Badminton News

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

[QF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,55) l Qiao Bin (CHN,35) 16-21 18-21
[QF] (8) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,15) l (3) Chou Tien Chen (TPE,7) 15-21 13-21
[QF] Sameer Verma (IND,30) l Iskandar Zulkarnain (MAS,85) 17-21 14-21

[QF] (1) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) bt (8) Beatriz Corrales (ESP,34) 21-12 19-21 21-11
[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,12) l (5) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10) 10-21 13-21

[QF] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (1) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (INA)/ Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA) 19-21 19-21
[QF] (6) Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l Du Yue (CHN)/ Li Yinhui (CHN) 17-21 21-23
[QF] (7) Meghana Jakkampudi (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l (2) Jongkolphan Kititharakul (THA)/ Rawinda Prajongjai (THA) 10-21 15-21

[QF] (8) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) bt Han Chengkai (CHN)/ Cao Tong Wei (CHN) 21-8 21-13
[QF] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (5) Mathias Christiansen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN) 17-21 11-21

[SF] (1) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) vs (5) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10)

[SF] (8) Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) vs (5) Mathias Christiansen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN)

Only Sindhu in the singles and Pranaav-Sikki in MXD managed to win their quarter final matches ... Surprising losses of Sameer and Ashwini-Sikki against lower ranked opponents.