Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Badminton News

At $325K YONEX Japan Open 2017, Tokyo, Japan (Superseries)

[R1] Sourabh Verma (IND,33) l (7) Lin Dan (CHN,3) 21-11 15-21 13-21
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,17) l (Q) Dong Keun Lee (KOR,50) 23-21 17-21 14-21
[R1] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) bt Tian Houwei (CHN,10) 21-15 12-21 21-11
[R1] Prannoy H.S. (IND,18) bt Anders Antonsen (DEN,15) 21-12 21-14
[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,25) bt (Q) Khosit Phetpradab (THA,32) 21-12 21-19

[R1] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) bt Minatsu Mitani (JPN,19) 12-21 21-15 21-17
[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,12) bt Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA,25) 21-17 21-9

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth B. Reddy (IND) l (8) Lee Jhe-Huei (TPE)/ Lee Yang (TPE) 18-21 15-21
[R1] (Q) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l (3) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (INA)/ Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA) 23-25 15-21
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (3) Ye Na Chang (KOR)/ So Hee Lee (KOR) 17-21 12-21

[R1] (Q) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Tinn Isriyanet (THA)/ Pacharapun Chochuwong (THA) 21-17 21-13

[R2] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) vs Yun Hu (HKG,28)
[R2] Prannoy H.S. (IND,18) vs Jen Hao Hsu (TPE,27)
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,25) vs (2) Yuqi Shi (CHN,4)

[R2] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) vs Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,9)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,12) vs (5) Carolina Marin (ESP,5)

[R2] (Q) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (4) Praveen Jordan (INA)/ Debby Susanto (INA)
[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (ND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs Yuki Kaneko (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN)

Young Satwik with Ashwin started with straight games win over Thai pair ... Next, they r facing top-10 Indonesian pair.

Srikanth scored a really good win against similar ranked Chinese opponent, Tian Houwei, in three games ... Next, he is facing Hong Kong player, Yun Hu ... Thumping straight games win by Prannoy against top-15 Danish player, Anders Antonsen ... Sameer also scored straight games win over his Thai opponent ... Next, Prannoy is facing Jen Hao Hsu and Sameer is facing tough challenge of WR #4 Chinese Yuqi Shi.

Saina started with a comfortable win over Thai girl ... Next match is between two former WR #1 as Saina is facing Carolina Marin ... Sindhu scored an excellent comeback win over local girl Mitani, but her next match is against current World Champion Nozomi Okuhara ... Last week in Korean open Sindhu defeated her but this time with local support Okuhara's challenge will be tougher.

Sourabh started dominantly against Lin Dan and won the first game comfortably but afterward, Lin Dan recovered and won next two games without much trouble ... Disappointing loss of Sai against Korean qualifier ... After winning the first game Sai failed to keep momentum.

Manu-Summeth lost in straight games against seeded Taipei pair ... Satwik and Chirag gave fighting performance against 3rd seed Indonesian pair in their loss ... Ashwini-Sikki failed to challenge 3rd seed Korean pair.

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