-21

[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) bt Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,12) 12-21 21-19 21-17
[R1] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,11) bt Susanta Yulia Yosephin (INA,119) 21-13 21-16

[R1] Manu Attri/ B. (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Soigyu Choi (KOR)/ Ko Sung Hyun (KOR) 15-21 8-21

[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,43) vs Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,59)
[R2] H.S. Prannoy (IND,27) vs Wei Feng Chong (MAS,51)
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,23) vs Yuxiang Huang (CHN,24)

[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) vs Sayaka Sato (JPN,14)
[R2] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,11) vs Ya Ching Hsu (TPE,28)

Last week Saina and Prannoy lost against same opponents but this week both managed to turn table against their respective opponent ... Saina scored her first win after operation beating Thai girl Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in comeback win after losing the first game ... Prannoy scored straight sets win over similar ranked Chinese opponent ... Sameer Verma also started with win against former top-15 Japanese Takuma Ueda ... Ajay needed three games for beating his Indonesian opponent ... Sindhu started with straight games win over Indonesian girl.