Saturday, June 17, 2017

Badminton News

At $1M BCA Indonesia Open 2017, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

[SF] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) l Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,47) 21-17 26-28 18-21
[SF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) bt (2) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1) 21-15 14-21 24-22

[F] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) vs Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,47)

Srikanth scored a huge upset win over current Korean WR #1 Wan Ho Son after saving 1 match point in 72 mins ... Srikanth started confidently and took early control for winning the first game comfortably ... In the second game also Srikanth was in control till 13-9 but after than Son raised his game and took advantage of some errors from Srikanth ... Son won it losing only 1 more point ... In the final game, both players were matching others game and were neck to neck ... Son had a match point at 19-20, but Srikanth saved that and then he had a couple of match points which Son saved ... Srikanth converted a third match point and book the final against Japanese Kazumasa Sakai.

Heartbreaking loss for Prannoy against Sakai in 76 mins ... After winning the first game Prannoy was falling behind in the second, from 15-18 he took 19-18 lead ... Prannoy had total 5 match points which he failed to convert before losing this game ... In the final game, Sakai took lead and he was leading 9-15 which Prannoy reduced to 17-18 but Sakai kept his nerve for converting 2nd match point.

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