Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2017, Glasgow, Scotland

[R2] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) bt Lucas Corvee (FRA,63) 21-9 21-17
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,29) l (16) Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,20) 20-22 9-21
[R2] (15) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) bt Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,26) 14-21 21-18 21-19
[R2] (13) Ajay Jayaram (IND,17) bt Mark Caljouw (NED,51) 21-13 21-18

[R2] Rituparna Das (IND,46) l (16) Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,27) 16-21 13-21
[R2] (12) Saina Nehwal (IND,16) bt Sabrina Jaquet (SUI,36) 21-11 21-12
[R2] Tanvi Lad (IND,93) l (2) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,3) 9-21 19-21

[R2] Sanjana Santosh (IND)/ Arathi Sara Sunil (IND) l (14) Yixin Bao (CHN)/ Xiaohan Yu (CHN) 14-21 15-21
[R2] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (2) Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN) 22-24 21-17 15-21

[R3] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) vs (14) Anders Antonsen (DEN,18)
[R2] (15) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) vs (6) Tien Chen Chou (TPE,4)
[R2] (13) Ajay Jayaram (IND,17) vs (5) Long Chen (CHN,8)

[R3] (12) Saina Nehwal (IND,16) vs (2) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,3)

Sai had tough match against Indonesian Ginting ... After losing the first game Sai dig deep and fought back for winning next two games to win this match after 72 mins ... Next, he is having another tough match against top-5 Taipei player, Tien Chen Chou ... Sai lost convincingly against Chou in both matches.

Srikanth scored a comfortable win over lowly ranked Frenchman ... Next, he is facing top-20 Danish player, Anders Antonsen ... Ajay also scored expected win over his Dutch opponent ... Next, having real test against Chinese former WR #1 Long Chen,.

Saina scored dominating win over Swiss girl Jaquet ... Next, she is having real test against former Korean WR #1 Ji Hyun Sung, who scored straight games win over Tanvi Lad.

Sameer stretched Rajiv in the first game but failed to challenge him in the second ... Rituparna also failed to challenge Kirsty in her straight games loss.

Sikki and Ashwini produced fighting performance against very experienced 2nd seed Danish pair ... In the first game, they saved 23 game points for 20-all and then had a game point for them ... But failed to win and then Danish pair converted 4th game point ... Indian pair won the second game and in the third, they were neck to neck with Danish pair ... 11-all and then 15-16 but from here Danish pair won 5 points in a row for completing victory ... Sanjana and Arathi lost in straight games against their Chinese opponents.

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