Thursday, October 26, 2017

Badminton News

At $325K YONEX French Open 2017, Paris, France (World Superseries)

[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,16) l Kenta Nishimoto (JPN,40) 13-21 17-21
[R2] Prannoy H.S. (IND,14) bt Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (DEN,25) 21-11 21-12
[R2] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) bt Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,15) 21-19 21-17

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,12) l (5) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,5) 9-21 13-21
[R2] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,2) bt Sayaka Takahashi (JPN,22) 21-14 21-13

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt (6) Denmark Mads Conard-Petersen (DEN)/ Mads Pieler Kolding (DEN) 22-20 12-21 21-19
[R2] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (1) Misaki Matsutomo (JPN)/ Ayaka Takahashi (JPN) 16-21 14-21

[QF] Prannoy H.S. (IND,12) vs Jeon Hyeok Jin (KOR,31)
[QF] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,4) vs (4) Shi Yuqi (CHN,6)

[QF] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,2) vs Chen Yufei (CHN,10)

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (2) Mathias Boe (DEN)/ Carsten Mogensen (DEN)

In the new updated ranking, as expected Srikanth is back in top-5 world ranking ... He is WR #4 and Prannoy is climbed to WR #12.

Srikanth scored closely fought the straight games win over Wong ... Next, he is facing Chinese Yuqi.
Sindhu scored dominating win over her Japanese opponent Takahashi and next, she is meeting Yufei.
Pranoy also scored dominating win over Vittinghus ... Next, he is meeting Korean Jin.
The win of the day was from young Satwik and Chirag against WR #6 Danis pair ... After winning the first game on extra points Satwik-Chirag lost the second cheaply ... In the third, they took 18-11 lead but Danish pair tried fightback and leveled at 19-all ... Satwik-Chirag won next 2 points for excellent win ... Next, they r having another tough WR #2 Danish pair.
Saina's strauggle against top player continues, as she lost one-sided match against Yamaguchi.
Sai lost in the straight games against lower ranked Japanese opponent.
Ashwini-Sikki failed to challenge WR #1 Japanese pair.

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