Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Badminton News

At $700K TAHOE China Open 2017, Fuzhou (World Superseries Premier)

[R1] Sourabh Verma (IND,57) l Brice Leverdez (FRA,30) 14-21 21-15 11-21
[R1] Prannoy H.S. (IND,11) bt (Q) Dong Keun Lee (KOR,51) 18-21 21-16 21-19

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) bt Beiwen Zhang (USA,12) 21-12 21-13
[R1] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,2) bt Sayaka Sato (JPN,13) 24-22 23-21

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (1) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (INA)/ Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA) 18-21 15-21
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l (5) Liu Cheng (CHN)/ Zhang Nan (CHN) 13-21 13-21
[R1] Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Ha Na Baek (KOR)/ Chae Yoo Jung (KOR) 14-21 15-21

[R1] (Q) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Mathias Christiansen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN) 19-21 21-17 13-21

[R2] Prannoy H.S. (IND,11) vs Cheuk Yiu Lee (HKG,53)

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,11) vs (5) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,4)
[R2] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,2) vs (Q) Yue Hen (CHN,105)

Saina started with a confident win against similar ranked Zhang ... She dominated the match, but next, she is facing a tough match against in-form Japanese girl, Akane Yamaguchi, who defeated Saina three times in 2017 and last two losses were in the last month in Denmark and French Superseries.

Experienced Dong Keun Lee stretched Prannoy for a long match, which ended after almost 90 mins ... After losing the first game Prannoy required digging deep for making comeback in the match ... Lee kept fighting in the third game but Prannoy prevailed ... Next, he is facing Hong Kong's Cheuk Yiu Lee.

Sindhu got stretched by her Japanese opponent, Sayaka Sato ... Both games won by Sindhu on extra points, in the second game she needed to save one game point ... Next, she is facing Chinese qualifier.

Sourabh lost in three games against Frenchman Leverdez.

Satwik and Ashwini gave fighting performance against higher ranked Danish pair but lost in three games.

Manu-Sumeeth gave decent performance against WR #1 Indonesian pair ... Chinese WR #4 pair proved too strong to Satwik and Chirag ... Ashwini-Sikki also failed to challenge their Korean opponents.

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