Thursday, March 15, 2018

Badminton News

At $1M YONEX All England Open 2018, Birmingham, England (BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[R2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,16) bt Tommy Sugiarto (INA,33) 21-10 21-19
[R2] (3) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,3) l Yuxiang Huang (CHN,42) 11-21 21-15 20-22

[R2] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Nitchaon Jindapol (THA,11) 21-13 13-21 21-18

[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l (2) Mathias Boe (DEN)/ Carsten Mogensen (DEN) 16-21 21-16 21-23
[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (2) Yilyu Wang (CHN)/ Dongping Huang (CHN) 6-21 10-21

[QF] Prannoy H. S. (IND,16) vs Yuxiang Huang (CHN,42)

[QF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (7) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,6)

Sindhu scored three games win over Jindapol for entering into the quarters ... Sindhu is facing Japanese Nozomi Okuhara, so we can expect another close match between these two.
Prannoy scored a comfortable straight games win over Sugiarto ... In the quarters, he is facing Huang.
Srikanth needs to blame himself for this loss against Huang ... After another slow start he fought back to win the second ... In the third game, both players were neck to neck before Huang took a lead ... Srikanth took a lead 18-16 from 13-16 down, he had two match points at 20-18 ... But he lost next 4 points to lose this match.
Another close loss for Satwik-Chirag against top Danish pair in three games ... After losing the first game our pair fought back for winning the second ... In the third game, both pairs were exchanging lead ... Danish pair had a match point at 19-20, which our pair saved and Satwik-Chirag had a match point ... But Danish pair saved it and converted 2nd match point.
Chinese pair proved too strong for Pranaav-Sikki.

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