Friday, January 26, 2018

Badminton News

At $350K DAIHATSU Indonesia Masters 2018, Jakarta (BWF World Tour Super 500)

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,30) l Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,21) 16-21 21-12 10-21
[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) l Wei Feng Chong (MAS,47) 18-21 18-21
[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,12) bt (7) Yufei Chen (CHN,8) 22-24 21-15 21-14
[R1] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Hanna Ramadini (INA,33) 21-13 21-10

[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt (8) Takuto Inoue (JPN)/ Yuki Kaneko (JPN) 21-15 21-17
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Ching Yao Lu (TPE)/ Po Han Yang (TPE) 18-21 21-16 16-21
Kidambi Srikanth (IND,4)

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,12) bt Xiaoxin Chen (CHN,20) 21-12 21-18
[R2] (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Jin Wei Goh (MAS,38) 21-12 21-9

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Min Chun Liao (TPE)/ Ching Heng Su (TPE) 21-17 21-16

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,12) bt (2) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) 21-13 21-19

[QF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt (4) Mads Conrad-Petersen (DEN)/ Mads Pieler Kolding (DEN) 23-21 15-21 21-19

[SF] Saina Nehwal (IND,12) vs (4) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,4)

[SF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (1) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (INA)/ Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA)

The BWF has renamed Superseries to 'World Tour Super 500' ... So 2018 season's first World Tour Super 500 tournament is played in Indonesia.

Saina has started with a bang ... She defeated her compatriot Sindhu in the straight games for entering into the semis ... And in the first 2 rounds, she defeated Chinese opponents, including a comeback win over top-10 Chinese girl, Yufei Chen ... In the semis, she will faced WR #4 Thai girl, Ratchanok Intanon.

Satwik-Chirag r in the semis with hard fought win over an experienced WR #6 Danish pair in three games ... In closely fought first game, they needed four game points for winning it ... In the second game, Danish pair took a control from the start for winning it comfortably ... In the final game, Danish pair opened 3 points advantage after 8-all ... Satwik-Chirag fought back from 12-16 to win next 5 points and from 19-all, they won next two points for a fighting win ... Before that, they started with a confident win over WR #10 Japanese pair in the first round and then defeated WR #17 Taipei pair in the second round ... In the semis, they r facing local favorite and WR #1 Gideon and Sukamuljo.

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