Saturday, October 28, 2017

Badminton News

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

[SF] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,4) bt Prannoy H.S. (IND,12) 14-21 21-19 21-18

[SF] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,2) l (5) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,5) 14-21 9-21

[F] (8) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,8) vs (Q) Kenta Nishimoto (JPN,40)

In this match also Srikanth started slowly as Prannoy won the first game easily ... In the second game, Srikanth took an early couple of points lead till 10-8, but after that Prannoy took lead ... He was leading 19-17 but Srikanth showed his fighting quality and won next 4 points for taking the match into the decider ... In the third game, both players were exchanging lead till 10-all ... Prannoy opened a couple of points lead from here and was leading 18-16 ... This time also Srikanth outsmarted him and won next five points to enter into another back to back Superseries final ... In the final, Srikanth is facing Japanese qualifier Kenta Nishimoto.

Yamaguchi continues to trouble Indian player ... In the semis, she defeated Sindhu comfortably in 37 mins ... In the first game, till 14-all both players were exchanging the lead ... But from here Yamaguchi won next 13 points and in that she won the first game and took 6-0 lead in the second ... Yamaguchi kept increasing the lead and in the end won this game easily

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