Badminton News

At $350K YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2018, New Delhi (BWF World Tour Super 500)

[R2] (Q) Kartikey Gulshan Kumar (IND,198) l Qiao Bin (CHN,35) 7-21 3-21
[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) bt (Q) Shreyansh Jaiswal (IND,167) 21-19 19-21 21-12
[R2] (8) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,15) bt Hu Yun (HKG,34) 21-10 21-15
[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,30) bt Tommy Sugiarto (INA,29) 21-18 19-21 21-17
[R2] (2) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,3) l Iskandar Zulkarnain (MAS,85) 19-21 17-21

[R2] (1) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Linda Zetchiri (BUL,40) 21-10 21-14
[R2] Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND,79) l (8) Beatriz Corrales (ESP,34) 19-21 16-21
[R2] (Q) Aakarshi Kashyap (IND,241) l (3) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,4) 11-21 12-21
[R2] Mugdha Agrey (IND,105) l (5) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10) 12-21 16-21
[R2] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,12) bt Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt (DEN,42) 21-12 21-11

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Adarsh Kumar (IND)/ Jagadish Yadav (IND) 21-7 21-13
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Chang Tak Ching (HKG)/ Hee Chun Mak (HKG) 21-18 21-14
[R1] (6) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Shenan Christian (IND)/ Riya Gajjar (IND) 21-9 21-11
[R1] (7) Meghana Jakkampudi (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) bt Saruni Sharma (IND)/ Mayuri Yadav (IND) 21-12 21-12
[R1] (8) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Hafiz Faizal (INA)/ Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja (INA) 16-21 21-17 21-17
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Raju Mohamed Rehan (IND)/ J. Anees Kowsar (IND) 21-9 21-10

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Tushar Sharma (IND)/ Chandrabhusan Tripathi (IND) 21-11 21-15
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l Chai Biao (CHN)/ Wang Zekang (CHN) 21-13 18-21 20-22
[R2] (6) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Megha Morchana Bora (IND)/ Sanghamitra Saikia (IND) 21-9 21-2
[R2] (7) Meghana Jakkampudi (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) bt Rutaparna Panda (IND)/ Mithula U K (IND) 21-12 21-18
[R2] (8) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Yogendran Khrishnan (MAS)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) 21-10 21-19
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt (3) Tan Kian Meng (MAS)/ Lai Pei Jing (MAS) 21-16 15-21 23-21

[QF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) vs Qiao Bin (CHN,35)
[QF] (8) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,15) vs (3) Chou Tien Chen (TPE,7)
[QF] Sameer Verma (IND,30) vs Iskandar Zulkarnain (MAS,85)

[QF] (1) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (8) Beatriz Corrales (ESP,34)
[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,12) vs (5) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10)

[QF] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs (1) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (INA)/ Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA)
[QF] (6) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs Du Yue (CHN)/ Li Yinhui (CHN)
[QF] (7) Meghana Jakkampudi (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) vs (2) Jongkolphan Kititharakul (THA)/ Rawinda Prajongjai (THA)
[QF] (8) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs Han Chengkai (CHN)/ Cao Tong Wei (CHN)
[QF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (5) Mathias Christiansen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN)

Srikanth lost in the straight games against Malaysian Zulkarnain, so he needs to work hard on his game and take as much match practice before All England Open ... Otherwise expected results for Indian players in the singles.

In the doubles, our to pairs in the quarters ... In MXD, Satwik and Ashwin scored an upset win over WR #11 Malaysian pair ... Our pair missed four match points from 20-16 and then saved a match point at 20-21 before converting the 5th match point ... In men's doubles, Satwik and Chirag missed a match point, 20-19, in the third game before losing the match.