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At Women's Asian Championship 2017, Chennai, India

[R1] Urwashi Joshi (IND,UNR) l (16) Satomi Watanabe (JPN,136) 5-11, 10-12, 3-11 (26m)
[R1] (4) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND,22) bye
[R1] Sunayna Kuruvilla (IND,194) bt (12) Yura Choi (KOR,100) 11-4, 11-8, 11-8 (27m)
[R1] (9) Sachika Ingale (IND,82) l Aifa Azman (MAS,202) 7-11, 6-11, 11-7, 13-11, 11-13 (52m)
[R1] (2) Joshna Chinappa (IND,14) bye

[R2] (4) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND,22) bt (10) Andrea Lee (MAS,77) 14-12, 11-5, 11-5 (32m)
[R2] Sunayna Kuruvilla (IND,194) l (6) Tong Tsz-Wing (HKG,44) 6-11, 4-11, 6-11 (32m)
[R2] (2) Joshna Chinappa (IND,14) bt (13) Jemyca Aribado (PHI,103) 11-7, 11-9, 11-7 (31m)

[QF] (4) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND,22) bt (5) Liu Tsz-Ling (HKG,33) 11-3, 11-6, 11-6 (27m)
[QF] (2) Joshna Chinappa (IND,14) bt (7) Misaki Kobayashi (JPN,42) 11-7, 11-3, 9-11, 12-10 (35m)

[SF] (4) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND,22) vs (1) Annie Au (HKG)
[SF] (2) Joshna Chinappa (IND,14) vs (6) Tong Tsz-Wing (HKG,44)

Joshna and Dipika r in the semis with contrasing win in the quarters ... Dipika scored dominating win over WR #33 Liu Tsz-Ling and Joshan stretched to 4 games by WR #42 Misaki Kobayashi ... In the semis, Dipika is facing WR #11 Annie Au and Joshna is facing WR #44 Tong Tsz-Wing.

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At Men's Asian Championship 2017, Chennai, India

[R1] (15) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,95) bye
[R1] Velavan Senthilkumar (IND,428) bt Soheil Shameli (IRI,365) 11-1, 11-5, 11-5 (26m)
[R1] Aditya Jagtap (IND,UNR) bt Ryunosuke Tsukue (JPN,475) 9-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4 (55m)
[R1] (11) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,78) bye
[R1] (10) Vikram Malhotra (IND,70) bye
[R1] (2) Saurav Ghosal (IND,30) bye

[R2] (15) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,95) bt Reymark Begornia (PHI,475) 11-1, 11-5, 11-4
[R2] Velavan Senthilkumar (IND,428) bt (9) Farhan Zaman (PAK,54) w/o
[R2] Aditya Jagtap (IND,UNR) l (3) Nafiizwan Adnan (MAS,28) 5-11, 6-11, 8-11
[R2] (11) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,78) bt Vivian Rhamanan (SIN,195) 11-4, 11-7, 11-6
[R2] (10) Vikram Malhotra (IND,70) bt Alireza Shameli (IRI,335) 11-7, 11-8, 15-13
[R2] (2) Saurav Ghosal (IND,30) bt Benedict Chan (SIN,UNR) 11-2, 11-3, 11-5

[R3] (15) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,95) bt (6) Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi (QAT,40) 4-11, 11-6, 8-11, 11-6, 11-6 (59m)
[R3] Velavan Senthilkumar (IND,428) l (7) Ivan Yuen (MAS,37) 1-11, 1-11, 8-11 (22m)
[R3] (11) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,78) l (4) Yip Tsz Fung (HKG,32) 10-12, 11-8, 8-11, 3-11
[R3] (10) Vikram Malhotra (IND,70) bt Addeen Idrakie (MAS,121) 11-1, 11-4, 11-9 (27m)
[R3] (2) Saurav Ghosal (IND,30) bt Mohammad Al Sarraj (JOR,120) 11-8, 11-5, 11-2 (36m)

[QF] (15) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,95) l (1) Max Lee (HKG,16) 8-11, 9-11, 8-11 (42m)
[QF] (2) Saurav Ghosal (IND,30) bt (10) Vikram Malhotra (IND,70) 11-7, 11-7, 11-7 (35m)

[SF] (2) Saurav Ghosal (IND,30) vs (5) Leo Au (HKG,33)

As expected Saurav is in the semis ... In the quarters, he defeated his counterpart Vikram in straight games ... Harinder lost in the quarters but in the third round, he scored upset win over top-40 Qatar player Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi ... In the semis, Saurav is facing similar ranked Leo Au.