Badminton News

At BWF Sudirman Cup 2017, Gold Coast, Australia

Group 1D
(9/12) India l (2) Denmark 1-4

[XD] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND) l Joachim Fischer Nielsen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN) 15-21 21-16 17-21
[MS] Ajay Jayaram (IND,13) l Viktor Axelsen (DEN,3) 12-21 7-21
[MD] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Mathias Boe (DEN)/ Carsten Mogensen (DEN) 17-21 15-21
[WS] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) bt Line Kjærsfeldt (DEN,26) 21-18 21-6
[WD] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN) 21-18 15-21 21-23

Bad start for us, as we manged to win a single match against 2nd seed Denmark ... In the second match, Ajay lost one-sided match against Axelsen after Ashwini-Satwiksairaj lost in three games in MXD ... Our men's doubles pair lost in stright games against fancied Danish pair ... Sindhu scored expeted comfortable win against Danish girl ... Ashwini-Sikki started well after winning the first game ... Danish pair won the second game comfortably ... In the third, our pair tried hard, they saved 4 match points from 16-20 and had a match point at 21-20 but failed to convert ... Danish pair converted 5th match point for completing the win ... Next, in our last group match we r facing (5/8) ranked Indonesian team.