Sunday, April 02, 2017

Badminton News

At $325K YONEX SUNRISE India Open 2017, New Delhi (SuperSeries)

[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt Arundhati Pantawane (IND,157) 21-17 21-6
[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Chia Hsin Lee (TPE,38) 21-10 21-17
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,38) bt (4) Son Wan Ho (KOR,5) 21-17 21-10

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt Saena Kawakami (JPN,87) 21-16 23-21
[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA,34) 21-10 21-17
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,38) bt Hu Yun (HKG,15) 21-17 21-15

[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) 21-16 22-20
[QF] Sameer Verma (IND,38) l Anders Antonsen (DEN,26) 22-24 19-21

[SF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt (2) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,4) 21-18 14-21 21-14

[F] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs (1) Carolina Marin (ESP,3)

Indian Superseries is going on in New Delhi ... Sindhu is in the final scoring upset win over WR #4 Korean Ji Hyun Sung ... The semis-final match was well contested as both players were trying different strategies ... Sindhu was trying to finish point early and Sung was trying to tired her opponent ... In the final, Sindhu is facing Marin so repeat of Rio final.

Before that Sindhu scored straight games win over Saina, showing who is currently top Indian player ... Other than Sindhi, only Saina and Sameer managed to reach quarter-final in this home SuperSeries ... Sameer scored two upset wins beating WR #5 Korean Son Wan Ho in the first round and WR #15 Hong Kong player Hu Yun in the second.

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