Saturday, April 15, 2017

Badminton News

At $350K OUE Singapore Open 2017, Singapore City (SuperSeries)

[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,30) bt Emil Holst (DEN,43) 17-21 21-7 21-19
[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,29) bt Kenta Nishimoto (JPN,74) 21-12 21-11
[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,10) 10-21 21-15 22-20

[R1] B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Venkat Gaurav Prasad (IND)/ Juhi Dewangan (IND) 21-13 21-14

[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,30) bt Bin Qiao (CHN,23) 21-15 21-23 21-16
[R2] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,29) bt Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (INA,39) 18-21 21-19 22-20
[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt Fitriani Fitriani (INA,27) 19-21 21-17 21-8

[R2] B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Jae Hwan Kim (KOR)/ So Hee Lee (KOR) 17-21 21-17 21-16

[QF] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,30) bt (8) Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA,11) 15-21 21-14 21-19
[QF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,29) bt (5) Yuqi Shi (CHN,8) 21-14 21-16
[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) l (4) Carolina Marin (ESP,2) 11-21 15-21

[QF] B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (3) Kai Lu (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN) 11-21 8-21

[SF] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,30) bt Dong Keun Lee (KOR,35) 21-6 21-8
[SF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,29) bt Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,26) 21-13 21-14

After poor Malaysian SuperSeries our players improved their performance in Singapore SuperSeries ... I think the first time we are seeing all Indian SuperSeries final.

Sai has reached in his first SuperSeries final with very dominating win over his Korean opponent Dong Keun Lee losing only 14 points ... Srikanth also joined him in the final with straight games win over Ginting ... Srikanth was 4-9 down in the first game before taking the control of the match.

Before that Sai and Srikanth reached in the semis with impressive wins over higher ranked opponents ... Srikanth defeated top-10 young Chinese Yuqi Shi convincingly in the quarters ... Sai also defeated top Thai player Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk in comeback win and before that he defeated top-25 Chinese opponent Bin Qiao.

Sindhu struggles in her first 2 matches before losing a one-sided match against Marin.

Sumeeth and Ashwini took the opportunity of a weak draw for reaching the quarter and lost easily against WR #2 Chinese pair ... Ashwini with Sikki reached in the second round of the doubles and took one game against current WR #1 Japanese pair.

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