Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Badminton News

At BWF Sudirman Cup 2017, Gold Coast, Australia

Group 1D
(9/12) India bt (5/8) Indonesia 4-1

[XD] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND) bt Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja (INA) 22-20 17-21 21-19
[MS] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,26) bt Jonatan Christie (INA,28) 21-15 21-16
[MD] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (INA)/ Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA) 9-21 16-21
[WS] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) bt Fitriani Fitriani (INA,23) 21-8 21-19
[WD] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Della Destiara Haris (INA)/ Rosyita Eka Putri Sari (INA) 21-12 21-19

Indians completed victory after winning women's doubles, MXD and 2 singles for entering into the quarters (Group1) ... Ashwini was the a hero of this win as she was in mixed in our two important wins.

Ashwini has repeated or bettered her yesterday's performance with 16 yrs Satwiksairaj, as they scored an upset win over Indonesian pair in MXD in a closely fought match ... Srikanth scored comfortable straight games win over similar ranked Indonesian to give a 2-0 lead.

After that expected results, as our young doubles pair lost against WR #1 Indonesian pair but Sindhu scored straight games win over Fitriani. In the final match, Ashwini and Sikki scored superb straight games win over WR #15 Indonesian pair for our dominating win over Indonesian team.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow... Superb... keep going

Jay said...

Yes, really terrific performance by Ashwini with Satwiksairaj and Sikki for giving us important win.

Unknown said...

Hey, really its a big win for India and as a Indian we must support our country representatives as long as possible. Players like Saina Nehwal and Sindhu are making India proud.In recent badmintonupdates indians have emerged as winners in many occasions.

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