Thursday, August 24, 2017

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2017, Glasgow, Scotland

[R3] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) bt (14) Anders Antonsen (DEN,18) 21-14 21-18
[R3] (15) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) l (6) Tien Chen Chou (TPE,4) 21-19 10-21 12-21
[R3] (13) Ajay Jayaram (IND,17) l (5) Long Chen (CHN,8) 11-21 10-21

[R3] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) bt (13) Ngan Yi Cheung (TPE,17) 19-21 23-21 21-17
[R3] (12) Saina Nehwal (IND,16) bt (2) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,3) 21-19 21-15

[R3] (15) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (ND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (7) Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Debby Susanto (INA) 24-22 18-21 18-21

[QF] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) vs (1) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1)

[QF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) vs (5) Yu Sun (CHN,6)
[QF] (12) Saina Nehwal (IND,16) vs (16) Kirsty Gilmour (SCO,31)

This was a huge win for Saina considering her recent struggle with form and inconsistency in her game ... In both games Saina was down early but she fought back to take control ... In the first game, Sung took 2-7 lead but Saina caught her at 8-all ... Sung again took lead 8-12 and then 13-17 but again Saina came back to catch her at 17-all ... And from 19-all Saina won next 2 points for winning the game ... In the second game, Sung again opened 4-8 lead, on break she was leading 7-11 ... But Saina won 4 points in a row from 10-12 to take a lead and from 15-14 she gave only one point to Sung for a good win ... Next, she is facing Scottish giant killer Kirsty Gilmour, who defeated Chinese top-10 player Bingjiao He in the previous round.

Another good win for Srikanth against talented young Danish player Antonsen in straight games ... Next, he is facing WR #1 Korean Wan Ho Son, in their last two meetings Srikanth managed to win.

Surprising struggled of Sindhu against Cheung ... She lost the first game against Cheung and then had 3 game points at 20-17 but Cheung saved those ... Cheung saved another at 21-20 but Sindhu converted 5th game point for taking the match into the final game ... In the final game, Sindhu was in the control from the start ... Cheung crawled back to 12-all from 12-8 down but still, Sindhu regained the lead ... She won this game comfortably and in the quarters meeting Chinese girl, Yu Sun.

Sai lost in three games against Chou after winning the first game ... Sai failed to challenge Chou in last two games ... Ajay lost one-sided match against Long Chen.

Another close loss for Sikki, this time in MXD ... In the first game, Sikki-Pranaav had a game point at 20-19 and in the end that turned crucial ... After losing the first game Sikki-Pranaav won the second game but Indonesian pair proved better in the final game.

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